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Tignes Skiing Area
Tignes is approximately equivalent in size to Val d’Isere. During the winter months, it offers 47 ski lifts which include a funicular railway, a cable car, 24 chairlifts and 19 drag lifts, enabling you to ski round the 150 kilometres of pisted terrain. Tignes has a variety of skiing for all levels and can be split into four areas, La Grande Motte Massif, Palet/L’Aiguille Percée, Toviere and Les Brévières. The Grande Motte offers a good choice of wide open blues, but it can often be deceptively cold on the glacier, and not always conducive to learning. There are a number of cruisey intermediate runs and although there’s not a huge selection of blacks, you can try the 'Sache', a long black run from the top of the L’Aiguille Percée to Tignes Les Brévières - it provides some fierce moguls and challenging skiing. There is also a board park at Val Claret giving riders the chance to try their hand at some freestyle jumping, rails and ‘big air’! For the more adventurous, Tignes has access to some of the worlds best off-piste in the French Alps.
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| La Grande Motte Ski Area |
The Grande Motte is the highest massif in the Espace Killy, a mass of rock, ice and permanent snow cover. It is the only part of the Espace Killy ski area which is open in every season. It can be accessed by either the Funicular railway (which runs in all weathers, taking approximately 3000 skiers an hour), or by taking the Lanches and Vanoise chairlifts, then finally the Grande Motte Cable car. The scenery is absolutely stunning at the top of the Grande Motte and you should stop long enough to look across the mountains at the Vanoise National Park, the Grande Casse (3852m), Mont Blanc (4807m) and the Grande Sassiere (3747m).
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last updated 13-Feb-2008 |
| The Palet / L'Aiguille Ski Area |
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The Pallet massif is accessible from Val Claret by the 'Tichot chairlift'. New to this area in 2005 is Le S.P.O.T (Sortir des Pistes, ca s’apprend a Tignes). S.P.O.T is an area which has been dedicated to improve skiers and boarders understanding and mountain awareness. |
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last updated 13-Feb-2008 |
| Toviere Ski Area |
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The Toviere sector provides links with the skiing in Val d’Isere, and is accessible by taking the 'Aeroski' bubble from Tignes-Le-Lac or the 'Tufs' and 'Bollin' chairlifts from Val Claret. |
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last updated 13-Feb-2008 |
| Les Brevieres / L'Aiguille Percee Ski Area |
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The lowest part of the Tignes ski area, Les Brévières is a nice little sun trap from early on in the morning, making it the perfect resting point for spot of lunch on a sunny day. The highest point in this massif is the L’Aiguille Percée (2748m) which offers some visually dramatic and geological oddities in the curious rock formations, and is also the location of the famous "eye of the needle". |
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last updated 13-Feb-2008 |
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