RETURN TO FRANCE WITH INSTRUCTOR-LED GUIDING
Boost your skiing as French travel restrictions ease and find your way around the whole mountain in style with ILG days across the Alps.
The Club’s ILG service is a fun, affordable way to learn from top instructors and mountain guides
The Ski Club’s Instructor-led-Guiding service-informally known by the Club as simply ILG - has become a cornerstone of its on-snow offering throughout France and the wider Alps. Introduced some years ago as a response to increased restrictions on Leading in the French Alps, it has grown and flourished into an invaluable service for our Members.
It has seemed virtually impossible to ski at times this season; a trip to the mountains leaving you swimming in COVID tests and drowning in paperwork, ticking myriad boxes simply to board a flight.
For many Members, the first week of skiing this season will be the first in several years, as the pandemic washed away spring plans in 2020 and then theentire2020/21 season. Finding your ski legs and remembering how to ski your favourite lines, always a challenge in the past, will be that bit more difficult this season. So why not join our experts to whip your powder skiing back into shape? Find your way around the whole mountain in the safe hands of our guides, powered by New Generation Ski & Snowboard School.
New Gen have been working with the Club since the launch of the ILG service and understand exactly what our Members want from a day on the wrong–or right–side of the piste marker. We also work with a handful of trusted independent guides in some resorts, such as Flaine and Les Deux Alpes, with a weekly schedule tha tvaries between resorts. Our headline resorts, Tignes and Val d’Isère, will see sessions take place every day, ranging from an introductory session exploring the vast shared ski area to full days ripping up the extraordinary off-piste terrain on the roof of the Tarantaise region.
Elsewhere, the Three Valleys host regular sessions at Méribel and Courchevel. We alternate our full day sessions in Méribel and Courchevel to allow skiers in both resorts to hop over the valley and explore the whole region. The resort shuttle sand first lifts linking La Tania and Les Menuires further enable Members in these resorts to join the fun.
Each resort sees three types of sessions run each week: two half-day sessions, one on-piste Resort Orientation and the other Introduction to Off-Piste ; and full-day Off-Piste Adventure sessions. The number of full-day sessions vary depending on the resort, with large resorts such as Val d’Isère and Tignes hosting four days each while smaller resorts offer just one.
Méribel and Courchevel alternate two days a week each, providing four days for those in the Three Valleys. The meeting points and timings for several resorts are designed to allow Members based in neighbouring resorts the chance to join our ILG sessions.
Alongside La Tania and Les Menuires mentioned earlier, our sessions in Argentière open up the entire Chamonix valley and provide a gateway to some of the world’s most famous and exhilarating off-piste terrain.
Avoriaz offers a fabulous jumping off point for those based in Morzine, its higher altitude offering greater snow surety and a better chance of powder, whilst retaining an easy connection to the lower resort using public transport.
It is a requirement on all Ski Club off-piste holidays, courses and ILG sessions to carry an avalanche transceiver, metal shovel and collapsible probe at all times. New Generation will be able to supply this equipment when booking with them.
ILG RESORTS 2022
France: Argentière, Avoriaz, Courchevel (1850), Flaine, La Plagne, Les Arcs, Les Deux Alpes, Méribel, Tignes, Val d’Isère and Val Thorens. Austria: St Anton. Switzerland: Verbier.
Don’t forget to join us from a neighbouring resort!