Up The Rocks

The old guides' ski-tour in Armenia

This time we were honored to host the iconic mountain guides Jaccoux Claude and Alberto Re in Armenia. Despite their pretty solid ages a group of clients were following them also during this trip....

Ski touring in Georgia

During the ski tour program in Armenia last year, Philippe Descamps, with his group of skiers, was interested in the ski tour trip in Georgia for March 2013. The destinations that lure them were ...

"Eagle Ski Club" ski-touring in Armenia

“Eagles”, the way “Eagle ski club” members call themselves here, were the most cheerful group I have skied with! They said Bruce Goodlad, the organizer and the guide of the trip, had chose...

"Fox Mountains" ski-touring

Dani and Miriam Domingos were just purchased their Black Diamond ski-touring equipment, and we had to find an appropriate destination to “celebrate” that event ;)) And the area in southern mou...

Heliskiing in Armenia

On March 17-24, the program of heliskiing in Armenia run with sunny weather and good snow. With our guests from Austria, Germany, Holland and Spain we did about 30 First Descents, more tha...

French Ski-tour in Armenia

From Feb 25 to March 5, a French group was hosted by Up The Rocks for ski-touring program in Armenia. Among our honourable guests was the general secretary of Petzl foundation Philippe D...

Ski-touring in Armenia and more

Mystic basalt columns and limestone had been the initial motivation to travel to Armenia, but the potential for outdoor adventures took us by surprise as did the culturel experience. When ...

Dobré a bezpečné lyžování v Arménii

With Jan Pala, we had planned this trip around a year ago. Those times in his dreams the ski-alpinism and heliskiing in Armenia looked like amazing powder slopes and good weather.. . But let...

Ski-tour on Mt. Aragats 4090m

Andranik Miribyan, John Clinton and me set off to the village Aragats. The destination was to explore a new Ski-tour route for "Geographic Travel Club" www.geotravel.am. It has been planned t...