Freeride & touring
Guiding
Experience the Arlberg from its impressive, sometimes rough and always adventurous side — more or less beyond the marked runs.
Experience the Arlberg from its impressive, sometimes rough and always adventurous side — more or less beyond the marked runs.
The simplest option is a regular guiding day: a day of off-piste shredding at the Arlberg, shaped around whatever you're hungry for. If you like it more specific, pick one of the four special offers: beginner ski tour, Valuga run to Zürs, heli-skiing or the avalanche and snow course.
Either way, I'll lead you and your powder-hungry crew into the wild — safely and playfully at the same time. Whether it's freeride guiding with some boot-packing, a proper ski tour or, with a bit of luck with the weather, just ripping around — from a beginner tour to heli-skiing, (almost) anything goes.
Everything here works on skis just as well as on a splitboard or with a free heel — and in a mixed group, too. As an old snowboard hand I know what matters on the way up and on the way down on one plank.
One thing always comes along: a good dose of risk awareness, my many years of experience guiding in all kinds of conditions and my feel for the right call when it matters.
We talk through all the important details beforehand — safety gear, weather, avalanche conditions, skills, stamina. That's not red tape, it's the part that makes the tour responsible in the first place.
At a relaxed pace, beyond the marked runs: we go on a manageable tour with enough time to explain everything — skins, ski crampons, setting a track, uphill technique, switching over at the top.
The goal isn't a vertical-metre record, but that afterwards you know what you're doing and want more.
The legendary run down to Zürs. Before we drop in, I'll see where you're at.
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To the Mehlsack. The flight is billed separately, I charge my day rate.
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The classic. Whether we go out is my call. If it doesn't work off piste, we switch: technique on the piste, avalanche drills or a tour in the forest. If nothing works at all, you get a new date, a voucher or your money back.
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Companion rescue, avalanche knowledge, snowpack structure: this is the part that makes any off-piste run responsible — and the part you can't learn from a video.
We practise with transceiver, probe and shovel until every move works under pressure. Plus digging and reading snow profiles, so you don't just read the avalanche bulletin, you understand it.
Before we venture into more demanding terrain together, I want to get a picture of your freeride skills. That's especially important if you'd like to book heli-skiing to the Mehlsack — for that I need a video of you riding steeper terrain or difficult snow. Or you book at least two days and we prepare together.
If we end up as a mixed group of skiers and snowboarders — no problem: as an old snowboard hand I know all the ups and downs of riding powder on one plank. Depending on the snow I'll pick my own toy for the day, too.
Transceiver, probe and shovel belong off piste — always. We'll sort out beforehand what you bring and what I provide.
Multi-day trips, splitboard or telemark tours, groups with mixed abilities — lots is possible that isn't listed here. Just ask.