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La Mongie (Tourmalet), France (1800m to 2500m)
La Mongie is not only the site of a famous mountain-stage of the yearly Tour de France bicycle tournament, it is the center of the Pyrenées largest ski area as well ( linked to Barèges ). Founded in 1948, it has a charming centre and reasonable prices.
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La Mongie Ski Facts
 | Intermediate Skiers | |
 | Beginners | |
 | Snowboarding | |
| Snow | |
| Apres-ski | |
| 5 | Black Runs (15km) | |
| 20 | Red Runs (31km) | |
| 21 | Blue Runs (31km) | |
| 23 | Green Runs (23km) | |
| 120km | Downhill Pistes | |
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| 33 | Ski Lifts | |
| 700m | Max Vertical | |
| 2500m | Highest Lift | |
| 1800m | Lowest Piste | |
| 1800m | Resort Altitude | |
La Mongie
The French ski resort of La Mongie is part of the Tourmalet Ski Area with access to 138 individual pistes, served by 43 ski lifts. In addition to the skiing in La Mongie itself (120km of pisted ski runs), the appropriate ski Lift Pass will allow you to ski or snowboard in the other Tourmalet ski resort of Barèges. La Mongie is directly linked by Ski Lift to the ski areas of Barèges.
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 :- La Mongie is able to augment natural snow, on 50km of ski runs, with 170 Snow Cannons.
Ski Lift Capacity :- The 33 Ski Lifts of La Mongie are able to uplift 18,000 skiers / snowboarders per hour.
There is an airport within two hours drive, so ski weekends, snowboard breaks and short ski holidays to La Mongie are perfectly feasible.
Skiing in La Mongie
La Mongie links with neighboring Barèges to make up one of the biggest skiing areas in the Pyrenees and just as the villages are in complete contrast, so is the skiing. La Mongie has steep, wide open treeless slopes while Barèges is very typically Pyreneen with its picturesque wooded trails.
The restaurant at the Tourmalet makes a good stopping off point with spectacular panoramic views over the Pyrenees. Some good steeper skiing on the La Mongie side where more the more advanced will find challenging reds at the Pain de Sucre and Petits Sapins just above the village. Good powder skiing on the north facing slopes.
On the Bareges side the most challenging slopes are to be found at Pic d'Ayre with red and black runs through Le Lienz forest. The Prade Berde is probably La Mongie's most challenging piste. The area has a good range of terrain with long motor way runs for intermediates and off-piste and powder for the more advanced.
From the top of the Tourmalet you can clearly see the Observatory which stands on the Pic du Midi, a lone summit at a height of 2877m/9440 ft. Built in 1878, construction of the Observatory took 4 years because work could only be carried out during summer months when the area was free of snow and ice. Initially a weather center, the Observatory has achieved world wide fame in astronomy since the Apollo landing preparation work was carried out there. Before the cable car was installed in 1952 the only way in and out was on foot and solitary scientists would often spend months there.
Snowboarding in La Mongie
La Mongie was the birthplace of snowboarding in the Pyrenees. Two brothers, the Arrans, who used to windsurf off the nearby Atlantic coast decided back in the 70's to try the same method on snow and so boarding arrived in La Mongie.
Major competitions are regularly staged here, among these the Quiksilver Cup, held annually in March. The competition involves the 2 disciplines of surfing both on snow and water with the windsurfing held in the gigantic surf off the Atlantic coast.
Mathieu Crépel
Award winner : Double snowboard champion at the Quik Cup, French Half Pipe Champion in 2004 and 2005, winner of the World Half Pipe Cup in 2005, 1st Professionnal World Snowboard Champion in 2006 (TTR), World Champion Big Air and Half Pipe 2007The Domaine du Tourmalet has an exceptional freeride domain with an infinite number of possibilities, and even more with the Pic du Midi. Knowing the domain by heart also enables me to know here i can go according to the conditions, so there's always something fun to do.
La Mongie Aprés Ski
There are several bars and restaurants in the resort.
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La Mongie in brief
La Mongie Ski Resort is:-
Ok for Expert Skiers.
Ok for Intermediate Skiers.
Good for Beginners.
Very good for Snowboarding.
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