Splitboard Touring Guide
Do you love to explore the backcountry with the Splitboard and discover untouched slopes far away from the hustle and bustle of the ski resorts?
In our selected List/Map of Splitboard Routes you will find suggestions of all difficulty levels.
Your independent tour planning is supported by detailed tour descriptions, route sketches, GPS tracks, the current weather and avalanche information and a route planner with slope angle maps.
Touring Conditions
We and the community are looking forward to your feedback and information about the current tour conditions. You can post your trips reports and photos directly at the respective route description.
We are also very curious about your touring tips and look forward if you share your experiences and tour information here with us.
Wonderful valley crossing with the Splitboard or touring ski - many downhill runs for experienced explorers.
Easy short tour also suitable after the end of the lift operation. With a beautiful view of the Ötscher and the Gemeindealpe.
Very rarely used, scenic and very attractive Voralpentour (Estergebirge) - with a difficult wayfinding in mid winter and a steep end!
A classic ski mountaineering peak in the Sellrain Valley, directly beside the education trail of the Lampsenspitze.
Very popular backcountry route with open spaced, western downhill slopes. Rarely difficult but relatively long.
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Riding high? above 3000m
Fat scenery in the area of Mont Blanc, the risks involved are not to be underestimated, descent on the Mer de Glace br
More challenging route on the Wildspitze peak from Vent.
Short glacier splitboard / ski tour to the highest peak of the Stubai Alps.
Final summit of the Vent Oetztal Loop - How to do it best with the Splitboard.
Travel with a Splitboard
Far places wanted? Splitboarding destinations
Suppose you have one or two weeks of vacation and want to go on a splitboarding and freeride trip. Your friends can not make it so you are forced with two options:
Monte Rosa was our plan, Gran Paradiso under best conditions the experience. Once again, the weather conditions showed us how important proper tour planning and alternative destinations are and how the microclimate can vary in the mountains.
First turns of the winter! Shortly a week before the season starts in the Eastern Alps, in Norway it never ended.
Never ended? Watch the video!
After the hottest February on record, and temperatures hitting 17° it was on the cards to cancel the event. But with a small blip in the chart it was time to cross fingers and hold out. It was a good call, storms came in and plastered the Cairngorms with 5 days of snow and wind. It was on!
With the Goodboards Team at Backyard Austria. Doing avalanche training and some good rides with the upcoming splitboards.
If you draw a line on a world map between Kitzbühel in Austria and Niseko in Japan then Kazakhstan biggest city is located right in the middle. Almaty has a rich history of mountaineering and alpine skiing. Sebastian from roninsnowboards.com was exploring the Tian Shan Mountains in the Ile-Alatau National Park near Almaty last spring. Here is his report.
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