Ski in Gressoney la Trinité

Skiing in Gressoney la Trinité

Gressoney la Trinité - Ski Resort in Monterosa, Italian Alps - 50km of Piste (1220m to 2860m)

A compact and key resort in the Italian ' Three Valleys' or Monterosa ski area, with a great deal to attract intermediate skiers and off-piste routes over to Alagna (or heli-skiing) for the more advanced.

Gressoney la Trinité

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Gressoney la Trinité Ski Facts

Gressoney la Trinité Ski Facts

		Expert Skiers
		Intermediate Skiers
		Beginners
		Snowboarding
		Snow
		Apres-Ski
	3	Black Pistes (8km)
	13	Red Pistes (50km)
	2	Blue Pistes (5km)
	4	Green Pistes
50km		Downhill Pistes
30km		Cross Country Pistes
11		Ski Lifts
1640m		Max Vertical
2860m		Highest Lift
1640m		Resort Altitude
1220m		Lowest Piste

Gressoney la Trinité

The Italian ski resort of Gressoney la Trinité is part of the Monterosa ski area with access to 64 individual pistes. In addition to the skiing in Gressoney la Trinité itself (50km of pisted ski runs), the appropriate ski Lift Pass will allow you to ski or snowboard in the other Monterosa ski resorts of Antagnod, Brusson, Champoluc and Gressoney Saint Jean.

The ski resort itself is above 1500m, so skiing or boarding back to the resort is usually possible. With pistes above 2500 metres, skiing and snowboarding is assured throughout the season.

Snowmaking :- Gressoney la Trinité is able to augment natural snow, on 6km of ski runs, with 150 Snow Cannons.

Ski Lift Capacity :- The 11 Ski Lifts of Gressoney la Trinité are able to uplift 14,295 skiers / snowboarders per hour.

There are two Airports within two hours drive, so ski weekends, snowboard breaks and short ski holidays to Gressoney la Trinité are perfectly feasible.

Skiing in Gressoney la Trinité

Skiers in Alagna can take the modern cable car from the village centre straight up to Pianalunga (a rise of nearly 850 vertical metres) and from there decide whether to take the new cable car a further 850 metres higher to Col d'Olen (2881m - a world beating 1,700m vertical ascent from two lifts!) - which opens up the links to Gressoney and Champoluc; or whether to take the chairlift to Bocchetta elle Pisse (2396) and the slopes used for competitions.

From there its possible to ascend to the Punta Indren Glacier and the full 2000m+ vertical.

The Olen and Bors Valleys offer fairly difficult skiing and spectacular off piste opportunities.

For beginners and early intermediates there's a special separate area, Wold, some 500m north of the village. Although low altitude it has full snowmaking cover.

From Gressoney, the central valley, lifts stretch up on either side to reach trails back down to Champoluc on one side and Alagna on the other. Runs of all standards descend on either side and back down to the resort.

There are many on and off piste itineraries in the area including the most popular Mount Rose Grand Tour which begins at 8.30 with a rendezvous at the Monterosa Ski offices in Champoluc. There's a coach link to Frachey from where participants can ski to the Gressoney Valley via Colle della Bettaforca (2701m) continuing on to the Passo dei Salati (2967m) and then descending along the Valsesia face of the slopes. An ascent to Punta Indren (3260m) follows with an off piste descent towards Gressoney. The tour ends back in Champoluc at 4pm.

Heliskiing is another popular activity given the wide range of high peaks in the area - and the proximity to France where heliskiing is banned. There's a wide choice of descents available to suit almost all ability levels. You can also take a helicopter to the top of the Lys mountain pass for a descent along the Grenz glacier down to Zermatt. Two or three day variants of the tour, staying overnight in Cervinia or Zermatt, are available.

Away from the main Three Valleys area, there are small separate ski areas on the Pass, including an area of mostly red and blue slopes above Antagnod, famous for their sunshine record, and at Gressoney St Jean there are famous slopes down through the old Swiss pines of Weissmatten.

Telemarking is also popular in the area and there' a special club for Telemarkers. Cross country skiers have valley and altitude routes (at 2025m high Pianalunga for example) around the area. However summer skiing ended here several seasons ago when work began on the lift upgrades.

Monterosa is included on The Aosta Valley pass which covers 800km (500 miles) of terrain served by nearly 200 lifts in over a dozen ski areas, including Cervinia, linked to Zermatt and other famous resorts in the area such as Pila, La Thuile and Courmayeur (a 30 minute bus ride away) which is linked to Chamonix (you need a special International variant of the ticket - see below - at an additional cost), but it's just about physically possible to ski over if you set off on the early bus.

There's no ski bus so your own transport is most useful to make the most of the pass.

Snowboarding in Gressoney la Trinité

The free riding terrain in the Monte Rosa region is a dream for boarders. The opportunity to open up 2000 metres of vertical above Alagna with a couple of cable car rides up is a truly wonderful thing, and the wide open powder fields all the way down likewise.

There are plenty of off piste boarding and heli-boarding opportunities, but no terrain parks at the last report.

Gressoney la Trinité Aprés Ski

Gressoney does not offer much in the way of apres ski or night life, but it's a good choice if you want to ski hard all day then relax in the evening over a quiet beer or two. There is a modest selection of small bars however. The Petit in la Trinite is good, the 'negrone' cocktail is a house special. The bar in the Jolanda Sport serves a mean Bombardino. The bars take it in turn close for one night a week so don't expect to go to the same place every night.

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Gressoney la Trinité in brief

Gressoney la Trinité Ski Resort is:
Very good for Expert Skiers.
Very good for Intermediate Skiers.
Very good for Beginners.
Ok for Snowboarding.
Opened : December 1, 2012
Closed : April 28, 2013
Opening Subject To Snow Conditions.

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