Ski Puy Saint Vincent - Ski or Snowboard in Puy Saint Vincent

Ski Puy Saint Vincent - Ski Resort and Snow Summary

Puy Saint Vincent (Grande Galaxie), Hautes-Alpes, 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 Ski Facts

Puy Saint Vincent in brief Puy Saint Vincent Ski Resort is:- Fantastic for Intermediate Skiers. Good for Beginners. Fantastic for Snowboarding.

for Intermediate Skiers for Beginners    2 Black Runs    12 Red Runs    14 Blue Runs    6 Green Runs 60km Downhill Pistes 60km Cross Country Trails 16 Ski Lifts 1350m Max Vertical 2750m Highest Lift 1400m Lowest Piste 1400m Resort Altitude Full Page Map of Puy Saint Vincent

The French ski resort of Puy Saint Vincent (in Hautes-Alpes) is part of the Grande Galaxie Ski Area with access to 256 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 7 Snow Cannons.

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

There is an airport 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 70km (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 holidys.

If you're staying for six days or more the Grand Galaxy 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 and Alpe d'Huez. 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.

Snowboarding in Puy Saint Vincent

The 'Rad air' snowpark is floodlit for night use and includes a half pipe. 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 Après 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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