skiing la plagne
La Plagne's local skiing covers 225km, the most for any one resort, and the 2000m veritcal is impressive too.
The slopes La Plagne offer terrain for all abilities and tastes, with wide cruisy runs to steep blacks on glacier, powder or treelines. There are good nursery slopes for beginners with free surface lifts in all the villages, and ideal slopes at Peisey Vallandry. The slopes around the Col des Frettes and Col du Grand Retard are fun for different ability levels. Experts should tackle the off-piste opportunities or the 2000m veritical black run down from the glacier to Montchavin. The slopes above the six altitude villages are all above the tree line, where as below them the skiing is through the trees to the villages of Plagne Montalbert, Montchavin and Les Coches. The runs over the back of the snow bowl lead to Champagny.
The Paradiski link to the Les Arcs ski domain across the valley, just about doubles the ski area, and makes it one of the world's largest. And if that isn't enough you can extend your ticker further to include the Espace Killy ( Tignes and Val d'Isers) and the Three Valleys ( Val Thorens, Les Menuires, St Martin de Belleville, La Tania, Meribel and Courchevel).
La Plagne's commitment to winter sports is evident by the number of ski schools there are, with some unique tuition options, eg a guided off-piste ‘Ski total' course, ‘Modern stages' course showing different sliding methods as well as improving technique and a carving-ski course, depending on the school.
Skiing La Plagne you'll enjoy 130 pistes and trails and that means approximately 225km of ski runs. La Plagne lifts number 104 with the capacity to uplift 121056 skiers up the mountain per hour. The longest ski run in the French ski resort of La Plagne is over 15km long. Ski La Plagne summer or winter as there is also glacier skiing in La Plagne.
La Plagne Ski Area
La Plagne ski area has 7% beginner ski runs or nursery slopes, 53% intermediate, 25% advanced ski slopes and 13% for expert skiers - the most difficult La Plagne piste is the 3.5km Le Rochu run, with a steepness/slope angle of ?%. You can ski La Plagne after dark as there is night skiing on ?km of illuminated piste.
La Plagne for skiing gets 4 stars out of 5 overall
snowboarding la plagne
La Plagne's and Paradiski snowboarding offerings keep getting better with ever more parks and a new boarder Cross. There are terrain parks at Belle Plagne, Montchavin and Champagny. Bellcote has a halfpipe. The 7-3 snowpark has an unprecedented combination of modules spread over a 900 meter-long freestyle run, very American in design! The Les Arcs Apocalypse Snowpark, above Arc 1600, is also enormous with green, red and black descents along a variety of modules. With the better high speed chair lifts to get to the parks and pistes, access is even easier. There is plenty of wide open cruising runs, but there are some flat spots, so boarders may have to do some walking. Get some guidance from one of the ski schools on where the best of the powder fields are.
If you snowboard La Plagne you'll want to know that, of the 104 ski lifts in total, 34 are surface lifts or "drag lifts" - this gives a good indication of how modern the lift system is and well set up La Plagne snowboarding is - especially for beginners learning to snowboard. La Plagne snowboard facilities include 1 terrain parks and 1 half pipe (longest half pipe length is 150 metres), 0 quarter pipe and 3 boardercross courses.
La Plagne for snowboarding gets 3 stars out of 5 overall