Ski touring in the Maritime Alps

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Enter your start date, end date and number of people and we will check availability and prices for you. The recommended duration for this activity is between 1 and 6 days. However, you can book as many days as suits your requirements. If your group size is more than 5 please contact us for a bespoke quote. Special prices for families and children: please contact us.

Highlights

Location : The Maritime Alps

Ratio : 1:5

Available during : Jan, Feb, Mar

Ski touring in Val Maira and Val Stura
No lifts, no crowds, no discoteques
Excellent Italian food and wine
Small family run boutique hotels
Hundreds of itineraries for all levels

Full Description

Italy has many beautiful ski touring areas that offer fantastic skiing, hospitable ski in ski out hotels, Italian food and wine, great value. You can choose the destination or we can suggest the best location based on the best conditions at the moment. As well as the Adamello Glacier trip, Val Maira and Val Stura in the Italian Maritime Alps is an area that you can not miss.

Val Maira is a paradise for ski touring. Until a few years ago no one had heard about these valleys that border with the French Maritime Alps. When Bruno Rosano, a local ski touring enthusiast, wrote a book about the area, the outside world discovered this magical hidden place. Don't expect ski lifts, ski slopes or après-ski pubs! Instead, you will have over 130 ski touring itineraries to discover combined with superb Italian food, wine and hospitality. Technically Val Maira is in the Italian region of Piemonte (Piedmont), home to great cuisine tradition and world class wines such as Nebbiolo, Barbaresco and Barolo.

Contact us to organise your ski touring trip in the Maritime Alps. Don't expect anything off the shelf, we only do tailor made trips.

Example Itinerary

It is for you and your guide to decide the exact makeup of your booking however, these itinerary days shown below are an example of how a booking for this activity could be structured.

Day 1 - Arrival day	We will meet you at one of the following airports: Nice, Genova, Torino, Milan. Drive to Val Maira and hotel check-in. Briefing for the week to come, equipment check and dinner.
Day 2 and following days	Each day we will choose a ski touring trip based on the snow conditions, weather forecast and group ability. We will be skiing between 1500 and 2800 metres above sea level and daily ascent/descent is between 800 and 1200 metres.

What's Included

Services of IFMGA Mountain Guide
Liability insurance

What's Not Included

All food  and drinks for clients and guides
Travel, accident and cancellation insurance for clients
Hut costs for clients and Guides
Guides travel expences
Cable cars and ski lifts for clients and guides

Optional Extras

Accommodation (more info)
Transfers (more info)
Ski touring equipment  (more info)

Prerequisites

You are a confident off-piste skier, used to ski on black runs on the ski slopes and on all types of snow off-piste. You should be in good physical shape and be able to ski tour up hill for 3-4 hours at altitude.

Equipment Required

Technical equipment: ski touring skis, ski touring boots, climbing skins, ski crampons, poles, avalanche transceiver, shovel, probe, boot crampons, ice axe, harness, daisy chain or 120cm dyneema sling with screw gate carabineer.

Personal equipment: 30 litre backpack, 1 litre thermos, provisions for during the day (energy bars, chocolate, dried fruit, sandwiches), first aid kit, sun glasses (protection factor 3 or 4), goggles, gore-tex jacket and overpants, windstopper vest, ski touring pants, fleece jacket, breathable base layers, lightweight gloves, thick gloves or mittens, wool hat, bandana, sun screen factor 50.

Availability & Prices

This activity is available to be booked for any date/dates within the availablity periods shown below. Because we tailor your booking to suit your exact requirements you can book this activity for as many days as you like. The recommended duration for this activity is between 1 and 6 days. If your group size is more than 5 please contact us for a bespoke quote. Special prices for families and children: please contact us.

Period	Starting	Ending
Availability period	from : 01/01/2024	to : 30/03/2024

Number of people	Price (€)
1 Pax	€350.00 per person per day
2 Pax	€175.00 per person per day
3 Pax	€133.33 per person per day
4 Pax	€112.50 per person per day
5 Pax	€100.00 per person per day