Ski touring maps for the Alps and the Nordics

Know your
mountain.

8,000+ ski tours on a 3D map that knows today's avalanche bulletin, snow and weather. See which slopes fit today, how long the climb takes and where the good snow is, before you leave the car.

3 days free, then 249 kr a year. Cancel any time.

RIPA on desktop: the Mont Blanc massif in 3D with the avalanche bulletin painted on the slopes it warns about, danger 3 above 2,000 m and 2 below

The RIPA map on the phone as it opens: the Mont Blanc massif in 3D above Chamonix, with peaks, huts and lifts

8,000+ski tours

10 mfresh satellite images

Dailyavalanche bulletins

1map for the whole day

Made for ski touring

From the sofa to the summit.

Find a tour, check today's conditions, plan your line and record the day. One app, one map.

The Tours tab around Chamonix with Risk colour on: each tour marked fits, careful or avoid for today's bulletin

Find your tour

8,000 tours. The right one for today.

Search a valley and every tour around it shows up, from Camptocamp, OpenStreetMap and the Swiss Alpine Club. Filter for a short tour or a big day, keep it under 30° when the danger is up, or turn on Risk colour to see which tours fit today's bulletin.

Difficulty in piste colours
Today's danger on the tour's steepest slope
Honest times, up and down
Save the tours you want to do

Avalanche bulletin for Mont-Blanc: danger 3 Considerable above 2,000 m, 2 below, with persistent weak layers, wind slab and gliding snow

Know today's conditions

Today's avalanche bulletin. One look.

Open a place and you get the official bulletin: the danger by elevation, the avalanche problems and which aspects they are on. The same bulletin colours the slopes on the map, so you see exactly where it applies.

Official avalanche bulletins
Problems by aspect and elevation
Past bulletins for any day this season

Steepness layer in 3D over the Argentière basin and the Aiguille Verte: 30° slopes yellow, 35° orange, 40° and steeper red

Read the terrain

See every slope before you're on it.

Colour the map by steepness or aspect, tilt it into 3D and look straight at the face you plan to climb.

Steepness from 25° to 45°+
Aspect in eight colours
Sun and shade through the day

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Plan your line

Tap the points. Get a line to check.

Draw your route, or let Auto line find a way between your points that keeps off today's steep slopes and follows ski touring tracks. The line turns yellow where it gets steep and red where today's bulletin says avoid, and the profile shows every metre of it.

Green, yellow and red for today
Climb, descent and time, as drawn
Save it and follow it on your phone

Sentinel-2 snow image of the Chamonix valley: snow on the slopes, bare valley floor and forest

Snow from space

Where the snow is, this week.

Turn on Snow image and you get the latest clear 10 m Sentinel-2 pass: where the snow lies and where it has melted out. Switch to Satellite for sharp summer detail of rocks, paths and huts.

Dated passes from the last 60 days
Cloud cover shown for every pass
Summer detail, one tap away

Recording a ski tour above Le Tour: the track drawn on the map with time, distance and climb

Ski log with the season's ski days and tours, totals for climb and descent

Record the day

One tap to start. Every run in your ski log.

Choose Ski day or Ski tour and press Start. Your track, climb, descent and time go straight into your ski log.

Ski day and ski tour
Follow a planned route as you go
Season totals in your ski log

Only in RIPA

Layers you won't find anywhere else.

Today's bulletin, snow and weather, painted on the slopes themselves. Turn one on and the map shows exactly where it applies.

Avalanche on terrain layer above Chamonix: slopes coloured by the bulletin's danger, 3 above 2,000 m and 2 below — **Avalanche on terrain**The bulletin's danger level on the slopes it warns about, by elevation and aspect.

Today's problem layer around Chamonix: persistent weak layers, wind slab and gliding snow on the slopes they apply to — **Today's problem**Persistent weak layer, wind slab, gliding snow: each problem on the slopes it applies to.

Wind slabs layer above Chamonix: lee slopes coloured where wind has packed the new snow into slabs — **Wind slabs**Lee slopes where the last days' wind has had new snow to move.

Powder layer around Chamonix: the slopes where the new snow is most likely still dry coloured blue — **Powder**Where the last snowfall is most likely still dry, by aspect and above the snow line.

New snow layer around Chamonix: snow expected in the next 24, 48 and 72 hours by elevation — **New snow**How much snow is coming in the next one to three days, and from which elevation it falls as snow.

Snow line layer over the Mont Blanc massif: a white line where precipitation turns from rain to snow — **Snow line**Where rain turns to snow, in three-hour steps for the next three days.

Reach layer from Argentière: how far you can skin in one to four hours, grey where it crosses slopes today's bulletin warns about — **Reach**How far you can skin in one to four hours from your start, around slopes today's bulletin warns about.

From the lift layer from Charlanon: the runs you can ski down to the valley, coloured by today's danger — **From the lift**Tap a lift top and see where you can ski from it, and where each run ends.

A guide from the official bulletin and the weather, not a hazard map.

Weather made for skiing

The forecast for every altitude.

Summit, mid-mountain and valley side by side, hour by hour and for the whole week. Colours show cold and warm, calm and storm, snow and rain at a glance; hover any square for the details.

Chamonix weather on desktop: seven-day heatmaps for wind and precipitation at summit, mid and valley, with the details for one hour of snow at the summit

Powder Finder

Know where the powder comes.

One map of the whole Alps with the snow on the way, for the next day or the next five. The places with most new snow are listed first; click one to go there.

Powder Finder over the Alps: up to 56 cm forecast in five days near Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, 45 cm near Zermatt and 37 cm near Chamonix

Avalanche, tour and Powder screenshots from Chamonix on 9 February 2026 with that day's bulletin, Wind slabs from 18 February and the snow image from 9 March. Weather, Powder Finder, new snow and snow line from the week of 20 October 2026. The recording and ski log show example data.

Pricing

Simple pricing. Everything included.

Every plan has every feature. Try it free first.

Free trial

3 days

Try the full app before you pay.

Best value

Year

249 kr/ year

The whole season and the summer planning too.

Week pass

79 kr/ 7 days

For one trip. Does not renew.

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Know your
mountain.