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can anyone recommend ski operators that offer ski guiding, i have been with collettes and ski morgin and the guiding has been exellent.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Most independent chalets will offer ski guiding.
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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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escorting would be a better description
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| Mike Pow wrote: |
| escorting would be a better description |
I agree, in years gone by when I worked for Bladen Lines I was called a ski guide, however now I own my own business I refer to myself as a ski companion. I ski with our guests 5 out of 6 days and try to ensure that they receive the best experience in each resort which is where local knowledge is key.
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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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Alpine Tracks do in Tignes and Morzine
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Mike Pow, quite.
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I think they pretty much all do, but in the majority of cases this is piste guiding, usually at the beginning of the week to show people around the mountain. Off-piste guiding is a specialist offering and usually costs extra unless part of a specialist chalet package.
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I only consider someone holding one of these highly respected and extremely difficult to attain qualifications to be classified as a genuine mountain guide: UIAGM, IFMGA, NZMG, AMGA. Anyone else selling their services as a guide but without holding one of these qualifications is, as Mike POW has already said, an escort or companion.
Don't get me wrong, having details local knowledge of an area, its weather patterns, snowpack/avalanche prone slopes, cliffs, escape routes etc is excellent and not to be sniffed at but that does NOT make you a qualified mountain guide.
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Hornster, I was not aware that people who guide their holiday clients around resorts as you desribe are claiming to be mountain guides
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riverman, I was refering to someone who takes clients off-piste or backcountry skiing/boarding.
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