LOTA wrote:Fantasic. Wonderful pictures, thank you so much.
This has really whetted my appetite. I have skied with the Private Ski School in Arosa before and, looking on their website, found they do this 3-in-one-day tour - supplying the guide, transceiver, shovel, probe, airbag rucksack etc.
Really inspired to do this - especially if the weather is as good as it looks in these pictures. Interestingly an old Good Ski Guide from 1989 has the track from behind the Hornlihutte as a marked run; whether it was patrolled or not is not clear, but it was definitely a formal route.
So thanks again - will report back on what it was like.
It is a ski tour route marked on the SAC (Swiss Alpine Club) ski tour maps.It is also marked on the freeride maps and in the book "Die schönsten freeride touren in den Schweizer Alpen" (The most beautiful freeride tours in the Swiss Alps). So in that respect it can be considered an official route, but there is no signposting or security of any sort on the route. They do not bomb or control for avalanches and there is no ski patrol back there. If something goes wrong its up to the group to take care of itself and the only rescue is a helicopter.
I haven't been back there since the summer, but if conditions allow I will be back there over the Christmas holidays.