Alpine Guide Verbier

A mountain guide’s perspective on current ski and climbing conditions in and around Verbier, Switzerland.

Italian Powdah!

We went south to sample some of the Italian stuff. And it was really nice to be there. Though it was cold on the upper slopes, maybe -30 with wind chill, the skiing was fine. We had an entire valley to ourselves, room enough to lay down some fresh tracks… The back of Mt.Fort was [...]

Spring Time Winter Powder

I took the camera again today. The 50cm of fresh snow and sunshine was photo inspirational. We left Verbier right away this morning to find deep powder and no crowds. The snow was nice, though a bit upside-down. One had to keep the tips up! The first 2 photos are of our Chalet and Verbier. [...]

Heliskiing/Alpine Climb

And so it did: It snowed again, but 40cm+ outside my chalet this time. From 7AM to midnight, we had a good little winter storm- to welcome in the first day of Spring! We skied in Bruson, where the visibility of the woods helped us navigate the fresh powder. Winter is indeed upon us. Yesterday [...]

February’s Spring Weather- March’s WIntery Start

It has been absolutely gorgeous this whole past month of February. The corn snow of early February evolved from early winter, SE only aspects, to full-on, Spring-Time corn during the last 2 weeks of Feb. We skied real long runs into this lovely Val du Bagnes, off the Trient Glacier, and several trips onto Italian [...]