Lots of snow finally arrived in the Northern Alps, in Abruzzo and all the way down to Mount Etna in Sicily. Unfortunately in the South of the Alps, including the Dolomites,it’s been still very cold and dry. Last Saturday I was back on the road to Piemonte, for a 3 day off-piste skiing and ski touring around Sestriere and the…
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December, ski touring to the Col d’Argentière and climbing in the Dolomites. Diedro Dall’Oglio on Cima del Lago and Campanile di Val Montanaia normal route.
This has been the second december in a row without snow. Just a matter of bad luck? A cycle or is it been all because of the climate change? I think it’s a bit of everything. The high pressure is still strong in Europe and in the Alps, it’s been three weeks already with beautiful days from sunrise to sunset,…
WHEN: from December to May COST (VAT included): € 310 pp per day, with an increase of 10% per participant up to 4 people per group. INCLUDED: guide service, avalanche transceivers. From December until the end of May I arrange private ski touring guided day trips in all the mountain ranges of the Dolomites, from the Odle to Sassolungo, the…
After all the snowfalls we had here in the Dolomites at the beginning of November, I can say we are going to have an epic winter season 19-20 here in Southern Alps. All the ski touring and off piste enthusiasts have been skiing every possible lines in the mountains thanks to the exceptional snow conditions and a very stable snowpack….
If you ask to somebody “Do you know the Haute Route?” everybody knows what you’re talking about. The Haute Route from Chamonix to Zermatt is by far the most famous ski touring trip in the world, it’s a hut-to-hut ski trip around the most amazing glaciers of the Western Alps. You start in the Mont Blanc massif and finish the ski…
It’s december already and the snow situation in the Dolomites reminds me a lot last year, only the high peaks painted in white have given a sort of winter look so far. The foehn wind from last week blew strongly in Marmolada, the only spot where it’s been possible to go ski touring, and the snowpack is not enjoyable anymore. Yesterday we…
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February and March Off piste skiing and ski touring in the Dolomites. Valscura couloir on Sassongher, Holzer couloir, skiing around Arabba, Marmolada and the Sella Massif. Ski touring around Puez and Monte Pelmo.
February and March are the perfect months for off piste skiing and ski touring. In the Dolomites we didn’t have other huge snowfalls after the one on the day after Christmas, but we had many little dumps which were perfect to build the layer up and cover the old tracks. The conditions for couloir skiing were already good in mid-January,…
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January, ski touring, off-piste and steep skiing in the Dolomites. Costabella on Cristallo, forcella di Colfiedo ski traverse, Arabba, gruppo del Puez, Val delle Fontane and Holzer Couloir on Sella group.
After ten days of perfect weather the strong wind “finally” showed up for several days in the Dolomites, making our lives tough to find safe ski itineraries with good snow. Some hidden valleys remained protected by the wind, couloirs got back into good shapes, mostly all the open bowls became smooth hard packed, like the Val Mesdì which was very…