Tra Cielo e Neve

What To Expect

We limit our groups to 10 people or less a week, to provide a personal, quality experience.

Instruction, if desired, is included in all of our tours, athletes of all abilities.

We have daily and weekly programs, personalized to our client’s needs. The tour fees includes your hotel at the 3 star family run Hotel Impero Cortina (www.hotelimperocortina.it), with breakfast only, and parking. If you require more lavish accommodations, we can arrange this for you. Or, you are free to book accommodations for yourself. We will be glad to provide you with the websites to book four and five star hotels.

You are responsible for your transportation to and from Cortina (1.5 hrs north of the Venice airport). It is recommended that you rent a car, so that you are more mobile, as you may want to make an afternoon trip into Brunico (45min), Munich (3 hours away), Austria (30 minutes), or Venice. However, if you like, we can arrange for a taxi service for you.

All of the Cortina ski areas (18 in our region alone, the furthest of which is 1.5. hrs. drive or bus ride) are serviced by a free ski bus service, that passes by each ski area every 20 minutes. It’s really an amazing system. We also provide access to Ski System Cortina, which is a huge ski tuning and race preparation service. They also demo race stock skis, and freeride/big mountain/park skis. We have exclusive entry and use of this facility, and their techs. Occasionally, we can find World Cup equipment from one of the many WC and Europa Cup atletes who call Cortina home.

One lift ticket, the Dolomiti Superski, covers over 40 ski areas in Italy and Austria, and cost between 25-35 Euros per day, depending on length of stay. Upon arrival in Cortina, you will be referred to the Superski office, and can purchase your passes there.

All of our tours include video with our training service, and give you a DVD at least 3-4 days a week (weather depending), to do your “homework” if you bring your laptop.

We provide extreme tours, big mountain freeriding tours, and Ski tour weeks, where we just sample the enormous terrain possibilities of the Cortina region. If we get a small group of at least 2-10 people, and they want a sampling of all that we offer, we do that too, a little race training, extreme terrain, and general freeskiing, all in the same week. Again, race technique/instruction if desired, is included in all of our services.

For race training, we have access to hills with full timing, so that you can see the difference in technique alterations immediately. We have full course setting privileges on every hill in Cortina, and 3 on the Austrian border, 30 minutes north. This is where we do most of our SG gate training. It is not uncommon to be training next to world cup atletes, such as the German, Swedish, and Italian womens’ National teams, and the 12 WC athletes living in the area.

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