funkraum wrote in
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"tomi pesonen" wrote:

Yet to find any useful info on Zermatt off pistes. Would someone have
directions/recommendations to the goods? Going this Christmas.


Zermatt has limited off-piste.

There is a good expanse of red grade off-piste over at Cervinia. Head
over the pass and down to the right. Use the lowermost piste to
reconnoitre the descents from the pistes above it.

There's a whole mountainside of off piste skiing under the lift from Gant
to Hohtalli, and another on the face under the Rothorn lift (take the
piste down to the left and leave it after 100m on the left to cross the
ridge, descend anywhere between rocky spurs). From Gornergrat the slope
above Riffelberg has possibilities - I've not really explored this except
bits on the way to somewhere else.

In the Theodule Pass area there are lots of little things to do. You can
head right out across the Furgg glacier (watch out for crevasses early in
the season) either straight across or left past seracs, returning to
Furgg down a small valley to the right. If you stay on the right of the
glacier it ends at a cliff with two or three short couloirs - recce this
cautiously in good visibility, the cliff may have a cornice. Immediately
right off the ridge from Klein Matterhorn are various possibilities,
short steep pitches down the glacier; recce from the bottom first
(occasionally they put a piste down here). There's quite a lot of other
small stuff between pistes - just explore.

The last few years I've had a great time in Zermatt at he beginning of
December. Christmas should be good!

Jeremy