Freeride school
Ski-tour school

Ski-tour school
Ski touring offers freeriders excellent opportunities to ride in completely new far off locations! Untouched deep snow has never been so close! Goals: Teaching the ski tour ascend techniques, teaching to use ski touring gear and take care of it, improving avalanche sensor operation skills, studying and analyzing snowpack, selecting safe lines of ascend and descend. Audience: confident skiers and snowboarders with previous backcountry riding experience. As freeride is becoming increasingly popular, those who prefer wild lands have to move further and further away from well-known tourist destinations. This is where ski touring and split board gear comes in. It helps you move not only faster, but also easier. At ski tour school, you will learn to use specialized gear. We will thoroughly study the structure of snow and avalanche risk assessment methods. You will acquire hands-on experience of selecting ascend lines and putting knowledge of mountain relief into practice. And, what’s most important, we will spend every day in a new location, finding new ski touring and freeriding opportunities. Program cost includes: two experienced instructors/guides assisting the group, rental of individual avalanche gear (avalanche sensor, shovel and probe), transfers. Scope of the program: improving riding technique; basics of avalanche safety; avalanche rescue; organization and tactics of riding on avalanche […]

Khorisar Backountry Camp 2018
Khorisar Backountry Camp – backcountry camp in the area around Khorisar volcano (Main Caucasus Range, Georgia). Dates: 01.04.2018–07.04.2018 Program: 2 days of skitour/freeride at the resort + 5 days of full-time ski-tour and riding at one of the best spots around Gudauri Pricing: $550 What’s included in the price: 7 days of guide service; Accompaniment by organizers from the start of deployment to the camp to the end of camp; Сonsultations on any administrative and other issues, information support; Сamp stuff (meal, gas, “kitchen” tent) is transported by organizers; General camp equipment (Common expedition tent for eating and heating, prepared places for tents); Three times per day meal during camp (Breakfast, supper and snacks during the day); Gas for cooking; Transfer Gudauri – Khorisar – Gudauri; 3 days of accommodation in Wildguru hostel; Common medical kit and equipment repair kit; Celebration party on the last day. Backcountry Camp Khorisar-2017 (PHOTOS) You can read a report about Khorisar-2016 here. Requirements for participants Confident level of off-piste riding; Skitour experience; Good physical fit; Good skills in an avalanche gear; Special extreme medical insurance for the camp period 01.04.18 – 07.04.18 Location and weather A huge lava cone of the Small Khorisar peak created a unique location near […]