Goms

Some classics are well-worn tours that offer nothing more than a prestigious summit. Others are not important summits at all, but offer everything you need for a beautiful tour and have therefore rightly become classics.

In a snowy valley, where neither gondolas nor helicopters take skiers up the mountains and most peaks are over 1500 meters away, you are almost an exotic with your freeride equipment. And yet they do exist, the pearls for freeride tourers, with untouched powder slopes and steep gullies. It's best to spend a few days at the Galmihornhütte.

A pattern is emerging this (late) early winter. Changing fronts from the west, bringing sometimes cool, sometimes mild and humid air to the western slopes of the Alps. As with the Dumpicane, this is now the case again. After a few insignificant flakes of up to 10 cm today (an exception in Switzerland with 25 cm), it will start tomorrow (30.12.2011).