Beginner ski touring

Four Saturdays in February to start ski touring and learn to plan your trips!

Ski touring is one of the most beautiful ways to experience the mountains in winter: you climb with your own strength, you choose your own track, you descend in the snow far from the slopes. It is also an activity that requires precise knowledge. The snow changes, the terrain changes, and knowing how to read both is what turns a beautiful day into a safe experience.

This course is the starting point. There are four Saturdays in February, to learn the basics: snow and avalanche rescue, the ascent and descent technique, planning a trip. The goal of the last Saturday is to become independent in planning a ski touring trip.

What do you learn in a basic course?

A basic course aims to teach the fundamental techniques of ski touring, from planning the trip to choosing equipment, up to climbing techniques on terrain with a slope of up to 30°. They are the basis on which everything else is built, including the more challenging trips that we will face later.

Where?

The course does not have a fixed location. Every Saturday we go where the conditions are best at that time, gravitating around the Val di Susa, the Briançonnais, Prali and the Cuneo area. The choice is made in the previous days, looking at the avalanche report, weather forecast and snow conditions, and it is already part of the learning process: I'll show you how to think about choosing where to go and where not.