SVANETI SKITOURING PROGRAM - 8 Days
Day 1 - Meet up at the Tbilisi/Kutaisi airport late night / early morning when flights arrive.
Transfer to Svaneti - overnight in Mestia.
Meals included : dinner
Accomodation included: guesthouse
Day 2 - Tetnuldi
This first day is a warmup day on Tetnuldi ski resort, we check out off-piste conditions and do a short climb with skins at the end of the day. The atmosphere at the foot of the glaciers is great and gives you an idea of what's awaiting you for the coming week.
Meals included : breakfast & dinner
Accomodation included: guesthouse
Day 3 - Koruldi Mountain
We start skinning in Mestia at 1500 m high for a beautiful day's touring, climb up above the rests until we get to the hut where we'll spend the night, a renovated wooden hut, you'll really feel you're in Georgia, beside the fireplace.
Meals included : breakfast & dinner
Accomodation included: Mountain Hut
Ascent/descent: +/- 1200 m
Day 4 - Chalaadi Glacier
From the mountain hut we start skinning and climb up to 3700 m above sea level to Chalaadi glacier. This is one of the best place for powder skiing in Svaneti. A long descent will take us back to the valley.
Meals included : breakfast & dinner
Accomodation included: guesthouse
Ascent/descent: +/- 1100 m
Day 5 - Ushguli, Lamaria mountain.
In the early hours of the day we set off for Ushguli, the highest inhabited village in Europe (2200 m), close to the border with Chechnya. In this place out of this world, you're be warlmy Welcomed by the locals. We'll ski one of the several valleys that opens up to us to reach our guesthouse and well deserved dinner.
Meals included : breakfast & dinner
Accomodation included: guesthouse
Ascent/descent: +/- 1000 m
Day 6 - Ushguli, Latpari pass.
Situated between upper and lower Svaneti, we'll go and admire the panorama that the highest mountains of the Caucasus have to offer us. At the end of the day we take a shuttle to Mestia.
Meals included : breakfast & dinner
Accomodation included: guesthouse
Ascent/descent: +/- 1000 m
Day 7 - Etseri village
Etseri is located at 1600 m above sea level at the foot of Mount Ushba, 4710 m high, one of the most remarkable peaks of the Caucasus. We make the most of the last curves on the nice slopes leaving you on top of the world.
Meals included : breakfast & dinner
Accomodation included: guesthouse
Ascent/descent: +/- 1100 m
Day 8 - Breakfast and transfer to Tbilisi/Kutaisi.
Free evening in Tbilissi.
Meal included : breakfast only
Accomodation included: guesthouse