Together with Alpingaraget and Lumiversumi Elevenate host "Elevenate travels"

How is it that Alpingaraget sells ski trips together with Elevenate and a Finnish travel agency?

"My first season, 1990–91 in St. Anton, I got to know a Finnish skier named Pette Halme. After a few winters in St. Anton, we both moved—independently of each other—to Verbier. By then, Pette had already founded a travel agency that eventually became Finland’s largest, focused on specialty ski trips.

Toward the end of the ’90s, we had both decided to go through the mountain guide training (IFMGA), and we spent many ski and climbing trips together to get through the admission process. We ended up in the same class during the training, and over several intense years we shared the whole range of emotions and many fantastic moments in the mountains across Europe. After completing our certification in 2002, we guided together as often as we could for several years. Naturally because we enjoy each other’s company, but just as much because we are both skiers at heart and share the same vision of what good skiing is.

While Pette (the first Finnish IFMGA mountain guide) continued to build his travel business and search for new secret powder stashes all over the world, I moved back home to Sweden and Åre with my family in 2010. My wife and I had just founded Elevenate. Since the early 2000s, I had been guiding annually at Alpingaraget’s “Freeride Week” in Verbier, and had gotten to know that group as passionate skiers. It was only natural that our first collection would be sold at Alpingaraget.

Now several years have passed, and Elevenate is opening its first shop-in-shop precisely at Garaget. So it also felt natural to offer trips together—trips for passionate skiers. And who better to organize the trips than

Pette."

// Founder and IFMGA Mountain Guide Jimmy Odén