The ideal early season week for honing your ski skills for the winter ahead: concentrating on off piste as well as piste ski techniques and includes sessions on avalanche safety, transceiver use, and ski touring equipment and techniques.

Sample Ski Itinerary

Day 1
Travel to the Auberge sur la Montagne. The Auberge has a well equipped ski workshop with off piste skis and equipment as well as touring kit and piste orientated skis. (Please have your equipment pre booked.) On the first evening we’ll do equipment fittings for those that need them. You'll meet the Auberge ski technicians and your instructor, Bryan Hogg, who will give a briefing on the plans for the week and distribute avalanche safety equipment for those that need it.

Days 2 to 6
Skiing in the best snow conditions to be found in the Tarentaise valley. The possibilities are endless and Bryan will sniff out the best places to ski each day. There will be technique sessions on and off piste. We’ll go by minibus each day to and from different resorts. On most evenings there will be some video analysis of your skiing from the day and some sessions on avalanche safety and equipment specifications and use.
The Auberge hot tub has a bar service as well as a sauna…so it’ll be relaxing and recuperating in the evenings. We’ll take in some après ski in Val d’Isère and have a night out in Ste Foy during the week.

Day 7
No instruction today so the day is yours to free ski. Maybe back up to Ste Foy for more fresh tracks in it’s renowned off piste terrain, maybe to Val. The massage jets in the hot tub will be seriously useful this evening.

Day 8
Breakfast at the Auberge followed by outward travel.

The itinerary is flexible depending on the weather and snow conditions, the preferences of the group and the recommendations of the instructors.