New Six Seater chairlift Leads Courchevel Improvements

Courchevel is installing a new six seat chairlift Biollay for next winter.

The new Biollay chairlift will be, "more powerful, faster, more secure and comfortable," ...than its predecessor according to the famous 3 Valleys resort.

In fact all of the chairlifts in the Courchevel Valley will be more secure next winter, for children at least, as they will all be fitted with the innovative 'Magnestick' system which uses a special device won on a child's ski jacket to magnetise them to the chair as the lifts ascends, releasing them at the unload station at the top.

The system, used primarily by ski schools, was pioneered at the resort and has since been introduced at others in Europe and North America. It's designed to avoid the occasional accidents where children slip under the restraining bar on the lift. All 18 of Courchevel's chairlifts will be fitted with the safety devices for the first time next winter.

Other improvements announced include 58 new snow guns with the introduction of snowmaking on the slopes of Les Creux and of Cospillot.

That's all good news.
Biolley has been in need of an update for ages - one of the few potential bottlenecks in the Courchevel Valley.
Cospilot has always been hit or miss snow wise and I have wondered for years why it doesn't have snow making as it is an important route home.
Wonder what the thinking behind Les Creux is though?
I can't remember going early or late season and there being a lack of snow problem. It is quite high.

Not really new, we've had these for years for getting ready mixed concrete from mixer to site, does the bottom open to drop the skiers off :)