A new app for ski adventures

A snowHead

Hi everyone,

Im my spare time I've been working on Montino, a free app for finding ski adventures. I spent a couple of winters in the Alps and always loved helping people have great days on the mountain by recommending runs and areas to ski. My app basically collects them together into itineraries to follow. You can sort them by country, resort and difficulty.

The app features the Three Valley Escapade (remember that!?) And the Sella Ronda (both clockwise and anti clockwise). I'd love it if people fancy trying them out and sharing how you get on.

I've loaded lots of adventures which I love skiing and want to share. Now I'm looking to add more content from other ski experts. Take a look at the app and if you'd like to contribute adventures please let me know.

The app is on Android and iPhone. There might be some bugs so please be gentle but honest with your feedback.

Links to the appstore and play store are here: www.montino.app

A snowHead

I like the concept. I also like that I don't have to put in an email address or anything to try it!

Adding maps of some kind to the 'adventures' would be very helpful - and being able to select a starting point e.g. most of the 3 vallees ones look like you have to start at a fixed point, when you might actually want to start elsewhere on the 'loop'.

And a bug (Android) - when hitting 'back' from within an 'adventure', it takes me the whole way back to the swipey intro screens, not just back to adventure selections or the home screen (using gesture navigation, android 13, LG V60).

Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?

I like it but it needs maps

You need to Login to know who's really who.

I am an anxious intermediate I therefore like the idea of being able to follow a route that someone else has assured is really "low intermediate" e.g. a route that might include a red or two where actually they aren't that difficult or that might exclude some of the blues because they should really be reds.

What we do at the moment if we go to a new resort is that hubby will go and recce the runs before I attempt them - an app like this might alleviate the need to do that. It would need whoever has declared the route "beginner" to not overestimate what someone can do though.

I guess another way to give me what I'd like in an app is a database of the runs and reviews of them - e.g. "easy red, mostly wide pistes", or "blue but with narrow steep bit at blah, best avoided a home time" "green, road, lots of pole punting required" "narrow road, steep drop to the left" (I'm scared of heights lol!)

If the route creator/reviewer is "named" can put their own skill level that would help to decide whether to trust it or not. e.g. If I saw it was written by someone "very advanced" then I'd be less likely to take their opinion that a route was "beginner" than someone who was a "low intermediate"

Happy to document the routes that we do in Valmenier/Valloire next week if that helps.

Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.

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