Sponsored Post: Three Days Off-Piste With Henry & His Adventure Team

Enjoy & learn about off-piste and back-country skiing and snowboarding
While most of the European Alps are seeing record snow depths this winter, there’s the temptation to push yourself further and further off-piste in search of the perfect glide. But with all this snow comes risk. Risk that you can learn to manage.

Based in Val d’Isere, Henry Schniewind is the founder of Henry’s Avalanche Talk (HAT) and he’s internationally renowned as the expert when it comes to off-piste skiing and snowboarding. If you’re hooked on perfecting your powder turns but you’d also like to learn to manage the risks, this three day ‘Henry Off-Piste’ course with Henry and his Adventure Team is for you.

Based around the simple question ‘Is it safe out there?’ this course encourages you to assess the conditions based on the quality of snow in addition to:

• Decision making – where you go and when
• Risk management – how you go down and up
• Crisis management – being prepared to find your companion and get them out from under the snow in less than 15 minutes.

Photo: Image from previous Henry Off-piste course

Programme Details

Each three day course is based in Val d’Isere and includes:

• Three days of off-piste skiing with guiding and some technique tuition by Henry and his ‘A’ team.
• Henry’s Avalanche Talk Live – An early evening briefing from Henry and his team on current snow conditions and avalanche risks.
• HAT Quick Reference Card – A memory aide for risk management and decision making, plus coaching on how to use it.
• An avalanche search and rescue crisis management exercise using avalanche transceivers.
• Premium membership of the HAT website, giving access to all resources and in-depth avalanche talks plus forums in which you can further your knowledge and ask questions to fellow members.
• A HAT Certificate of Off-Piste Excellence (COPE) to recognise your participation on a course that provides full knowledge of off-piste risk management.
• There’ll also be an introduction to ski touring if conditions are appropriate.
• Photos and possible videos of the session.

Dates:

• Monday 4th to Wednesday 6th March SOLD OUT
• Tuesday 26th to Thursday 28th March SPACES AVAILABLE
• Tuesday 16th to Thursday 18th April SPACES AVAILABLE
• Tuesday 23rd to Thursday 25th April SPACES AVAILABLE

Prices:

€480 per person
Prices are per person and are based on a minimum group size of 4 and a maximum group size of 6. If you are one group, the 5th and 6th members are charged at €200 each.

Prerequisites:

These courses are at skier level ‘intermediate off-piste level 2’ (our Henry Off-Piste rating on a scale of 1 to 4) which means that you are: reasonably comfortable on black runs that are in good condition and you are able to link at least 10 turns in deep snow or variable snow conditions.

Feedback from previous courses:

Henry gave us not only an unforgettable day of guiding but absolutely invaluable real-world mountain advice. He managed to pack in the major essentials of his on-line video chats with expertly guided pow lines all day. Laid back and easy going, yet incredibly “on it”. I couldn’t think of a better guide!

David Knox March 2012

In an recent article in The Telegraph newspaper Henry Schniewind was the only off-piste guide to receive a 10/10 rating. Read the article online here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/snowandski/france/val-disere/9876860/Best-ValdIsere-skischools.html

You can also watch Henry’s short ‘Ride Hard Ride Safe’ video on YouTube.

**Course enquiries: http://henryoffpiste.com/