6 Day Cat Skiing in Bakhmaro

Cat Skiing in Georgia is an incredible experience, as you will dive through breathtaking landscapes, virgin snow, and backcountry terrain that will make your heart race. Bakhmaro, which is typically a vibrant and lively mountain resort in the summer, becomes completely abandoned in the winter. Residents flee their wooden houses from the heavy snowfall each year, making way for deep snow chasers and alpine adventurists traveling to experience cat skiing in Georgia.

This winter ghost town becomes covered in 3-5 meters of snow, leaving just the roofs of the cabins to peak out from below. Uninhabited and free of tourist infrastructure, Bakhmaro is the ultimate cat skiing in Georgia destination, entirely free of ski-lifts or ski resorts. To reach this winter paradise, you need to take a cat ski from the bottom, as the snow barricades regular cars and 4×4’s out from the village. 

During the tour, you’ll ski through picturesque walnut and fir trees that densely populate the terrain surrounding Bakhmaro. Above the tree line, you’ll plunge through endless open alpine bowls, with the deepest and softest snow you’ve ever touched. You’ll drop off and glide your way down through serene Bakhmaro alpine landscapes, while simultaneously viewing the beautiful Black sea on one side, and the iconic Central Caucasus peaks on the other. Check out our other cat skiing in Georgia tours here, where we offer cat skiing in combination with ski touring and heliskiing. 

This unique location on the Northern slopes of the lesser Caucasus benefits from a unique air mass (from the nearby Black Sea) which produces some of the lightest, driest powder snow in the world. This region receives endless snow storms, granting us a long season for catski, ski tour, and helisking from December to March. 

Surrounding Bakhmaro are mostly North facing terrain with steep couloirs and pillow lines.  The wide space to steep tight tree lines sometimes exceed 1000m in a single vertical drop, leading you down through the village houses below. There are endless variations and ranges of deep powder lines to be discovered and pioneered by those with the adventure spirit.

Because of our access to both heliski and catski, and the combination of alpine terrain, opportunities are endless here in Bakhmaro. On low visibility storm days, you can except to take the catski up and drop into majestic pine tree forests. When the storm clears, the heliski takes us up beyond the treeline to drop into the most desirable lines and pristine alpine bowls.  No matter what the weather conditions present, you’ll be able to enjoy full days of freeriding adventures.

After exceptional days out on the slopes, we’ll rest in warm cottages with a relaxing sauna. Each day we’ll enjoy delicious Georgian dishes accompanied by Georgian wines and brandy, celebrating our fantastic runs out on the slopes together.