Les Deux Alpes has opened for the season, one of the first French resorts to do so, and is reporting great conditions for early December with 50cm of snow at village level and the snow nearly 2 metres deep up high. The snow and early opening is thanks to 70% of the ski area being above 2,100m and climbing as high as the glacier-slopes at 3,600m.
Winter 23-24 started with the FIS Snowboard Cross World Cup launching the World Cup season with the world's best athletes competing on the resort's Snowboard cross course, located between 3,400m and 3,200m.
Then this coming weekend the famous Rise music festival is back for its 9th edition. Run by British organisers (Ibiza Rocks, Wasteland Ski and Rough Hill), the festival combines a week of snowsports and mountain activities with 100% British gigs throughout the resort (Les 2 Alpes main square, Palais des sports, slopeside bars, resort bars). It will be on from this Saturday 9th to 16th December. The festival is unusual coming so early in the season, most of the others in the Alps take place in the spring.
Early season Les 2 Alpes offers a discounted lift pass (until 22 December) A 6-day adult pass costs €252 instead of €296, and a 6-day child pass is at €201.50 instead of €237.