07 Jan Multi country ski experiences: our secret to excellence

If you want to be really good at something, such as multi country ski experiences, then you need to put all of your focus on that thing. For us this means focusing on our tiny corner of the Alps where Italy, Switzerland and France touch. We have family in all of these countries and we have been running winter and summer trips in this region for over 20 years.

The power of relationships

Living and working in the same place means you develop strong relationships with the people you work with. They see you regularly, they know how you work and they understand the standards you expect from them. After 20 years people are not doing it for money anymore, more for the mutual respect and the joy that we all get from the small details which make our multi-country ski experiences. These details are something that people who do not live in the region, or do this job on the ground every day, do not even know exists. This knowledge and these relationships are powerful.

Satisfaction from excellence

Living all year round where we run our multi-country ski experiences gives us chance to really excel and be completely in the moment. I often find myself at a loss when I have finished a trip. I forget passwords, birthdays and day-to-day appointments. This is because I become so engrossed in the trip, the guests and what we are trying to achieve for them. There is nothing more exciting or satisfying than working this way. It is a little like coming back from the moon. Returning from a week at high altitude can feel just like coming back to civilisation.

What does this mean for our guests?

Loving what we do makes it easy to create excellent multi-country ski experiences for you, our guests. We don’t focus on what we want, we use our knowledge to achieve what you want, so no two trips are the same. This is perhaps the hardest thing to communicate to new guests. The magic that can only be achieved through real local expertise is not reflected in an itinerary as the itinerary is just the guide. What actually happens on the trip depends on so many different factors: you the participants, the weather, the snow pack in the winter, the temperature and trail state in the summer.

Last summer I  wrote off a hiking trail after being bitten by a tick. I came back and changed the whole plan. I was not about to take my guests on that trail for fear that they might also be bitten. It sounds like a small detail but these little details are difficult to explain to a new guest. You would have thought that I would have worked it out by now. All I can say is, you are in the hands of experts. Tell us your dreams and then lets us get to work.

Warm regards from the mountains.

Danielle