Itinerary

1. Day 1- Gudauri - Chrdili Mountain

   • Start the day with a couple of warm-up runs to check out everyone’s skiing ability and run through the basics of mountain safety and avalanche awareness at the famous ski area of Gudauri.

   • From the top of the lift station, have your first introduction to off-piste skiing. Your guide will assess the ability of everyone in the group and teach you all the correct techniques for using the ski touring equipment.

   • We will finish our day with an easy tour to Chrdili mountain.

   • Before descending, you can enjoy the views over Gudauri, the Lomisi range, and Khada valley.

   Difficulty *

   Overnight Gudauri.

   Breakfast, lunch and dinner included

2. Day 2- Mt. Bidara

   • Today, head for the Jvari pass and begin a tour to Mt. Bidara at 3000m with an available 650 vertical meters of ascent.

   • On the way up, we work on the skills and tactics for moving in steep terrain as well as basic avalanche awareness skills.

   • On the top, we can enjoy a small stop and tea with stunning views over the Gudauri resort and Caucasus valleys followed by an incredible descent of 1000 m right back to the hotel door.

   Duration- 3.5 hours

   Difficulty **

   Overnight in Gudauri.

   Breakfast, lunch and dinner included

3. Day 3- Mt. Dedaena

   • Start the day with a 15 minutes transfer from the hotel to the foot of Mt. Dedaena, standing at 3449m, and climb to a plateau at 3000m where we are met by stunning 360 views over the Caucasus.

   • After a briefing and explanation of the route, head down this great descent of 1000m back to our waiting vehicle for our transfer back on to Juta. One thousand vertical meters, 6 hours Difficulty ***.

   • After magnificent descent, head in the direction of Juta. This is where your newly acquired ski touring skills come into their own - skinning up to a remote refuge and spending the night in the mountains, with an early rise the following morning to experience deep powder off-piste skiing before the rest of the world wakes up.

   • From the point where snow clearance ends on the road, it’s about a 4-km uphill skin to the Zeta camp in the shadows of the Chaukhi Massive mountains (known as the Georgian dolomites). Three hundred fifty vertical meters, 4km skin Difficulty ***.

   Spend the night at Zeta camp, a mountain cabin situated above the remote village of Juta. The cabin lies at the entrance of a valley with stunning views of the Chaukhi range.

   Breakfast, lunch and dinner included.

4. Day 4- Mt. Shevardnadze

   • By this point, you should be feeling confident both in your ski touring skills and your mountain experience.

   • Ski tour an unnamed mountain called Mt. Shevardnadze by locals stands at 3150m, enjoying unparalleled views on Mt. Kazbegi.

   • There are many options in this sublime ski touring area to find goods turns and first runs through softly curving snowfields that lead right back to the cabin door.

   One thousand vertical meters

   Duration- 6 hours

   Difficulty ****

   Overnight At zeta camp.

5. Day 5- The Chaukhi Massive

   • Our final ski touring day will be a fantastic adventure far from the crowds found in lift-served areas.

   • Today, we start skinning from Zeta camp, heading towards the high altitude natural amphitheatre of the Chaukhi Massive. From there, follow the valley to the North, skinning up towards the Roshka pass, a famous and frequently used pass in the summer months but rarely seeing humans in the winter period.

   • From this spectacular vantage point, have a multitude of first run options and line choices all the way back to our overnight cabin where we can relax with a few beers recounting the weeks highlights.

   1000 vertical meters

   Duration- 6 hours 

   Difficulty ****

   Overnight in zeta camp.

   Breakfast, lunch and dinner included.

6. Day 6- Zeta

   • After a sumptuous breakfast, ski-out of Zeta to the waiting vehicles in the valley below and transfer back to Tbilisi.