Backcountry Scotland

Backcountry Skiing in Scotland can be maddening, frustrating and disappointing but more often it can also be life affirming, awe inspiring and fantastic! Strike it right with the weather and with the snow conditions and you can have some of your best skiing days on the planet.

Nevis4 Backcountry

24/25 Season we will be offering an increased programme on home turf, we will be offering Introduction to Backcountry courses, Touring days, multi day Ski Expeditions, and later in the season when the snow consolidates, Steeps. Do not underestimate Scotish Backcountry, it can be fantastic and is a great training ground for moving on to the bigger mountains of the Alps. Let us introduce you to this side of the sport.

Introduction to Backcountry

Touring days

Steeps

Ski Expedition

If you are comfortable on touring skis, how about a ski adventure not to be forgotten. A three day Adventure through some of the best ski touring Scotland has to offer. Depending on conditions, we will camp or snow hole on the route we intend to ski, with a maximum of 1000m ascent on each day through some of the best scenery Scotland has to offer.

Dates : TBA

Price for this adventure: £250

Zero to Hero

An intense 4 day ski course followed by 2 days basic ski touring. This course is designed with existing Hill goers in mind, walkers, climbers and hill runners who are looking for an efficient and quick way to get around the hills in winter. Ski touring is a natural extension of other hill going disciplines.

The course will teach participants the basics of Alpine skiing and introduce the tools and techniques of Ski touring to them. The course can take place on snow or on a dry slope but the days touring will be on snow. At the end of the 6 days the participants should be able to perform linked turns down a gentle slope and be able to skin up to make an ascent. If you have no background in skiing but would love to learn to tour, this could be the course for you.

Zero to Hero dates

Next Zero to Hero dates are 3 Jan-6th of January 2024 at Bearsden ski club in Glasgow followed by 2 days basic touring at Glencoe ski centre when conditions permit. Due to weather constraints we have priced these separately.

The price for the 4 days Zero to Hero course is £380 per person. This includes slope use and kit hire..

with a maximum of 6 participants. We will also be subject to a minimum of 4 participants

The price for the 2 days basic touring at Glencoe is £190.

This does not include the price of a lift ticket but does include hire of touring kit if required (£20 less if own kit used)

Booking

Please use the contact form for more details, or to book, email mail@nevis4.com