Sample Programme

Sunday

The course starts with a briefing at 6.45pm at the Tour D'Ai hotel in Leysin. This is a chance for you to meet your team mates and Guide and go through the details of the course. There will also be time for you to sort out any equipment you need and for you to ask questions. Dinner will follow the briefing.

Monday

An instructional day on piste, skiing in the Leysin ski resort. Leysin has an extensive network of pisted runs and we'll start to develop your ski technique for a variety of different terrains, which will give us an important foundation to build on for the rest of the week.

Tuesday

A short taxi ride to the village of Les Mosses gives us a whole new ski area to explore and the chance to further develop your ski technique on the piste, whilst looking at some of the techniques required for skiing off-piste. An essential part of this second day is understanding some of the dangers when skiing off-piste and we start to look at the snow pack and introduce the use of avalanche transceivers with a practical hands-on session to become familiar with them.

Wednesday - Friday

We will continue to develop your off-piste ski technique, your understanding of how the weather conditions affect the snow pack and your own personal safety when skiing off-piste. This will develop throughout the week with time spent skiing both on and off the piste at a number of different resorts on different aspects of slopes so you gain a good knowledge of the different snow conditions and how to ski them. We will have access not only to Leysin and Les Mosses, but also Diablerets which is known for its amazing off-piste ski runs, La Lecherette and Villars. This will give you a great spread of days throughout your week to really develop your off-piste ski technique.

Saturday

Breakfast at the hotel before departing.

Note: the resorts and venues throughout the week may be changed to make the most of the weather and snow conditions.

Maps: Rochers de Naye 262 s 1:50 000 St Maurice 272s 1:50 000