Latest News 4th Feb., 2012
2011-12 Season
TRIP BOOKING STATUS & AVAILABILITY
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New La Thuile dates! 25th March - 1st April and 1st - 8th April: 'All Terrain' and full range of Off-piste courses will be available - contact us for more info.
March & April accommodation discounts: 2 seasons ago we asked for surcharges because of the weakening £. This season the balance has swung the other way and we are happy to pass on the benefits of a strengthening pound to you!
Gressoney SAVE upto £50 at the Hotel Ellex
Cervinia SAVE upto £40 at the Hotel Miravidi
Savings at all hotels we offer in the relevant Trip Details.
Contact us for full information.
New 'The King's Trail' departure 11 - 18 March.
(25th March departure now FULL)
New "Grand Traverse of the Jura" dates: 11- 19 Feb., 2012.
Contact us for more information
at TeleSkiCo venues:
Plunging temperatures ensures pristine powder ...
Zinal: Ski area open. To-day -17 C and sun. 90 cms in the valley and 140cms powder snow on the mountain
La Thuile: 40cms in valley and 170cms on the mountain; powder/light snow all over. Sunny.
Gressoney: 70cms in the valley and 190cms up top; sunny weather and -17 C. Chilly - but excellent skiing!
Cervinia: Huge amounts of snow!, 290cms on Plateau Rosa, 180 cms at Plan Maison and 110cms in the village with great powder skiing everywhere! Sunny weather and temperatures down to - 21 high up the mountain!!!
Geilo: 65cms snow on the slopes and much of Nordic areas in very good condition. Temperatures - 11 and snow forecast for to-night.
Fiescheralp - Superb powder skiing 17 - 24 Jan.! Click on this link at YouTube For more Fiescheralp powder skiing, just 2 days later, click here
La Thuile - powder in the trees, 1 - 8 Feb. Click here for powder with an Italian flavour
Tignes: chunky off-piste 13 - 31 Dec. Click here 'The Boys' making crud look easy!!
Parnassos, Greece: powder, trees & summits! 8 - 15 Feb Click here for great skiing at a unique venue!
Obergurgl and Andermatt, 21/3 - 4/4. Click here for yet more powder and touring - what a season!
Cervinia, April 5 - 19, Spring powder, as always!. Click here for mid April powder
La Thuile, April 19 - 26, Reliably good off-piste snow year after year Click here for end of season action .
Lenzerheide -vast off-piste & day tour potential as well as great pistes. Click here for a taste.
Thanks to Graham Hammond (camera & editing).
Airport transfers: contact us for more info
Insurance: click here for more information.
Booking: click here for more info and Booking Form.
BELOW: Late April at La Thuile, brilliant Spring conditions!
LEFT & FAR LEFT: Very good piste conditions even after a bit of a drought this Autumn! Snow forecast for later this week ...
Bonny Masson and Neil Macpherson enjoying the Kaserer slopes yesterday afternoon. Photos: John Eames
Nordic skiing: We have some wonderful new trips in the Alps for those keen to learn or improve. A great way to prepare for hut-to hut tours in Norway!
NORDIC SKI LONG WEEKENDS
NORDIC SKI WEEKS
NORDIC SKI JURA MOUNTAINS TRAVERSE TOUR
MT. BLANC SNOWSHOE & SKI WEEK
DOLOMITES TRACK EXPLORER
FOR ALL DATES & VENUES: See programme or main website
FULL DETAILS: Download Trip Dossiers or contact us:
tel., 01248 810337, e-mail ski@telemarkskico.com
BELOW RIGHT: Zinal this January - a wonderful new off-piste destination.
BELOW: Poised to go! Les Contamines, Jan., 2010
For winter or summer DNT hut use, you can buy your DNT membership from us. Membership will save you hut costs and give you priority at busy times. The 'huts' are fantastic value in remote and very beautiful surroundings.
Go to the 'DNT' page on our website for prices & membership application.
Make sure you chose the best skis, bindings and boots for what you want to do.
The correct boot, sizing & fitting ensure comfort, safety and better performance.
Note: All advice is based on our use and experience and we receive NO commission on any recommendations.
Peace, space and beauty
photo above and 4 photos below
We're looking forward to skiing with you this winter! Do book soon as bookings are good and more are coming in all the time now.
'Core staff', John, Neil, Julia and Bonny will be instructing in the Alps but may well be joined by others. Our very experienced nordic leaders like Katherine and Tom will no doubt be leading our Scandanavian nordic trips.
Note - we use only NGB, i.e. British Association of Snowsports, professionally-qualified instructors and only run ability-specific tours or instructional groups. For instructional weeks with an apparently wide range of levels, we always have sub-groups for coaching. We do our utmost to ensure that clients will enjoy, benefit and be safe in the trips they join.
Best wishes from John Eames
www.telemarkskico.com
All images protected by copyright, 2009, The Telemark Ski Co/John Eames
What we do during the rest of the year. We have been rock-climbing and mountaineering for longer than we've been skiing! In our ski 'off-season', we work leading some expedition-standard, high altitude treks but mainly mountaineering expeditions in the Greater Ranges, (particularly the Himalayas), with a leading, high-quality UK company. Since 1988, Bonny's led summits of over 7000m while John has been over 8000m. He has led Cho Oyu, the 6th highest peak in the world. And telemark-skied Mustagh Ata, a 7500m peak in Singkiang Province, China with clients.
We live on Anglesey just across from Snowdonia, so if any of you would like to walk, scramble or rockclimb, get in touch and we can set up a course. We can also offer Nordic Walking. It's a great way to learn some of the techniques used in nordic skiing as well as excellent for fitness. All this in the superb 'Sea and Summit' scenery of Snowdonia & Anglesey around us.
Of course we climb and ski just for pleasure too - all the time. We love mountains!
2011: John lad a successful trip to climb the highest peaks of the Altai mountains of Mongolia.
Bonny is off on Oct 6th to lead a superb and remote trek in the west of Nepal: the Kanchenjunga Circuit. This is one of the most beautiful & undeveloped ares in Nepal and the trip will be 4 weeks & 1 day long. Get in touch if you want to join her!