Valais Safari

Day by day itinerary:

Day 1 Meet at a hotel in Martigny

Day 2 Off piste around Verbier, warming up the legs and refreshing on transceiver searches. Possibly a short skin to check equipment, stay in the Mont Fort Hut.

Day 3 Ski through the Verbier system, exiting on the north east side over the Greppon Blanc and 100m descent down to Leyteygeon. Take a taxi up the picturesque Val d’Herens to Nax.

It snowed all night and at 10, the clouds lifted for one of the most awesome powder days of the season.

Day 4 A bus to the Mont Noble lift system. Lift up to the Col de Cou, a short descent is followed by a 1½ hour skin and then a long off piste run to Grimentz. Taxi to St Luc, ski through the system and finally a half hour skin to the unique Hotel Weisshorn, a remote yet comfortable mountain hotel.

Day 5 Ski through the St Luc system to the Col de Boeuf, then a long descent to Oberems. Cable car to Turtmann in the Rhone valley, bus or train to Raron, then a cable car up to Unterbäch.

Day 6 Off piste around Unterbäch, then skin up the Augstborghorn (approx 3 hours) then ski off the back down to Törbel. Take a navette to Stalden.

Day 7 A bus and taxi to Vispertiminen, then off the back , a short skin and then down to the Simplonpass to complete an awesome traverse of the Vaais. Train back to Martigny

Day 8 Travel home.

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