11 - 13 July 2025, Friday - Sunday, 3 days
Alpine tour course with application tours Sustli | rock, snow and ice with mountain guide
The fascination of mountaineering: learn and experience!
Technics
Endurance
The Sustli area with its impressive gneiss mountains, small but wild glaciers together with the well-catered Sustlihütte and the Grassenbiwak are perfect for learning mountaineering. In this course we will learn the techniques of alpine touring together. We will do cool tours and learn what to look out for. In the first few days we will look at the basics on short tours and discuss how to plan alpine tours. In the following days, we'll put what we've learnt into practice on some of the great tours in the area. We will spend the first two nights in the Sustli hut and the last night in the secluded, idyllic Grassen bivouac. Here we will cook together and enjoy the sunset and sunrise directly from the bivouac.
Course content and possible programme
- Day: Rock basics
- Getting to know each other and cosy hut ascent (~1.5h)
- Moving and belaying in the rock
- Materials science
- Day: Rock deepening on an easy application tour
- Short rope, micro rope lengths and rope lengths on an easy application tour
- Abseiling on high tours
- Tour planning for the next day
- Day: Grassen application tour with ice training
- Ice and firn technique with ice axe and crampons
- Topic crevasses and behaviour on the glacier
- Cosy get-together in the secluded Grassenbiwak
- The Grassenbiwak is perfectly equipped. We will take the food from the Sustlihütte with us. The cooking and sleeping facilities in the bivouac are fantastic. Much quieter than the weekend hustle and bustle of the Sustlihütte 😉
- Day: Application tour and descent
- Repetition and consolidation of the various techniques
- Short application tour and descent back to the Susten Pass
- Day: Rock basics
Venue & meeting point
- Meeting point: Thursday, 9.37 Meien, Sustenbrüggli (to coincide with the bus connection)
- For the dates in June: meet in Altdorf and travel together by Alpen Taxi to the Susten Pass.
- Conclusion: Sunday, approx. 14.30, to coincide with the bus connection
- Overnight stay: two nights in the Sustlihütteone night in the Grassenbiwak
- The Grassenbiwak is perfectly equipped. We will take the food from the Sustlihütte with us. The cooking and sleeping facilities in the bivouac are fantastic. Much quieter than the weekend hustle and bustle of the Sustlihütte 😉
- Meeting point: Thursday, 9.37 Meien, Sustenbrüggli (to coincide with the bus connection)
Requirements
- No previous experience is necessary.
- Experience in hiking and walking in pathless terrain is an advantage.
- Condition for high altitude tours with around 1000hm ascent and descent at a comfortable pace (~300hm/h).
Group size
- Takes place with 4 - 6 guests per mountain guide.
Price and services
- CHF 1140.-
- Including planning and realisation with mountain guide and his travel expenses.
- Including accommodation costs, approx. CHF 80 per night with half board.
- Excluding travel expenses, personal consumption.
- Rental equipment: crampons, helmet, ice axe, climbing harness can be hired for this offer from the Sport Trend Shop in Hinwil can be hired at a special price of CHF 55. You can also get other mountain sports equipment there with the best advice.
Material and equipment
- We have for you a detailed packing list with packing tips compiled.
- For this tour you need the following material from this PDF. We carry our equipment with us all the time. Pack only what is necessary.
- Rental equipment: crampons, helmet, ice axe, climbing harness can be hired for this offer from the Sport Trend Shop in Hinwil can be hired at a special price of CHF 55. You can also get other mountain sports equipment there with the best advice.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us, preferably directly at Jonas or via the Contact form.
That's what our guests say:
Chris Steffen
3-day alpine tour course on the Weissmies in Valais with mountain guide Jonas: The training, including routes, was continuously adapted to the needs and fitness of the participants. The necessary basic knowledge was taught in a very practical way and with a lot of humour - that's how you learn quickly and successfully. THANK YOU FOR THE UNFORGETTABLE WEEKEND!
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