Macedonia Freeride Cat and Ski Touring

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Enjoy a unique Macedonia freeride cat and ski touring adventure. Learn and practice new skills in the gorgeous Sharr Mountains with top certified guides and instructors!

Group

5 Days

Jan - Mar

High

Intermediate

Highlights

Learn avalanche skills, big mountain safety, and perfect your riding technique.
Discover the best off-piste terrain around Popova Shapka.
Enjoy direct access to the ski slopes from your hotel.

Description

On this thrilling 5-day Macedonia freeride cat and ski touring program, you will access the best ski lines and mountains in North Macedonia, perfect your skills, and enjoy an overall exhilarating winter adventures.

Everyday, we will use the cat to access remote, high up places in the Sharr Mountains, where we will enjoy putting our ski touring skills to practice. We will explore the off-piste terrains around Popova Shapka, and stay in a hotel with direct access to the ski slopes.

Furthermore, on this adventure, we will also have the chance to learn avalanche and big mountains safety skills, as well as work on our ski technique. You will be coached and guided, and there will be a video analysis to complement what we learn on our days out on the slopes.

Some of the topics we will broach upon include:

Avalanche safety
First aid, theory and practice
Group dynamics in an avalanche
Basic outdoor risks
Safety for big mountain riding
Planning and assessing your day in the mountains
Selecting ascent and descent lines
Ski and snowboarding technique
Technique for skinning and climbing
Crampons and ice ax technique
Rock Climbing skills (abseiling, knots, equipment)
Equipment
Personalized coaching
Video analysis

In order to join this tour, you will need to be confident skiing on black slopes and have some off-piste, ski touring experience. Additionally, you will need to have basic avalanche training. Also, keep in mind that this is a physically intense tour. The minimum age to join is 15 years old.

This is an intense freeride cat and ski touring adventure that will give you a great lead into ski and snowboard culture. If you would like to join, contact us now and we can start planning this unforgettable adventure together!

Price includes

Itinerary

Equipment you will need to bring

You will need to bring: -Avalanche set - beacon, probe & shovel -Skis with touring bindings or splitboard skins -Telescopic poles -Helmet -Goggles & sunglasses -Ski or snowboard clothing

About the guide

Snowbusters

Guide Agency

Snowbusters is a skiing and snowboarding community of guides and coaches that have grown out of a genuine passion for gliding snow on any possible terrain, at different locations around the world. We love and live what we do. That’s why we don’t just sell skiing or snowboarding holidays. We don’t just provide instructors and guides.

Our aim goes far beyond that. We strive to introduce people who decide to join us to the whole culture behind what we love to do most in our lives. We try hard to maintain the motivation high. Our lifelong dedication is the best proof that we are good at it. We know what it gets to internalize the right habits that will lead to continuous progress.

We are a community of equally passionate skiers, snowboarders, and mountaineers. Having different educational and professional backgrounds, we provide complex and revealing insights into skiing and snowboarding in its various forms, as well as into skiing and snowboarding lifestyles. Ours have been crafted in a way that allows for as much riding as possible. We have a lifelong affair with the sport and are able to employ multiple approaches to passing on the necessary skills that will help you become a better skier or snowboarder.

In our view, growing up as a skier or snowboarder entails growing up as a person. We live and work in natural environments, and an important part of what we do is sharing our positive attitude towards nature. We promote partnership and respect to all living and non-living elements of our world. At the start of the new year, we will be joining the 1% For The Planet project.

Languages

Swedish | Russian | German | English | Czech

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