24,710 Acres
84 Lifts
6 Cable Cars
10 Gondolas
41 Ski ropes
121 Marked trails
Virtually unlimited off trail skiing
6824 Foot vertical (Pic Blanc Gondola to L’enversin D’oz)
Longest single trail – 3.6 miles, 3320 vertical feet
Add a crystal clear blue sky, bright warming sun and French hospitality and you’ve got the makings for a great holiday weekend.
Wow! We’ve been wanting to do a ski trip in the Alps ever since we visited Innsbruk, Austria back in the 1990's. It’s hard to imagine that it took us over 10 years to finally make the return trip.
So when an old work colleague and friend of mine, Mederick invited us down to France to join him and his girlfriend Muriel for a weekend of skiing, Beth and I jumped on the opportunity. We flew into Lyon and rented a cheap little micro-car for the 2.5 hour drive up into the mountains. It was a pretty drive through the narrow alpine valley. But it turned truly spectacular when we turned off the main road and started up the twenty six switchbacks that climb from the valley floor to the mountainous slopes of Alpe D’Huez.
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