Les Houches - Saint-Gervais

About the area

Les Houches – Saint-Gervais is a mid-sized area of about 36 km, and the split tells you who it is for: 49% of the pistes are green or blue (18 km), with 13 short easy runs sitting next to a lift base, so beginners can repeat the same slope without long traverses. Families get a magic carpet for first turns and two gondola/cable-car lifts, which means no chairlift loading with small children. Experts have less to work with: only 5 km is black or freeride terrain (13%), and the longest vertical on a single run is 388 m.

The area runs from 995 m to 1,886 m, so it is not high-altitude skiing and lower slopes depend on the weather. Fifteen lifts serve it: 8 chairlifts, 3 platters, one gondola, one cable car, one rope tow and one magic carpet. The longest run measures 2,445 m.