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The French ski resort of Avoriaz is part of the Portes du Soleil Ski Area with access to 650 individual pistes, served by 209 ski lifts.

Avoriaz Pro’s

• There’s a great selection of fun parks and man made runs for beginners to expert.
• Ski straight from your doorstep
• Snow until late season

Avoriaz Con’s

• Can get very bust during the holiday periods
• Can be a drag getting bags from the car park to the apartments
• Crazy architecture people either love or hate

Skiing In Avoriaz

Affordable ski in/out resort at the heart of the Portes du Soleil, a contestant for the worlds biggest linked lift system.

In addition to the skiing in Avoriaz itself (650 kmkm of pisted ski runs), the appropriate ski Lift Pass will allow you to ski or snowboard in the other Portes du Soleil ski resorts of Abondance, Châtel, La Chapelle d'Abondance, La Grande Terche, Les Gets, Montriond, Morzine, Saint Jean d'Aulps, Champoussin, Champéry, Les Crosets, Morgins and Torgon.The ski resort itself is above 1500m, so skiing or boarding back to the resort is usually possible. With skiing above 2000 metres, snow cover is generally reliable.Snowmaking :- Avoriaz is able to augment natural snow through the use of 68 Snow Cannons.Ski Lift Capacity :- The 35 Ski Lifts of Avoriaz are able to uplift 47,000 skiers / snowboarders per hour. There are two airports within two hours drive, so ski weekends, snowboard breaks and short ski holidays to Avoriaz are perfectly feasible.

The Portes du Soleil covers an enormous area in the corners of both France and Switzerland. Avoriaz is perhaps the jewel in the crown of the area, both staggering in its concept and given the right light beautiful to behold. Certainly, those skiing back to town as the sun sets over the distant peaks will get a view hat few other resorts can boast.

Beginners

Open your front door and ski towards the eight man Tour chair that goes back up through the town. From there, head down the Proclou run until you hit the area known as Super-Morzine perhaps the best beginner’s area in France. Ride around the whole area and back to Avoriaz and you’ve done a decent lap covering gentle terrain that includes skiing through a tunnel.

Intermediate

From Avoriaz head to the top of chavanette where you’ll encounter ‘The Wall’, a ludicrously steep mogul run. Don’t worry, you can take the chair down. At the bottom keep heading for Crosets; when you get there fin the funpark. You don’t have to take on the jumps just yet, but definitely try out the fantastic gulley run.

Expert

A near-complete lap of the PDS is within the realms of possibility if you start early enough and have a group consisting of good skiers. First head to Switzerland via the Chavanette then lap all the resorts, Les Crosets, Champoussin, Val d’llex and Morgins. Return via Champoussn to the Montriand valley, then head through Morzine to Les Gets. If you do it this way round, getting stuck isn’t a problem. The Prodians cable car runs from Morzine to Avoriaz until late at night, so even if you don’t complete the lap you’ll be able to make it home.

Powder

If there is powder, the piste from Avoriaz to Les Prodains offers some incredible cat tracks to jump from or shadow on the way down. Otherwise, the area above the Avoriaz park has plenty of moonscape possibilities.

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