Ski touring Bernina: on the border between skiing and mountaineering

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High altitude refuge

Effort takes precedence over landscape

Départ le 20 avril 2023

For 4 days

ski touring Bernina

Piz Bernina, 4000m from the Eastern Alps and the highest point of the Engadine. 4 days to discover this massif and practice skiing and mountaineering, all on (very) high peaks.

Motivated?

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Go!

The advantages of the guide

Photo shooting during the 4 days

A guide for 2 people for safety in technical passages

Ski teaching tips to help you tackle steep slopes with confidence.

Type of adventure

	High altitude refuge
	Effort takes precedence over landscape
	In Europe
	Great classics
	Regular
	Confirmed

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The destination

1st 4000m of the Alps from the East, I named the Piz Bernina at 4048m. Located in the Engadin massif, it seems to be well isolated from its other 4000m friends. However, it stands in a massif whose average altitude is relatively high.
Moving around in this area has a little taste of mountaineering: crevassed glacier, technical summits, altitude.

This Bernina ski touring is therefore an invitation to practice ski touring - mountaineering or how to mix ski touring practice and the use of mountaineering skills.
The entrance to the massif will be through the Diavolezza, one of the two ski lifts that allow access to these numerous slopes.

Late to be on skis at this time? No, because given the altitude, it is a massif that is practiced rather late in the season, to avoid the rigours of winter. The itinerary includes a ski touring ascent of Piz Bernina and Piz Roseg, crossing Piz Palü.
A magnificent route among the Swiss, both technical and high altitude.

Detailed program

J1	The first day puts us directly into the bath. We take the Diavolezza ski lifts which project us almost 1000m higher, in the high mountain area. The objective of the day is to cross the Piz Pälu with its photogenic ridge. So we go up the glacial slopes and then cross this mountain. Crossing down to Rifugio Marinelli at 2813m.	1090m D+ 1230m D-
J2	On paper the stage is short but the program is designed to be able to do the Bernina Piz on that day or the next day (to adapt as well as possible with the weather). Ascent from the Marinelli refuge to the Marco e Rosa refuge at 3597m, then, if the weather permits, we head towards the summit of our first 4000 of the Piz'Alp epic. Back down to the Marco e Rosa refuge.	1060m D+ 350m D-
J3	If the weather had not allowed us to do the Bernina summit the day before, we are trying our luck this morning. Then we go down from the refuge to put the skins back on and head for the Fuorcla da la Sella. From there, fast ski descent then first back skiing, we go up to Piz Roseg at 3936m. Descent from the summit on skis to Chamanna Coaz (by that you mean Coaz refuge).	1000m D+ 2000m D-
J4	From the refuge, climbed up in one go to reach the top of Chapütschin at 3387m. From there, we remove the skins for a great and beautiful descent to Sils Im Engadin, the end of our 4-day raid.	830m D+ 1650m D-

Required level

5 à 7 heures de ski par jour, bon niveau à ski en toutes neiges. Très bonne condition physique : entre 800 m et 1100 m de dénivelé par jour, le tout sur 4 journées qui s'enchaînent et en altitude.

Tu es un bon skieur et tu pratiques déjà le ski de randonnée. Tu souhaites faire un raid à ski mêlant ski et alpinisme (portage des skis sur le dos, crampons, arêtes) le tout sur des hauts sommets.

Techniquement, il faut bien évidemment être à l’aise dans les conversions à la montée. Différentes qualités de neige seront rencontrées : poudreuse, croûte, neige de printemps. Il faut donc savoir “skier toute neige”.

Accommodation and transportation

Nuitée en hôtel la veille du départ à St Moritz puis en refuge gardée confortable.
Lieu de départ et d’arrivée : Saint Moritz, Suisse. Rendez-vous le 13 Avril à 18h, retour le 17 Avril vers 15h.
Ce lieu est accessible en train et/ou bus, voiture.

For logistical reasons, transport from St. Moritz to the Diavolezza is included in the price. Then the return journey from Sils to St Moritz.

Project yourself on the route!

Prices and reservations

1830 € / personne

Passage in mountaineering (ridge for example) requiring a very tight supervision with 2 people max per guide.

Tarifs dégressifs : Si 1 personne, 2770€/pers. Si 2 personnes, 1830€/pers.

Motivated? GO!

The price includes

– Encadrement par un guide UIAGM
– 4 nuitées
– Pension complète incluant les petits-déjeuners, les collations ou pique-niques de midi, les repas du soir, depuis le 1er soir jusqu’au dernier midi
– Transport de St Moritz au téléphérique de la Diavolezza
– Transport retour de Sils à St Moritz
– Remontées mécaniques de la Diavolezza
– Les frais du guide

The price does not include

- Travel to the meeting point and return from the point of arrival
- Public transportation not included in the initial program
- All drinks, including those for meals and personal expenses (water sometimes paid for in the mountain huts)
- Expenses of a personal nature
- Anything not included in "the price includes"

Départ le 20 avril 2023

4 day(s)

1830 € / personne
Tarifs dégressifs : Si 1 personne, 2770€/pers. Si 2 personnes, 1830€/pers.

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