Ski in Puy Saint Vincent

Skiing in Puy Saint Vincent

Puy Saint Vincent (Grande Galaxie), France (1400m to 2750m)

Located in the largest park in France, the 92000 acre 'Les Ecrins', Puy Saint Vincent is a year round purpose-designed centre split in to two resorts at 1400 and 1600 metres. Very wide raging facilities, including a night-skiing piste.

Puy Saint Vincent

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Puy Saint Vincent Ski Facts

Puy Saint Vincent Ski Facts

		Intermediate Skiers
		Beginners
		Snowboarding
		Snow
		Apres-ski
	2	Black Runs
	12	Red Runs
	14	Blue Runs
	6	Green Runs
60km		Downhill Pistes
30km		Cross Country Trails
16		Ski Lifts
1350m		Max Vertical
2750m		Highest Lift
1400m		Lowest Piste
1400m		Resort Altitude

Puy Saint Vincent

The French ski resort of Puy Saint Vincent is part of the Grande Galaxie Ski Area with access to 264 individual pistes. In addition to the skiing in Puy Saint Vincent itself (60km of pisted ski runs), the appropriate ski Lift Pass will allow you to ski or snowboard in the other Grande Galaxie ski resorts of Briançon, La Grave, Les Deux Alpes and Serre Chevalier.

With pistes above 2500 metres, skiing and snowboarding is assured throughout the season.

Snowmaking :- Puy Saint Vincent is able to augment natural snow, on 15km of ski runs, with 64 Snow Cannons.

Ski Lift Capacity :- The 16 Ski Lifts of Puy Saint Vincent are able to uplift 13,150 skiers / snowboarders per hour.

There are two airports within two hours drive, so ski weekends, snowboard breaks and short ski holidays to Puy Saint Vincent are perfectly feasible.

Skiing in Puy Saint Vincent

Puy St Vincent has good range of skiing up to 2750m, giving a healthy 1350m vertical. This means long blues and reds back down to the resort. However there's a good range of terrain including some very black runs from the top of the lifts beneath La Pendine. There are about 75km (45 miles) of runs with enough variety to keep most people happy for a week.

Beginners have nursery slopes at 1400 and 1600 and snow cover is normally good despite the southerly latitude, thanks to northerly exposure and increasing snowmaking cover.

The wide raging facilities, including a night-skiing piste and a new slalom stadium opened for the 2005-6 season. Night skiing is available during school holidays.

If you're staying for six days or more the Galaxy Advantage ticket offers a day in other large ski areas nearby including Serre Chevalier, Pelvoux, Montgenevre and the Milky Way resorts in Italy, Les 2 Alpes l'Alpe d'Huez and la Grave. With the exception of Pelvoux, to which there are two buses a day, you will need to work out your own transportation to these resorts however, there is no official ski bus link.

Hands free skiing: the validity of your lift pass is checked automatically when you go through the gates ad turnstiles. Your fidelity card can be used for skiing and researching your ski pass in all resort using the same system.

Snowboarding in Puy Saint Vincent

There is one boarder cross at 2000m with jumps, banks and rails. Beginner boarders can also use the new high speed six seater chair which links 1400 up to 1600 to access gentle terrain on wide sunny meadows between the two bases. More advanced riders will head up the mountain to tackle the steep reds and blacks.

Puy Saint Vincent Aprés Ski

The majority of the bars and restaurants are in 1600m, although there are a handful - Les Arcades, La Pendine and Le Saint Roch at 1400m

In 1600 you have about a dozen choices. The livliest is usually Le Tire Bouchon which does Karaoke (and take out pizza). For late night dancing the Caliente disco is the place to be.

There are plenty of evening activities including snowmobiling, cinema and quad biking and the resort's entertainments team organise extra events every day. A Festival of Laughter is staged every January.

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Puy Saint Vincent in brief

Puy Saint Vincent Ski Resort is:-
Ok for Expert Skiers.
Good for Intermediate Skiers.
Good for Beginners.
Good for Snowboarding.

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Map of Puy Saint Vincent