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Zailiyskiy Alatau Mountains: A 1-Day Backcountry Tour Guide For Freeride Enthusiasts
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28 Ratings
Almaty
Join our experienced mountain guides for a 1-day backcountry tour in the Zailiyskiy Alatau Mountains. Discover new spots, bag the best lines, and develop your backcountry skills!
Join our experienced mountain guides for a 1-day backcountry tour in the Zailiyskiy Alatau Mountains. Discover new spots, bag the best lines, and develop your backcountry skills!
Duration:
1 day
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- Butakovka - Freeride below the treeline in the Zailiiskiy Alatau
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spend your winter enjoying the snowy slopes far from the pistes and lifts!
We’ll ride new spots every day, focussing on couloirs, valleys and peaks below the treeline.
Almaty is a modern, bustling city situated in the foothills of the Tien Shan mountains. Its location means it…
- Butakovka - Freeride below the treeline in the Zailiiskiy Alatau
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spend your winter enjoying the snowy slopes far from the pistes and lifts!
We’ll ride new spots every day, focussing on couloirs, valleys and peaks below the treeline.
Almaty is a modern, bustling city situated in the foothills of the Tien Shan mountains. Its location means it offers almost unlimited possibilities for backcountry skiing and snowboarding within a short drive of the city.
- We’re happy to organise the programme on dates to suit your group
- please contact us for more information.
What's Included
- Guided ski experience
- Round-trip transfer from Almaty
- Included fees and taxes
- All tour-related transfers
- Complimentary avalanche equipment rental
- Guided ski experience
- Round-trip transfer from Almaty
- Included fees and taxes
- All tour-related transfers
- Complimentary avalanche equipment rental
Additional Information
Take a guided freeride tour with our experienced mountain guides to discover new spots and bag the best lines! The Zailiyskiy Alatau mountains present almost unlimited opportunities for backcountry riding and offer something for everyone, from newbies right through to the most seasoned pros. Whatever it is that floats your boat, we’ll help you find it –…
Take a guided freeride tour with our experienced mountain guides to discover new spots and bag the best lines! The Zailiyskiy Alatau mountains present almost unlimited opportunities for backcountry riding and offer something for everyone, from newbies right through to the most seasoned pros. Whatever it is that floats your boat, we’ll help you find it – couloirs, rock drops, tree runs, or simply untouched fields of the deepest, fluffiest powder. Join a guided tour to find out more about these beautiful mountains, spend time exploring far from pistes, roads and skilifts, and develop your backcountry skills.
Guided tours are a great option for people who can ride confidently on the piste but are new to offpiste riding, as well as for those with years of experience in the backcountry. Our guides will choose routes to match the ability of the group, ensuring your experience will be fun and enjoyable.
Location
Guest House on Sadovaya
We can pick you up from the airport or any hotel in Almaty
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
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(28 Ratings)
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W964ah_
Mar 27, 2024
Highly recommend it! - Safe and nice day trip during my vacation in Almaty. Thanks to Max and the crew. Did it last year and came back this year again.
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Danil
Feb 27, 2024
1 day ski trip - We walked with Maxim around the outskirts of the Butakovo gorge. Maxim is a very competent and interesting guide. Not only does he tell a lot of interesting things from both the technical side and stories from life. The main thing in activities with Maxim is safety; while the group is resting, he checks the slopes and chooses the safest and most importantly interesting ones, suitable for the group’s experience. I recommend him one hundred percent as a ski touring guide!
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Kompotm
Feb 26, 2024
Shim(Chim)Bulak - the best guides here! - My wife and I have different levels of skiing. I am a fairly experienced rider, and my wife is a beginner. It was important for us to find accompaniment for our period of stay in the Almaty Mountains. But, as usual, we realized it at the last moment. Contact FrozenRocks. Maxim responded very quickly and was able to find a guide, Yulia, for us.
Yulia found out all our capabilities, the presence/absence of equipment and the conditions for working with us) She helped select equipment for my wife, and, assessing our skills, allocated her time - she herself began retraining my wife for freeride, and for me she outlined routes for independent freeride in the vicinity of the pistes. It turned out to be very effective! As a result, we received both training and an excellent gurney. In addition, Yulia helped with planning our time and skiing program not only in Shambulak, but also at other resorts in the region. The end of the trip was backcountry skiing with Oleg for me and independent skiing for my wife. Oleg is also an excellent guide. In half a day of skiing, he and I managed to drive through places where I had not yet skied on my own, as well as carry out two hour-long ascents and descents on the virgin snow of nearby slopes!
In general, thanks to FrozenRocks - Maxim, Yulia and Oleg, we managed to fully realize our plans and have a great ride! All the guys are attentive, clear and positive! Highly recommended, as they say!)
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Ron
Feb 12, 2024
Custom 3 days of skiing - We had a great time with Max. He did a custom 3 day ski trip with us for a couple of days at 2 ski resorts and one day of touring. He was very knowledgeable, helpful and great at finding us amazing snow and powder. Highly recommend!
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Fearless35676381963
Feb 10, 2024
Skitour with FrozenRocks - Perfection is the right word to describe my experience with FrozenRocks. Staring from answering plenty of my questions well in advance before the trip, provide me advices about accomodation and services availability in Kazakhstan through highly qualified guiding and end up comfortable transfers. I plan to come back for skitouring fun with FrozenRocks again.
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152filippab
Jan 10, 2024
Brilliant, beautiful experience! - We had a really great experience! We are experienced skiiers but had never done Backcountry skiing. Our guide, Maxim, was really patient with us. He has a lot of experienced and found the perfect hike for us, which we enjoyed from the start to the end. He is also a very nice guy, with proficient English skills, so we had great conversations. We can highly recommend booking this tour if you would like to explore the Tian Shan mountains off the beaten track!
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Nickilista
Mar 5, 2023
Great Almaty experience - I’m not used to leave reviews, but Max really deserves it. Professional, precise and very kind. I spent two days with him, one skiing and one hiking in a wonderful Canyon. If you wanna enjoy Almaty’s natural beauties Max is your best choice
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Feriat2019
Feb 10, 2023
First time ski touring with Max -- amazing! - We went ski touring together with Maxim, for the first time in our lives. Communication before the tour was clear and understandable, Maxim helped not only with renting one split board, but also recommended a place for an excellent rental of a second board; he showed a video from the location in advance. On the day of the tour we met exactly on time, quickly got to the place. Maxim is careful with regard to safety, performs group checks, patiently walks us through a new sport for us. We climbed up the picturesque valley, timing turned out exactly as expected. It is important to go ski touring not for the sake of skiing (it is very short in time), but also just to enjoy the views, a mini-hike. The atmosphere during the ascent was just like hiking, everyone helped each other. Maxim suggested some techniques, and provided practice. We finished climbing tired but happy, had a snack and went down. The local snow was very different from the one we are used to: very crumbly, almost entirely composed of facets. But you get used to it and get a lot of pleasure from unrolled wide slopes.
I highly recommend Maxim as a guide, we match on interests and manner of communication, and hope to go again!
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_g5198kh
Feb 9, 2023
I'm going to join their tours again. - I took the 1-day ski-tour trip with these guys. It was a fine sunny day with amazing views!
On the way downhill the weather got very foggy but thanks to the guide we all came back safe and sound.
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W7939qbmn
Feb 5, 2023
Excellent tour near by Almaty - I have participated in skitour with Frozen Rocks in February 2023 and had a nice experience being part of that tour. All participants were good companions and we have spend good time on a whole route. The tour was well organized and performed. We made very memorizable descents on the slopes of Kok-Zhailau place.
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