Each week during the winter season, our guests have a chance to go 'steep and deep' with Herby. It's a complimentary guiding service we offer to anyone staying at St Martin Chalets. Herby is a qualified skiing instructor and mountain rescuer - a "Hundführer" in fact (our black lab Jimbo is a trained mountain rescue dog) - so our guests are in good hands. They usually learn a thing or two about avalanches and the risks of skiing off piste too.

Here's a video from the 19th March. You can see one of our guests, a lovely Swedish lady called Anna Nilsson, bravely leading Herby down Grundleiten - St Michael's best loved off-piste bowl (perhaps not least because it's so easily accessible by chairlift!). The snow was pretty sticky that day - not easy - but everyone who went along enjoyed the day (or so they said!) and Herby tells me they all showed a marked improvement!

...There's only one way to learn to ski off piste, and that's just to get stuck in and try it!