The full winter week, and the shape most of our winters are built around: Hatsvali and Tetnuldi to find your legs, two days of guided freeride, a ski touring day on skins, a gentle day on snowshoes, and a guided farewell morning in Mestia — towers, museum, market and Svan salt — before the transfer out.
Hard days early, soft days late: that is the order a week actually wants, and this one is built that way. Inside the price sit the Svan guide daily, lift passes on the days you ride lifts, the Kutaisi airport group transfer both ways, our own vehicles throughout the region, and a Mestia room with breakfast and dinner. Six people, one guide, one car.
Classic or Signature
For skiers giving Svaneti a proper week — the shape most of our winters are built around.
Day by day
Warm-up day on the Zuruldi ridge: short lifts, forest runs, the guide reads your level.
The big alpine mountain: long open runs to 3,160 m with views to Ushba and Tetnuldi.
Off-piste inside the Tetnuldi and Hatsvali zones. The guide picks the lines and watches avalanche safety.
Off-piste inside the Tetnuldi and Hatsvali zones. The guide picks the lines and watches avalanche safety.
Signature: Cat skiing, Tetnuldi Alpine — Pistenbully into high alpine terrain: 6-7 runs of 500-600 vertical metres. Snowcat 2000 EUR/day shared by 13 riders.
Jeep to the day's best snow, then 1,000-1,500 vertical metres of skinning. Transceivers included. No lift, no pass.
Forests, frozen meadows and Svan villages on snowshoes. A gentle day that suits any level.
Signature: Heliskiing - one drop — One helicopter drop on an untouched face, then a guided descent. The highlight of the trip.
Svan towers and the museum with the guide before the transfer out.
What is included
- A local Svan guide with the group every day
- All travel inside Svaneti in our own vehicles
- Lift passes on the days you ride lifts
- Group transfer from Kutaisi airport and back
- A room in Mestia with breakfast and dinner
Not included
- Flights and travel insurance
- Lunch on the mountain
- A room to yourself (single supplement on request)
- Helicopter and snowcat, unless the programme names them
Your guides
Shako MargianiAthlete · IFMGA & GMGA certified
Lasha PirtskhelianiIFMGA & GMGA mountain guide
Galo JapharidzeAlpine ski racer & guide · GMGA certified
Dato GuledaniMountain guide · GMGA certifiedCertified local Svan guides. We guide in English, Georgian and Svan.
Dates are flexible — tell us yours and we build the departure around them. Solo travellers can join a group that is already forming.
Questions we hear before this trip
When does the winter season run?
From 20 December to the end of April. Dates inside that window are flexible.
How big is the group?
Six people, one guide, one car — the per-person price is built on exactly that. If a party grows past six, we split it by activity — part of the group on one programme while the rest do another, swapping the next day — and each sub-group is priced by its own rule.
Can a solo skier join the week?
Yes — a single traveller can join a departure that is already forming.
How strong a skier should I be?
The week is ordered so it builds: Hatsvali first, where the guide reads your level on forest runs, then Tetnuldi, freeride only after you have found your legs, then the skin track, then snowshoes. One Svan guide skis with the same six people all week.
What is included, and what is not?
Included: the Svan guide each day, lift passes on the days you ride lifts, the group transfer from Kutaisi airport and back, all travel inside the region in our own vehicles, and a room in Mestia with breakfast and dinner. Not included: flights, insurance, lunch on the mountain, a room to yourself — and the helicopter and snowcat unless the programme names them.