Comments on: Back in Austria — Heading for Silvretta http://www.wildsnow.com/1778/silvretta-traverse-backcountry-skiing/ Backcountry Skiing Weblog Blog, FAQs, more, links and info about randonnee, telemark and backcountry ski mountaineering. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:16:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Lou http://www.wildsnow.com/1778/silvretta-traverse-backcountry-skiing/comment-page-1/#comment-42602 Lou Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:11:11 +0000 http://www.wildsnow.com/?p=1778#comment-42602 Hi Cory, happy to help out. If you're up there in the spring and the weather looks ok, you probably don't need a guide (provided you're fairly experienced). You'd need good maps and have plotted everything on your GPS. If you rope up and follow the beat out route everyone else is taking, crevasse danger isn't a problem in spring until things start thawing in the afternoon. Another trick is just watch when guide leaves and follow (grin). If you can afford a guide it's still a good way to go, if not simply so they can help with nailing all the logistics. But be sure it's a guide you get along with as you don't need any sort of ayatollah stealing your joy, taking things too seriously... Lou Hi Cory, happy to help out. If you’re up there in the spring and the weather looks ok, you probably don’t need a guide (provided you’re fairly experienced). You’d need good maps and have plotted everything on your GPS. If you rope up and follow the beat out route everyone else is taking, crevasse danger isn’t a problem in spring until things start thawing in the afternoon. Another trick is just watch when guide leaves and follow (grin). If you can afford a guide it’s still a good way to go, if not simply so they can help with nailing all the logistics. But be sure it’s a guide you get along with as you don’t need any sort of ayatollah stealing your joy, taking things too seriously… Lou

]]> By: Cory http://www.wildsnow.com/1778/silvretta-traverse-backcountry-skiing/comment-page-1/#comment-42600 Cory Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:00:27 +0000 http://www.wildsnow.com/?p=1778#comment-42600 Lou (et al.) My wife and I are planning to do the Silvretta in late March/early April, and we have enjoyed reading about your trip. Quick question though. We have always taken our adventures on our own, but wondering if it would be best to hire a guide for this one. Thoughts? Ordinarily we wouldn't hesitate to just go for it, but we haven't skied in the Alps before. It seems your friends had quite a bit of knowledge about the route, etc. Absent that knowledge, would you suggest doing a first traverse guided? We are confident we can navigate from hut to hut, but are wondering about crevasse danger mostly. Thanks, Cory Lou (et al.)

My wife and I are planning to do the Silvretta in late March/early April, and we have enjoyed reading about your trip. Quick question though. We have always taken our adventures on our own, but wondering if it would be best to hire a guide for this one. Thoughts? Ordinarily we wouldn’t hesitate to just go for it, but we haven’t skied in the Alps before. It seems your friends had quite a bit of knowledge about the route, etc. Absent that knowledge, would you suggest doing a first traverse guided? We are confident we can navigate from hut to hut, but are wondering about crevasse danger mostly.

Thanks,

Cory

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]]> By: Tom Gos http://www.wildsnow.com/1778/silvretta-traverse-backcountry-skiing/comment-page-1/#comment-15302 Tom Gos Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:51:18 +0000 http://www.wildsnow.com/?p=1778#comment-15302 I'm laid up (torn shoulder labrum and rotator cuff - at least it was on a hut trip!)and living vicariously through these reports too. Keep up the good work Lou. I have to say I instantly cringed when you wrote that you were meeting at a Sixbucks in the Munich airport. Glad to see the photo of a more proper German refueling center. I’m laid up (torn shoulder labrum and rotator cuff – at least it was on a hut trip!)and living vicariously through these reports too. Keep up the good work Lou. I have to say I instantly cringed when you wrote that you were meeting at a Sixbucks in the Munich airport. Glad to see the photo of a more proper German refueling center.

]]> By: Tom http://www.wildsnow.com/1778/silvretta-traverse-backcountry-skiing/comment-page-1/#comment-15301 Tom Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:10:58 +0000 http://www.wildsnow.com/?p=1778#comment-15301 Yeah, I'm recovering from a torn labrum, so thanks for the stoke Lou. Have a great tour! Yeah, I’m recovering from a torn labrum, so thanks for the stoke Lou. Have a great tour!

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