Austria · Tyrol · Silvretta
A week of ski touring in Austria: after a warm-up in the Pitztal, you head into the Silvretta on skins from a mountain hotel at the Bielerhöhe, with climbs of up to 1,200 m and, if conditions allow, the summit of Piz Buin, at 3,312 m.
From€4,500per person, excluding flights
Ski touring in Austria, in the Silvrettafrom €4,500
November to May · dates on request
You’ll enjoy
The trip begins in the Pitztal, where you meet your guide for a gentle morning to find your ski legs and two days of freeride touring, before moving on to a mountain hotel at the Bielerhöhe, the starting point for Silvretta ski touring. Six ski days, seven hotel nights, one guide for six skiers at most, and a PowderWeGo professional with your group.
8 days · November to May, dates on request
From €4,500per person, excluding flights
Depending on your off-piste level and what you are hoping for, we can build a tailor-made trip to the Tyrol with you, on your dates, between November and May.
Tell us what you have in mind, and we’ll reply within 24 hours.
This roving ski trip takes you into the Silvretta, on the border between Austria and Switzerland, where Piz Linard rises to 3,410 m. Ski tourers love the range for its gently sloping glaciers and welcoming huts, and for the warmth of the Tyroleans.
That combination makes it a gentle introduction to Austria’s great ski touring routes. Our BEES-qualified ski instructors specialising in off-piste, and/or UIAGM mountain guides, have picked routes for you away from the tracks, in side valleys that are often still untouched.
Around the Bielerhöhe and the Silvrettapass, your days are given over to ski touring: you put your skins on for climbs of up to 1,200 m of vertical, at a moderate pace held over several hours, then carry straight on into an off-piste descent.
On the sixth day, if conditions allow, your guide takes you to the summit of Piz Buin, at 3,312 m, and you cross into Switzerland on your skis.
Before the Silvretta, the trip begins in the Pitztal. After breakfast, a morning of freeride touring and freeriding gets your legs going again, then two days of freeride touring show you the valley and its glacier.
On the afternoon of day four, you move on to the Bielerhöhe; the last stretch, from the top of the cable car to the mountain hotel, is included in the trip.
After skiing
You spend seven nights in 3-star hotels with breakfast: in the Pitztal, then at the Bielerhöhe, and back in the Pitztal for the last night. We chose these places for their character; the one at the Bielerhöhe, a mountain hotel cut off from the world, stands among the peaks of the Silvretta.
In the evening, you enjoy the local specialities, from warming cheese dishes to traditional Alpine liqueurs. Dinners are at your own expense; picnic lunches are included.
Set our trips side by side, or let us suggest three to suit what you have in mind.
Your guide adapts each day to the snow, the weather, and the group’s level and wishes, and has the final word on the route, for everyone’s safety and enjoyment.
When the weather calls for a change of plan, the guides decide on it with you.
In the Tyrol, traditional culture is part of everyday life, in the mountain huts and around the dinner table, and singing still has its place. After skiing, the atmosphere of the Austrian valleys carries the day on into the evening.
Each traveller is lent their safety kit: avalanche airbag pack, transceiver, shovel and probe.
The programme
Meet at the hotel in the Pitztal in the afternoon. A kit check, any last-minute gear or food shopping, then packs made ready for the next day. Night at the hotel.
Breakfast at 8 am, then any spare luggage stays in the vehicle, in the car park. The morning is a warm-up of freeride touring and freeriding in the Pitztal.
Freeride touring in the Pitztal. On the afternoon of day 4, the transfer to the Bielerhöhe and a first evening at the mountain hotel.
Ski touring around the Bielerhöhe and the Silvrettapass.
Ski touring around the Bielerhöhe; if conditions allow, the climb to Piz Buin, at 3,312 m, and a crossing into Switzerland.
A last day of ski touring around the Bielerhöhe, then back down to the valley and a final night in the Pitztal, at the hotel of the first evening.
