Terrain nobody else is on
The whole point is ground that lift infrastructure does not reach. In our zones there is no lift-served skiing at all and only one group operating at a time, so what fell overnight is still there in the afternoon.
Cat skiing explained
What is cat skiing?
What cat skiing is and what it is not — how it works, where it beats a helicopter and a chairlift, and where it does not.
The short version
A snowcat instead of a lift.
Cat skiing means being driven to the top of a run in a snowcat — a tracked vehicle that crosses deep snow and steep ground — instead of taking a lift. The cat reaches terrain no lift serves, drops you at the top, then meets you at the bottom and takes you back up. Repeat all day.
It sits between ski touring and heliskiing. You get access to untracked terrain without earning every metre on skins, and without a helicopter budget.
What it gets you
Four things a lift cannot do.
Snow that has not been tracked out
Because the areas are not groomed or skied by a resort crowd, the snow stays soft. This is the difference people notice first.
A day built around your group
Twelve people, two guides, and terrain chosen on the morning’s conditions. If the group wants steeper, there is steeper. If it wants mellow and long, there is that too.
More skiing than touring gets you
A day of ski touring might give you one or two descents. A cat day gives you six or seven, because the machine does the climbing.
What it costs you
The honest side.
It is not cheap
Cat skiing costs more than a lift pass because you are paying for a machine, its fuel, its operator and two guides, spread across a small group. Our seven-day tour is €2,250 per person, which covers transfers, accommodation, all meals, guiding and avalanche equipment as well as five days on the cat.
The weather decides
Conditions can change the plan. Days can be moved, zones swapped, or skiing stopped altogether if the snowpack or the wind says so. Any operator who tells you otherwise is selling you something.
You are not on a lift
A cat is slower than a chairlift. There is waiting, there is riding, and some drop-off points need a ten-minute hike to reach the top properly.
It asks something of you
You need to ride off-piste confidently in variable snow. Not expertly — but a cat-ski week is not the place to learn.
Cat skiing or heliskiing?
More vertical, or more days.
A helicopter is faster and reaches more remote ground. It is also several times the price, and it is grounded by weather that a snowcat drives straight through. On a low-visibility day a heli operation waits; the cat runs.
Put simply: heliskiing gives you more vertical on the days it flies. Cat skiing gives you more days.
What we run. One Pisten Bully 300 with a heated cabin built in-house for up to fifteen people. Thirty minutes from the pick-up point to a ridge at 2,400 metres, across three zones above Deçan in the Accursed Mountains. Twelve guests maximum, one group in the zone at a time, and no other operator working this terrain.
Enquiries
Tell us when you want to come.
Dates for the 2027 season are set with each group. We reply to every enquiry within twelve hours. No deposit is taken at this stage.