Enjoy free-ride : secret spots of the 3 Vallées, 5 mornings

OFF-PISTE FREE-RIDE

Learn to ski off-piste in Les Ménuires-St Martin or Méribel or Val Thorens, discover backcountry ski or off-piste skiing, or learn more and improve your skiing level with us!

We adapt our teaching to your level.
If you are already more than an intermediate skier, we’ll also teach you HOW to understand and use the terrain.

Teaching contents:
• ski technique
• skilled skiers: where to turn depending on the kind of snow; when and where use   COMPRESSION TURNS or jumped turns better then classic turns/ How to use less energy to ski = how to understand (: to read”) the terrain and use it.
• avalanche searching exercises (introduction and more!) + How to make ski a group with maximum safety, depending on the number of participants
What must be the behaviour of every skier in dangerous or potential avalanche terrain?
• couloirs skiing or snowboarding

We are really motivated and skilled ski teachers, able to teach you in 8 different languages (English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, german, RUSSIAN…); we aim to make you improve your technique and to help you as much as possible with analytical and technical tips, so as you spend the best holidays and have FUN while improving your skiing!

From St Martin or MERIBEL or from les Menuires/Val Thorens, discover the unlimited snowfields of Three Valleys- Les 3 Vallées. We adapt pour way of teaching to your skills. Moreover we make you ski a lot but also we help you improve your powder and off-piste level, even doing clinics days and VIDEO corrections.

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Level

4 levels :

Introduction to off-piste: You must be able to ski everywhere on pistes,even though you don’t feel comfortable on black runs. Come with wider skis (minimum 90 mm waist).
We will ski in ST Martin- Riondaz BUT ALSO: Vallons du Lou, Vallée des Encombres,

Intermediate skiers: Easy off-pistes but you need to have an intermediate level in off-piste and ski-touring. Big easy (or not easy on demand!!) off-piste runs of 3 Vallées : Mont Vallon, La Masse, Pierre Lory, big vertical drop descents to Beaune or to other Maurienne places (minimum 1700 m vertical height)….…

Advanced level : You are experienced in off-piste. Off-piste runs we can do: All the classic off-piste routes of Méribel 6 Val Thorens 3 Vallées, including from top of La Masse + Combe sans nom + Le Clocher south run + All the easy long descents to Le Thyl, Beaune, to Maurienne…. Eventually the Vallée des Avals…; N couloir de la Becca and couloirs de Tougne, etc etc.

Expert level

We are really motivated and skilled ski teachers, able to teach you in 8 different languages (English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, german, RUSSIAN…); we aim to make you improve your technique and to help you as much as possible with analytical and technical tips, so as you spend the best holidays and have FUN while improving your skiing!

Group

4 to 7 participants

Duration

Stage / course of 4 or 5 mornings

Guiding and teaching by

a skilled ski instructor or an UIAGM ski and mountain guide.
Most of our tours, ski-tours and courses are coached-guided by UIAGM ski and mountain guides of Savoie Mont-Blanc

Period

Every week from early December to mid-May,

Price

Stage / course of 5 mornings: 600 euros per person (minimum 4 participants);

Course 4 mornings: 500 euros per person (minimum 4 participants);

Experienced in off-piste you like to ski minimum 7000 m vertical height per day in powder; you are able able to do turns everywhere & are sometimes keen to ski couloirs.

Our program depending on conditions : Couloirs Vallée des Avals…Couloirs de Caron, Couloirs de la Saulire, le Canyon, Valdez, or Petit Valdez…

We will provide and lend you: DVA transceivers, shovels, probes, harnesses , and rucksacks on demand (and walking crampons for going down the ridge).

Our price includes only: guiding-ski coaching, the loan of collective safety gear like a DVA transceiver for each of you, a shovel, a probe, (a harness if necessary).

Doesn’t include: skis and personal gear rental, the insurance (R.C. + rescue), the possible fares in taxis, ski-passes (if any needed), and gear/skis rental at your own expenses 

We are able to run this off-piste course everywhere in the ALPS: possible also from: Méribel, Tignes-Val d’Isère, Sainte-Foy Tarentaise, La Plagne, Les Arcs, La Rosière…

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