Skiing in India:P?

If you're feeling flush...

http://http://skiunion.com/news/heliski-operation-opens-gulmarg-india.html

errr Charis=easy peasy

When are you going?

I'm headed to Gulmarg January 10-16!  I'll be skiing with http://ski-gulmarg.co.uk/

I haven't skied there before, but have only heard good things.  In fact, they got 2 feet of snow the other day.

A bunch of guys on TGR have been before.  Here are some forums:

http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/showthread.php?t=155460

http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/showthread.php?t=155464&highlight=gulmarg+kashmir

(sorry for the non-clickable links, my computer isn't letting me do anything today)

I've been to India but I've never skied there.  If you've never been to a 3rd world country before, prepare for some serious culture shock.  When you get off the train for the first time and get mobbed by 100 homeless people trying to sell you tea or just begging, its pretty gnarley.  You very quickly get the feeling that your not in Kansas anymore.

there are always political things going on in Kashmir.

and as I'm in route to India to go and ski Gulmarg, Srinagar, Kashmir's capital, had islamist attacks on it this morning.  I'm in the middle of a multi-stage plane flight over there, and now there's a possibility we'll have to make new plans.

damn it.

my sisters name is India CLAIM

India is on my list of places to visit to go ski

Sounds like quite the experience, but it is $$$$$. It might be once in a lifetime stuff, but I'm still balking at the cost to go there.

pep fujas and andy mahre just been in Gulmarg...


http://skiunion.mpora.com/featured-box/andy-mahre-pep-fujas-gulmarg.html

I'm pretty sure the ski areas in the Gulmarg have only been demilitarised for a few years. There was an articles about it in a journal a while back.

But either way, so few people ski there, you'll get a season's worth of powder build up in one run , since many of the runs are untouched.

you'll get a season's worth of powder if you hit it on the snow.  I just got back.  We totally missed on the snow.  But even considering that, I still think it was one of the most amazing ski trips I've ever done!  Which is saying something, because our guide, John Falkiner whose been guiding there since the early 90s, said this was the worst conditions he's ever had over there.  Thus, just to be safe, go in February or March where you'll have more luck with snow.

While we were there too, the Indian PM announced on the 5th that he was going to start pulling Indian troops out of Kashmir, then on the 6th, Pakistani terrorists bomb up a hotel in Srinagar (the city you fly into to get to Gulmarg).  Then when we're leaving last week we still start to see the first wave of Indian troops leaving the area.  People in India weren't even that sketched about going to an area recently bombed, to them it is still fine and beautiful... which it is.  It's really quite a neat experience to be skiing five miles from the Pakistan/Indian line of control and see Indian army camps scattered all over the high mountain ridges.