Access will be via ski lifts (no ski touring is involved in this course)
Dates: weeks commencing Saturday 24 February 2024
Duration: All day from 09.00 – 16:00hrs over 5 days
Group size: 6 maximum
Skill level: Confident skiers with a sense of adventure who enjoy going off the beaten track!
Winter course content: This all day course will explore the outer reaches of this huge ski area. Late February often provides great powder in the Alps and our coaches will spend their day taking you to the very best pitches and terrain.
Spring course content: This all day course will explore the outer reaches of Les 3 Vallées ski domain. It’s the perfect time of year to enjoy the magical experience of ‘corn/spring’ snow and enjoy skiing all over the valleys.
Our team of coaches not only know where to find the very best snow but also where it is at specific times of the day. They will move around the mountain finding the best pitches and terrain as the sun softens the snow which makes for an amazing ski experience.
Both courses are based almost entirely off piste and you need to be equipped accordingly for back country skiing. Although we will return to the chalet each evening you will need to be fully equipped for back country skiing with transceiver, shovel and probe. You can hire this locally if needed.
Equipment needed: 30 litre winter rucksack; water bottle / hydration pack; suncream (factor 50+); sunhat; warm hat, sunnies; goggles; avalanche kit – transceiver, shovel, probe (can be rented in resort).
Supplement: £400 per person for skivo guest / £500 per person for non skivo guests
Contact us to reserve a place(s) on this course.
A very special one off end of season touring week – enjoy those empty slopes to the full.
Access will not always be via ski lifts as this is a ski touring course (some lifts may be used as appropriate)
Dates: week commencing Saturday 13 April 2024
Base: Choose your chalet
Course Cost: £350 per person (if staying in chalet) / £500 per person for non skivo2 guests – a minimum of 5 people are required for the course to run
Coach: Dave Beattie
Duration: All day
Group size: 8 maximum
Skill level: Confident skiers with a good level of fitness. You must have a sense of adventure and enjoy going off the beaten track!
Course content:
Where we go will be dictated to a large extent by the current weather and snow conditions. This is prime time for back country skiing and the plan is to explore Les 3 Vallées on touring skis. One tour will involve an overnight in a refuge.
On our the itinerary are the following tours. Obviously we will choose which one suits the conditions at the time.
- Day Tour: Les Avals and Le Petit Mont Blanc Tour from Courchevel 1650
- Day Tour: Mont de la Guerre Champagny/La Plagne. This tour starts in Champagny and takes you through the forest on a beautiful ski tour trail to high above La Plagne
- Day Tour: Lac Tueda via Creux Noir. Short tour from the old Creux Noir chairlift. Superb long descent to Lac Tueda above Mottaret
- Day Tour: Point de la Masse – St Martin de Belleville off piste. Short skin from Point de la Masse to access 10km back country to St Martin
- Day Tour: Breche de la Portetta descent into Pralongon. This is 2 hours tour to access this steep and narrow couloir. Amazing ski but for very strong steep terrain skiers only.
- Overnight Tour: Naves – Beaufort Refuge de Le Nantes du Beurre
- Overnight Tour: Col de la Vanoise Refuge Col de la Vanoise
Although we will mostly return to the chalet each evening you will need to be fully equipped for back country skiing with transceiver, shovel and probe. You can hire this locally if needed.
Equipment needed: 30 litre winter rucksack; water bottle / hydration pack; suncream (factor 50+); sunhat; warm hat, sunnies; goggles; avalanche kit – transceiver, shovel, probe (can be rented in resort).
Contact us to reserve place(s) on this course.
What our guests say about us
Just wanted to say what a wonderful holiday we had recently. Chalet Sapin Bleu was a fabulous chalet (real luxury) and my friends and I are keen to return next season. I think what made it so good was all the friendly help from the very start, to getting there and getting skis etc sorted out. The chalet staff were great and the quality of the food was just amazing.
We had a great week with skivo – my eighth, but the first for my wife and her two friends, and also for the lovely group of people with whom we shared Chalet Roger. The entire skivo team looked after use fantastically well; nothing was too much trouble and Bogie’s cooking was superb. The lessons were really good and we had amazing weather and snow
Just wanted to email and thank you again for hosting us for such a wonderful week. Our whole party had the best time ever and we are all really struggling being back at work – especially as it is snowing heavily here! It is by far the best week of the year and we are very grateful to you and the whole skivo team for making it so memorable.