Breakfast, then departure.
The programme may change with the snow, the weather, and the group’s level and wishes; the guide who skis with you decides each day’s route.
Payment: a 30% deposit on booking, then the balance no later than two months before departure, by bank transfer or card. Full details are in our terms and conditions.
Powder, glacier plateaus and wide open spaces in the Tyrol.
After a warm-up in the Pitztal, you head into the Silvretta on skins from a mountain hotel at the Bielerhöhe and, if conditions allow, stand on the summit of Piz Buin, at 3,312 m. Evenings at the hotel, among the peaks, end over cheese dishes and an Alpine liqueur. A week for off-piste skiers and ski tourers who love variety, off-piste and on skins.
Boris Malesset, ski instructor since 1996, off-piste professional since 2001, based in Val d'Isère since 2005, holder of the French BEES, the Swiss Level 3 ski instructor patent and the Austrian Schiführer diploma
« L’organisation, les restos, l’hôtel, tout était parfait ! On a même eu le droit un sauna en plein milieu de la montagne !!!! »
Translated from French: The organisation, the restaurants, the hotel, everything was perfect! We even got a sauna right in the middle of the mountains!!!!
« Une organisation super efficace et une équipe au top, toujours à l’écoute. Ajoutez à cela une neige incroyable et vous obtenez le cocktail parfait! »
Translated from French: Super-efficient organisation and a great team, always attentive. Add incredible snow and you have the perfect cocktail!
In the Tyrol, a PowderWeGo professional is with your group all week, six skiers per guide. Each morning, your avalanche airbag pack, transceiver, shovel and probe go out with you, and the route is chosen according to the day’s snow.
For another week in the Alps, take a look at Dolomites ski touring or our ski safari around Mont Blanc, in France, Italy and Switzerland.
Our week of ski touring in Austria costs from €4,500 per person, excluding flights, for a group of six skiers with one guide. The price includes seven nights in 3-star hotels with breakfast, picnic lunches, Pitztal lift passes, access to the Bielerhöhe, guiding, and the loan of an avalanche airbag pack, transceiver, shovel and probe. Dinners are at your own expense.
We take you to the Tyrol, into the Silvretta on the Swiss border: from a mountain hotel at the Bielerhöhe, the ski touring routes set off around the Silvrettapass, up to Piz Buin when conditions allow. The trip begins with three days of freeride touring in the Pitztal.
Our ski touring trip to the Tyrol runs from November to May, on your dates, on request. Tell us when you would like to come and how many of you there are, and we’ll reply within 24 hours.
This trip calls for off-piste skiing level 3/5 and fitness level 3/5: being at ease in deep snow, used to skinning, and able to keep up a moderate effort for several hours, with climbs of up to 1,200 m. To check where you stand: your off-piste skiing level and your fitness level.
On the trip, you spend seven nights in 3-star hotels, with breakfast: three in the Pitztal, three at a mountain hotel at the Bielerhöhe, in the heart of the Silvretta, then the last one back in the Pitztal.
The choice is yours: you can bring your own touring skis and skins, or hire them, at your own expense. Your safety kit is lent to you: avalanche airbag pack, transceiver, shovel and probe.
PowderWeGo, founded by Boris Malesset and based in Val d’Isère, designs this trip to the Tyrol and guides it on the ground, with a PowderWeGo professional alongside your group. Bookings go through Aéreau Voyages, which organises and sells the trip.
Send us your dates and the number of skiers from this page; we reply to messages within 24 hours, and you can also message Boris on WhatsApp. A 30% deposit is payable on booking, and the balance no later than two months before departure.
Useful before you go: Avalanche.report, the avalanche bulletin for Tyrol, South Tyrol and Trentino · SLF, the WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research (Switzerland) · the Silvretta, on Wikipedia.
Tell us when you’re coming and how many of you there are, and we’ll reply within 24 hours.
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