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Key facts
| Resort | 1250 m |
|---|---|
| Slopes | 1250-3250 m |
| Lifts | 104 |
| Pistes | 225 km |
| Green | 7 % |
| Blue | 60 % |
| Red | 22 % |
| Black | 11 % |
| Snowmaking | 359 guns |
| Price index | 100 |
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Package operators
Chill Chalet, Lagrange, Peak Retreats, Ski Hiver, Ski Soleil, Snowchateaux
MontchavinFrance
The upside
- Extensive intermediate slopes, plus plentiful, excellent off-piste terrain
- Fast cable car link with Les Arcs
- Good nursery slopes
- High and fairly snow-sure, and with some wonderful views
- Attractive, traditional-style village
- Wooded runs are useful in poor weather
The downside
- Pistes in the main bowl don’t offer much challenge or much vertical
- Pistes get very crowded in places
- Still lots of slow old chair-lifts
- Poor snow can be a problem
- Hardly any green runs and some blues are tricky
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Hi! Sorry but I’m very biased! I’ve been…
paulgammage 17 Jul 2011
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Summary
Montchavin is an attractively transformed farming hamlet of chalets and orchards, connected to the vast Paradiski domain. The cable car link with Les Arcs starts from here, 300m above the village and reached by a fast chair. Getting to La Plagne involves a series of lifts and the way home involves some tricky blue runs. But Montchavin’s local slopes offer pretty, sheltered runs, well endowed with snowmaking. Although quiet, the village does not lack atmosphere and is a popular family choice.
News – this season 2011/12
Montchavin has a new leisure facility, including year-round pools and a spa.
News – last season
A new black piste linked Col de la Chiaupe, at the bottom of the glacier area, to Les Bauches. The Les Coches-Montchavin blue run was made easier.
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