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I'm looking at some off piste/back country courses for January. I came across a couple of courses with Snoworks - has anyone done one of these courses and can recommend them at all?
Alternative can anyone recommend good and reasonably priced of piste/back country courses in the alps? All recommendations welcome.
Thanks 
Joey
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Depends a little on what you wanna do Joey, and where.
Do you want to improve your skiing performance, avalanche skills and be guided to some awesome terrain?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Anywhere in the Alps is fine. I am keen on doing an off piste or backcountry course over 5 days or so, more of a guided tour with some advanced instructors. I am just interested in the ski experience as opposed to learning how to dig someone out of an avalanche!
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@joeyg, I did the backcountry course in Tignes in 2013 and enjoyed it. I was not the biggest fan of the espace killy, but with snoworks, i got to explore the outstanding off piste oppurtunities there and i also got to do the tarrentaise tour and helicopter pick up from lac du chevril, which were both great. I was expecting a bit more tution to guiding that we got and we never did any video analysis which was disappointing.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| joeyg wrote: |
| Anywhere in the Alps is fine. I am keen on doing an off piste or backcountry course over 5 days or so, more of a guided tour with some advanced instructors. I am just interested in the ski experience as opposed to learning how to dig someone out of an avalanche! |
Mr Offpisteskiing may be your man:
http://www.offpisteskiing.com/
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@joeyg, The snoworks courses should be fine for you. I've done their all terrain course a number of times and that is mostly off piste if the conditions allow. Friends were on the off piste course at the same time. You get to follow experienced off piste instructors into interesting terrain plus there's a good social side back at the MW hotel in the evenings.
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| Arno wrote: |
| joeyg wrote: |
| Anywhere in the Alps is fine. I am keen on doing an off piste or backcountry course over 5 days or so, more of a guided tour with some advanced instructors. I am just interested in the ski experience as opposed to learning how to dig someone out of an avalanche! |
Mr Offpisteskiing may be your man:
http://www.offpisteskiing.com/ |
+1.
PS- avalanche training in one form or other is likely to be part of the course. As it rightly should be.
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| joeyg wrote: |
| ?. as opposed to learning how to dig someone out of an avalanche! |
Instructors and guides are quite keen on this, if for no other reason it might be them that's buried while they are skiing with you.
Also check out skierchris signature above. Chris is a top Chamonix based instructor.
Depending on yours previous experience this might be of interest.
http://www.offpiste.org.uk/courses/ski-performance-for-mountaineers/
A friend of mine speaks highly on snoworks courses, Phil Smith who heads them up is one of the best instructors there is.
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Brilliant, Thanks for the recommendations guys, all look really good!
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