On Sunday, February 2nd, a devastating avalanche struck the off-piste area of Puy-Saint-Vincent (Hautes-Alpes) around 1:30 PM, involving three skiers.

Getting Your Bearings Most of the routes in our hiking section stick to the beaten track, even if some of the tracks are less beaten than others. A detailed map on a scale of 1:25,000 is essential for both planning and route finding. Main walking paths are well marked in France but may of the more interesting routes on PisteHors .com are poorly marked and …

Once seen as highly specialized downhill tools a high-end fully suspended mountain bike equipped with hydraulic disk brakes weighs about the same as a high performance rigid from a decade ago – about 12kg. However the performance on difficult and steep terrain is unrivalled.

Sep 11, 2013 · Post your ski and snowboard touring trips, off piste days, hike and mountain biking reports.

Everything you want to know about backcountry snowboarding and skiing, avoiding avalanches, finding fresh powder and buying the right ski and snowboard gear, sport: sking, sport:snowboarding

Important Note About Guides The primary role of a guide is to enable you to go off-piste in relative safety allowing clients to enter terrain otherwise inaccessible to them. Of course they can also provide advice about ski technique and backcountry travel. To learn to ski off-piste you should contact a ski school or instructor.

Snow Report After a very warm start to the month with temperatures reaching around 20C in the valleys a weather front passed over the north of the Alps, Jura and Vosges leaving around 30cm of fresh snow.

The somewhat stodgy world of Ski Touring eventually caught up and today there is a wide range of performant skis to suit most tastes. When making day tours over 1000 meters or multiday trips weight is an important factor. A pure touring ski should ideally weigh around 2.5 kg (5.5lbs) with the lightest competition skis tipping the scales at under 2kg …

Approach skis or mini skis are short skis that are fitted with a special binding and are fitted with climbing skins. They are used to climb to off-piste routes over difficult snow conditions and can generally be used on steeper terrain than snowshoes. …

Ski-Areas > Northern Alps > Savoie (73) > Tarentaise > La Plagne > La Plagne Off Piste La Plagne has a reputation as the definitive resort for intermediates with long gentle reds and blues. Curiously the resort brochure does not contain a single picture of anyone skiing on-piste and only one of a ski lift! Maybe this is not surprising as only the …