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Zermatt off piste?
Yet to find any useful info on Zermatt off pistes. Would someone have
directions/recommendations to the goods? Going this Christmas. Thanks, Tomi |
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Zermatt off piste?
"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. |
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Zermatt off piste?
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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 |
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Zermatt off piste?
There are guides at the Ski School who do nothing but off-piste skiing.
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Zermatt off piste?
Jeremy Mortimer wrote:
funkraum wrote in "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). I think I have frequently had trouble getting up that far, with the lift onwards from the Gronergrat out of service for one reason or another. It took me a while to drag the images of this area from the depths of my memory but I have skied both of these (from the Rothorn also) but was performing reconnaissance on Findelgletscher / Adlergletscher at the time and so may not have noticed any opportunities. I must have been highly engrossed as I can normally smell off-piste before I see it. From Gornergrat the slope above Riffelberg has possibilities - I've not really explored this except bits on the way to somewhere else. I had thought about this but the descent seemed short in relation to the length of the recovery and pencilled it in for another day. Let us know if you explore. 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. I think I had a look at this from the Hörnli Ridge - but remember thinking that the drop looked limited. I shall investigate next time. 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. I occasionally cut across here but the aspect seems to ensure the snow is always like cake icing. The piste is a good one however, Zermatt's best. The last few years I've had a great time in Zermatt at he beginning of December. Christmas should be good! You can ski the Breithorn (both faces) as long as you do not mind skinning up. Do not forget the descent under the Klein Matterhorn lift over the Unterer Theodulgletscher, the routes off the Stockhorn and other 'Japanese Suicide Route' specials. |
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