Les Deux Alpes resort review
“Decent all-year, all-style resort, with some great carving terrain and good off-piste, but the place can be hellishly busy at weekends and over holidays.”
Mountain stats
Top lift:3568m
Vertical drop:2298m
Bottom lift:1270m
Lift count :
2 x Cable-cars
4 x Gondolas
20 x Chairlifts
26 x Drag-lifts
1 Funicular, 1 Sloping Lift
125miles (200km) of pistes
Easy
Intermediate
Advanced
Total Pistes:75
Longest Piste:12 km
Les Deux Alpes ranks amongst France’s biggest and most friendly resorts. Not just friendly, but snowboard-friendly. The resort has plenty of testing and rider-friendly terrain, and an excellent terrain park. The pistes are big and wide, pretty featureless, but great for beginners and intermediates.
As a glacial resort, when other areas are suffering from a lack of the white stuff, Les Deux Alpes has no such problem although the lower slopes can get pretty icy. Once freeriders have exhausted the local area, and if you’ve got the guts, you can hike or snowcat and drop into neighbouring resort La Grave. 
A great time to visit this place is summer, as the glacier allows for some fine summer riding in T-shirts, plus there’s a huge array of jumps and rails, not to mention 2 half-pipes. A lot of camps are held here in June and July, with camp programmes mainly aimed at freestylers.
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