47°08′N 10°13′E//:1 254 – 2 806 M//:UP. THEN DOWN.
01 //: THE VALLEY
One valley.
Three faces.
- VILLAGE1 344M
- NORTH · THE WALL4 LIFTS8 RUNS
- SOUTH · SUNSIDE3 LIFTS5 RUNS
- EAST · EASTSIDE2 LIFTS3 RUNS
02 //: LIFTS
Nine lifts.
One long one.
03 //: RUNS
Sixteen runs.
39.5 km.
04 //: THE MAP
Every line
is on the ground.
- TERRAIN10 × 10 KM6.5 M / SAMPLE
- PISTESROUTEDNOT DRAWN
- MAPORBIT · SUN · CONTOURSCLICK A RUN
The mountain in numbers
- Summit
- 2 806m
- Village
- 1 344m
- Lift-served vertical
- 1 257m
- Pistes
- 44km
- Lifts
- 9
- Longest run
- 5.5km
Three sectors
Every face of the valley skis differently.
North · The Shoulder · 2 642 m
The wall
The classic. Kalta Express to the plateau, then the cable car up the cliff band. Two blacks off the Shoulder, a long blue and red home, and the west chair to Little Kalta for the gentle stuff.
4 lifts · 8 runs · north-facing, holds snow to April
South · Sun Peak · 2 583 m
Sunside
The long gondola crosses the valley and climbs the sunny side. Powder Line is 5.5 km of red that starts in the alpine and ends in the trees. Skyline off Sun Peak is the steepest thing we groom.
3 lifts · 5 runs · afternoon light, spring corn
East · Saddle · 2 456 m
Eastside
The quiet one. A gondola from the lower valley to the Saddle, two big black bowls back down, and River Run, the only green on the mountain, 2.4 km along the water back to the village.
2 lifts · 3 runs · 1 063 m of vertical in one go
The honest bit
It's steep.
That's the point.
Most resorts paint their map. Ours is routed: every run was traced across the real terrain by an algorithm that refuses cliffs and pays for every metre steeper than the grade it was given. A green was asked for on the north side. The hill said no. So the north side has no green, and we print the numbers instead of the adjectives.
Passes
One pass. Every lift.
Three days
€198/ adult
- Any three days in the season
- Free storage locker at the base
- One free lesson for the under-10s
Season
€1 190/ adult
- 6 December to 19 April
- First chair on powder days, 08:00
- Your name on the card
Prices invented for the exercise, like everything else here that is not the ground.
Getting here
By rail, mostly.
The valley station is a seven-minute walk from the Kalta Express. Two hours and forty minutes from the airport, one change. If you drive, the road is cleared by 06:00 and the car park is at the far end of the village, which is the point.
The season
6 December to 19 April.
The north side faces the right way and keeps its snow; the last weeks are usually skied on Sunside in the afternoon with a beer at the plateau hut. Lifts run 08:30 to 16:15, an hour later in March.