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Off piste skiingFor us skiing is skiing off-piste. On all our trips are you always with a certified UIAGM/IFMGA mountain guide, in a small group of skiers who are all there for the same reason. To ski off piste and enjoy the mountains on all different sides. |
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![]() Best Skiing at the Moment - WeekWe often get asked about the best off-piste in the Alps - Where is the best snow and what our favourite resort is? All good questions but the best off-piste is not so much about a particular resort but rather where it has been snowing the most lately. This is the trip that takes you to where the snow is the deepest right now! | ![]() Best Skiing at the Moment - WeekendOur Best Selling trip to the Alps - Now as Weekend! We often get asked about the best off-piste in the Alps - Where is the best snow and what our favourite resort is? All good questions but the best off-piste is not so much about a particular resort but rather where it has been snowing the most lately. This is the trip that takes you to where the snow is the deepest right now! | ![]() Off pist skiing in Japan - Powder, Sushi and OnsenPowder, good food, bathing in natural hot springs and ski adventure in the beautiful woods is what awaits us at Hokkaido in Japan. Hokkaido is the northern island of Japan, thanks to cold winds from Siberia and northern China, there are incredible amounts of snow every winter. Statistics show that it snows around 15m per season. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
![]() Arctic Combo Week Riksgränsen - Heli ski, Off-Piste Skiing and Ski touring - accomodation in lodge by the fjordFive days of skiing with a mountain guide who will find you the best snow. We are based in Riksgränsen during the week. For one day you will explore, on your own, what the Narvik skiarea has to offer; classic ski land that must be examined! During the week we will have one day with Heliskiiing. | ![]() Chile Powder tour, South AmericaWinter in the summer time!South America, is something quite different. Since it is in the southern hemisphere it's winter when we have summer. Add to this the Andes mountain range which runs along South America's Pacific coast, through Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina and ends in the far south of Cape Horn. In total it's 7500 km long, making it the world's longest mountain range. | ![]() Off Piste Skiing in La Grave, FranceOne mountain, one lift, no piste.The ultimate off-piste skiing challenge begins in La Grave. There's one big mountain with one lift on the border to a national park. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
![]() Avalanche courseInformation about this course is not available in English. Please contact us at info@mountainguide.se if you have any questions. | ![]() Big Mountain Powder Skiing in Russia!Ever been to Russia? Know anyone who has? For skiing? Did you know that the Caucasus mountain range is like the extremer part of the Alps, but one notch up. Runs are long, steep and complex - glaciers, couloirs and skinning is part of the game when skiing on Elbrus, Europe’s highest mountain 5642m.
| ![]() Off piste skiing in Iran - Adventure skiing in different culture and great mountainsThere are two mountain chains in Iran, the Alborz Mountains and the Zagros Mountains. Our trips go to the Alborz Mountains offering many peaks over 4.000 m. The highest lift goes up to 3.960m and offers a vertical from 1.000-2.000m.As if this wasn’t enough the terrain is excellent for ski touring and by doing short walks from the top of the lift we can reach amazing skiing. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
![]() Powder Skiing in Gulmarg - Himalayas, Kashmir, IndiaGulmarg is a unique ski resort in Kashmir, India. There is a lift that goes to 4000 meters above sea level and no groomers. The village itself is situated among rolling meadows high on a plateau at 2700 meters. | ![]() SLAO Avalanche 1 CourseThe SLAO Avalanche 1 Course is currently only available in Swedish. If you would like to have this course in English please contact us. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ski touring |
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![]() Haute Route ski tour from Chamonix to ZermattThe Haute Route is a multi-day ski tour from Chamonix to Zermatt.This classic journey was first completed as a glacier trek in the summer of 1861 by members of the Alpine Club. They named it the High Level Route.The name was translated into French and became commonly known as the Haute Route when it was first successfully undertaken on skis in 1911. | ![]() Ski touring on nameless peaks - Kebnekaise, SwedenIf you wish to go somewhere to impress people in the bar by namedropping this is not the trip for you. Many of the mountains in this area do not even have a name on the maps of today. If you do look at older maps the peaks have names, beautiful, old lapp names, but we doubt that they are known to man. | ![]() Arctic Combo Week Riksgränsen - Heli ski, Off-Piste Skiing and Ski touring - accomodation in lodge by the fjordFive days of skiing with a mountain guide who will find you the best snow. We are based in Riksgränsen during the week. For one day you will explore, on your own, what the Narvik skiarea has to offer; classic ski land that must be examined! During the week we will have one day with Heliskiiing. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
![]() Ski touring course week around Riksgränsen and NarvikSki touring is a wonderful combination of beautiful views, the stillness of being in the mountains and the action of downhill skiing. The skills you need, to go on ski tours in a convenient and secure way, are very extensive. You need both personal skills of skiing, general knowledge of navigation and path choosing as well as specific knowledge of for example avalanche security. In short, there are a lot of funny things to learn and on this course we enter deeply into the above. The goal of the week is to learn more about ski touring and have amazing experiences in an extraordinary environment. | ![]() Ski Touring in Lyngen, NorwayFar up in the northern part of Norway there is a peninsula called Lyngen. On this peninsula, and on the islands around, beautiful mountains rise out of the ocean and give us great opportunities for ski touring. The view over the fjords is indescribable and the shapes of the mountains offer superb skiing. | ![]() Sailing and Ski Touring in Lyngen, NorwaySail and ski! Join the powder ship and sail around Lyngen for different ski tours. You can not get closer to nature and its elements than this. The Sail boat will take us to the mountains, uphill we go on skins and downhill we enjoy great skiing. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
![]() Sarek winter - Dog sled assisted ski touring expeditionThis trip in Europe’s last wilderness is our most demanding ski touring itinerary. In Sarek there is nothing and everything. No trails, no huts, no motor vehicles, no people, no help. | ![]() Avalanche courseInformation about this course is not available in English. Please contact us at info@mountainguide.se if you have any questions. | ![]() Ski touring in the land of the midnight sun - Riksgränsen, Abisko and NarvikMidnight sun, we are above the polar circle and the sun never sets. Evenings and nights it colours the mountains in red, pink, purple and a thousand different shades in between. The snow stays on these peaks until June and allows a long skiing season. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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