Courmayeur Skiing Advice and Off Piste Guide

All guides cost around £350 a day. My suggestion is you put down the money and ask them to leave open to additional clients, as they are effectively continually getting requests. The classic VB is typically what any guide would take you on anyway for first day (above link). It is their professional reputation, so they are not in the habit of letting clients evaluate their own skills; see before you believe

Find a good guide and use them summer and winter is my recommendation.

I actually have a guide booked 13-14th is anyone is about.

Thanks again Ranchero. Is the classic VB as easy and flat as I am worried it may be? I don't care about skiing things to say I've done it. I want great experiences. I love skiing in the backcountry and have enjoyed a few ski tours in the past and avoiding the path most traveled can also be rewarding.

That does not mean I'm opposed to the classic VB at all. Some things are classic for a reason! But I don't have a sense for just how boring/flat it is and just how wide open it is for giving that nice feeling of being out in nature. Paying 500 euro to end up skiing with 5000 people around us snowplowing their way down would be kind of brutal.

As I said before, since the weather this next week looks so bad, I'm anticipating marginal snow conditions and would definitely be open to a ski tour heavy on the hiking and the experience of going fun places and ending up in cozy villages versus classic downhill routes.

Are there any ski tours you'd strongly recommend leaving from Courmayeur? I'd say any hikes between 500-1500m would be fun for us and our primary requirement is that the ascent is not overly technical (mainly just hiking and not needing ropes/axes). Any thoughts? Of course it'd be fine to combine hiking with lift serviced areas to get the most out of it.

Sadly the 13/14th are a few days too early!