A Flylow crew took a ski trip to Mestia, Georgia, to see what skiing in the Caucasus Mountains is like. Guided by Nick Waggoner (find him here), the crew drove around in Mitsubishi Delicas, toured to soft snow, slept in a farmhouse billed as a castle, and ate savory meat pies known as kubdari. Here are a few photographic highlights from their trip, including giant swings, snowcats, and the coolest off-roading vans.
#1. First, fly around the world and hope your ski bag makes it. Step 2: Everything arrived! Now you need to figure out how to jam it all into the van to get to your destination.
#2. That feeling you have when you've just spent over 24 hours getting to a place and then finally, you click into your skis on the other side of the world and it's all worth it.
#3. Hmm. Our guide said the après ski bar was somewhere around here?
#4. Who needs a roof box when you can just rope a dozen pairs of skis to the roof? Georgia was full of rowdy Mitsubishi Delica vans.
#5. When the sign says it all. It was a nice place indeed.
#6. Teeing up the day's adventure, guide Nick Waggoner spies his next line.
#7. In case anyone forgot an essential layer, there were plenty of places to shop for outerwear.
#8. Home base for a couple of nights was this farmhouse that Nick lovingly called a "castle."
#9. Good thing we went ski touring all day. Dinner is served!
#10. Then things got really cool. An industrial snowcat delivered us to a backcountry hut called the Cloudbase Hut. Learn more about the hut here.
#11. Sometimes, you've got to just be a kid again.
#12. You know it's a good trip when it involves views like this and a bag o' chips at the end of the day.