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Monte Viso Ski Tour

"The Monte Viso tour is renowned as one of the finest multiday ski tours in Europe, circumnavigating the most famous peak in the Southern Alps. Tucked away at the back of the Queyras National Park, this is a wild and remote region with unparalleled scenery and great skiing."
  
6 days
Inter-Adv
6:1
Dates: By Arrangement
Price: Private Guiding Rates
Ski Ability: 3+
Fitness: 3-4
Experience: You need some previous multiday ski touring experience to join this tour.
Included: Guiding Fees.
Other Costs: Hut nights, food, travel and uplift during the tour ~ £350
 
Summary
This is a wild and remote ski tour with superb scenery and few other people around. The tour is long and intricate, traversing the French-Italian border. At least one night is spent in an unmanned hut, so we'll be taking food and stoves along. Stable weather conditions are required to complete the circuit around Monte Viso.
We offer this itinerary as a private guiding special - with dates by arrangement from March to April . Prices are as per our private guiding rates, up to a maximum of 6 skiers per guide.
Recent Trip Reports - Mar 2009
 
Starting Point
The week starts and finishes in the Queyras National Park.
 
Sample Itinerary
Subject to weather and snow conditions, the plan for the week is as follows:-
monte viso ski tour itinerary
Day 0 - Sat Travel to a comfortable Gite in the Queyras where we spend the night.
Day 1 - Sun
Warm up day. Day tour in the Queyras - skiing door to door from the Gite. PM Sort kit, discuss plans, buy food and gas for the trip.
Days 2-6 Mon - Fri
Tour Monte Viso

On day 2 we skin up to the Viso Hut, before traversing across to Italy on day 3 , through a series of cols on the north side of Monte Viso to the Quintino Sella Hut which is usually unmanned - this is a long day with several big climbs and descents.

On day 4 we head round the southern flanks of Monte Viso, to where two different routes and accommodation options are possible depending on conditions. Both routes then headeastward on day 5 to the Refuge Agnel before making the big descent back down to Ristolas on day 6 to finish the week.
monte viso ski tour
 
Food and Accommodation
We run all of our courses on a guiding and instruction only basis. The guide will book all valley and hut accomodation for the week, which you pay for direct as we go along.
 
Travel

Full travel details are provided with your joining instructions. The Queyras National Park is most easily reached via a flight to Turin or Grenoble Airports, then a hire car. It's also possible to reach Mt Dauphin station by train via Gap.

 
Ability and Experience
You need to be a good off piste skier (see ski ability level 3-5), with previous multiday ski tours already under your belt in order to join this tour. It is a strenuous and commiting route (where we need to carry food for an unmanned hut night) and includes 7-9 hour days with some big (1000m+) climbs, so you can expect to be skinning for 3-6 hours a day (see fitness level 3-4).
 
Equipment
We will supply you with a full kit list. You are responsible for bringing personal clothing, a rucsac and ski mountaineering skis, boots and kit (local hire of avalanche safety kit is available, but not skis and boots). We are delighted to be working on this tour with Backcountry UK, who provide excellent service and advice as a leading retailer of ski mountaineering equipment in the UK.
 
     
 
 
 
         
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