Alpe di Mera - Family Fun - 30km of pisted runs &
Alagna Valsesia - Beginners, Intermediate, Advanced & Heli-skiing - 180 km of pisted runs
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Alagna Valsesia - 180 km of pisted runs
Start in Alagna and ski the whole day without sking the same run twice!
Follow the snow through the vast Monterosa ski area - now one of the world's largest thanks to recent investment in new lifts. you can now ski or board without needing to stop for 180km between the resorts of Alagna and Gressoney and then Gressoney onto Champoluc, across three valleys. The skiing extends almost up to 3000 metres and there are spectacular views across Aosta Valley and Piemonte. The area was improved for the 2004/5 season when the spectacular Funifor Cable Car finally completed the long planned link in the circuit between the Valsesia and Gressoney La Trinite resorts. The most internationally famous resort on the circuit, Alagna, is known for its old world charm and having been "preserved from cement" with its Walser buildings dominant.
It was founded in the 12th century and is built around the local parish church, where the village sits beneath Europe's second highest peak. The other extreme of the pass, Champoluc, at 1570m is the main resort in the Val d'Ayas. Surrounded by pine woods, it offers spectacular views of the Monte Rosa glaciers and the rocky buttresses of Mont Sarezza and the Testa Grigia.
One of the world's greatest lift-served verticals is reached by cable car from Alagna, as is the Monte Rosa ski area by marked off-piste descents.
Helisking available to strong intermediate and advanced skiers, offering a haven of access to more off-piste terrain. 25 possible landings, numerous decents, 3,000 metres of elevation in an ever-changing terrain - steep canals, glacier paths, wide valleys and infinite spaces. The mountain guides expert knowledge discovers the unknown secret snow and ensure an exhilarating experience for those powder hounds.
Groomed Pistes
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 Passo Salati (2971m - 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), from there its possible to ascend to the Punta Indren Glacier and the full 2000m+ vertical. The Olen and Bors Valleys offer fairly advanced intermediate skiing and spectacular off piste opportunities. For beginners and early intermediates there's a special separate area of Wold - only 500m away.
Alpe di Mera -30km of pisted runs
Alpe di Mera is an easy and family fun ski resort. With its 30 km of groomed ski slopes this resort in the heart of Valsesia offers skiers and visitors a new point of view on Monte Rosa, a splendid ski park to all enthusiasts and is a real paradise for competitive spirits, easy to reach from Scopello.
The slopes are served by four chair lifts, 2 travelators and a button lift providing easy access to the whole bowl area. It overlooks the entire valley from above allowing its visitors to admire the Monte Rosa massif in all its majesty. The panorama has no equal in Valsesia! With descents developing from the 1.800 meters of the Cima Camparient, they are designed on soft backbones that make the station suitable for everyone, from beginners to the most demanding, especially for families.
The possibilities of off-piste rides in fresh snow are fun and safe due in large part to the bowl like nature of the terrain.
For the little ones or for those taking their first steps on the snow, perhaps accompanied by an instructor, the ideal beginners area is large, sunny and served by a treadmill, but also the ski lift to move to the next level on the first blue slope.
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