Wild catskiing week in Kosovo

 Includes

• 7 nights at the hotel Grand Gieravica – Full board breakfast, lunch & dinner
• 6 days catskiing
• An average of 4 catski runs per day or more with an average of a 1000 vertical meters per run
• Transfers on and off the mountain from the meeting point
• Two local guides
• One WSA guide
• Transfers on and off the mountain
• Avalanche equipment; probe, shovel, tranciever and BCA backpack
• For groups bigger than 6 persons we will organize all transfers in Kosovo for free

Does not include

• International flights to and from Pristina
• Alcohol, soft drinks and tour snacks.
• Insurances
• Ski / Snowboard touring gear
• Anything that’s not in the includes section.

Accomodation – rating comfort

Owned and manged by a local family, the Krasniqi hotel is located in the Ereniku valley on the south face of the Gjeravica peak at 1750 m altitude.

During winter months and heavy storms it feels like the biggest and best place you have ever stayed at. With an open fire place on the hotel’s „multi purpose“ ground level will let you enjoy a bit of apres ski mood. No worries for your beer supply, there is plenty of it and it’s cheap. Not to mention that we are „Sabja“ ambassadors – first Kosovo craft beer.

Selfsustainable in electricity with a supply from our water turbine and power generator if needed, means no big power suckers in hotel. Internet will work until snow covers the antenas , in which case we go on a rescue internet mission and dig it out.

There is for sure no need for a menu a la carte after you taste some of the local „ORGANIC BY DEFAULT“ cuisine that is served here.

Access

Taxi fromPristina airport around 1,5h to your meeting point

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Meeting point is in Junik at Restaurant „Trofta“  a traditional family restaurant, there speciality is trout fish , which is also name of the restaurant in Albanian language.

Please aim to arrive around 16h and depending on the arrival times of the whole group we will organize transfers to the mountain accordingly. So no fixed time for departure to the mountain. Please have in mind that transfer to the hotel will take 2 – 2, 5 hours, depending on conditions. We will first travel with off road vehicles and then a snow cat to reach the hotel. Take some warm clothing for the ride up, the mountain is unpretictable!

Insurances

• leisure sports activities
• worldwide repatriation
• helicopter mountain rescue with no geographical or altitude limits
• accident
• Illness
• cancellations
• and whatever you feel necessary

Guides

Two certified local area expert guides and one WSA Swiss certified Freeride and Ski touring guide for 6 full days

Safety tips / Health

This is a Freeride package, you need to be able to ski powder and unprepared snow comfortably.

A good physical health is needed.

No need to worry about Altitude sickness, you have plenty of time to adapt and we will make sure to not move up to fast on your first riding day.

Please mention any health conditions, any allergies or serious medicationyou may be taking when you book with us.

Avalanche Risks and safety

Avalanche danger in mountains is always present.

WSA has years of experience at recognizing areas and snow conditions that are a high avalanche hazard, to avoid them.

We will make sure on the first day that everyone has the adequate gear and knows how to use it. We will provide you with a tutorial on this topic.

Thought you must accept all the risks that come with skiing remote and uncontrolled areas.

The correct mountain attitude is of essence.

Gear

 Ski/Snowboard freeride Gear

We advise you to use suitable gear, freeride gear

We can help you prepare your complete gear list, just contact WSA.

 Avalanche safety gear

• The compulsory trio : shovel, probe and transceiver (included in this package)
• ABS bag, not compulsory but advised
• Extra batteries for the beacon