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Rochette at Arc 1600

Advanced · 4176 m long with 384 m of vertical, averaging 11° and 30° at its steepest, facing N.

30°steepest 50 m
11°average pitch
4176 mlength
384 mvertical
2496 mtop elevation
Nfaces

Snow and sun

Rochette is poleward-facing: least winter sun, holds cold powder longest, can stay firm or icy.

Grooming: classic.

How to get to Rochette

Lifts that reach the top: Funiplagne Grande Rochette (skiing novice terrain to get there); Colorado (skiing easy terrain to get there); Verdons Sud (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Lovatière (skiing intermediate terrain to get there).

From the base area (about 33 minutes, advanced skiing needed):

  1. Ride Champagny
  2. Ski unnamed easy trail (easy)
  3. Ski Bouquetin (easy)
  4. Ski Liaison Verdons (easy)
  5. Ride Verdons Sud
  6. Ski unnamed connector
  7. Ski Verdons (easy)
  8. Ski Marie Chantal (easy)
  9. Ski unnamed easy trail (easy)
  10. Ski Puy du Fou (easy)
  11. Ski Mont Saint-Sauveur (easy)
  12. Ski unnamed connector
  13. Ride Funiplagne Grande Rochette
  14. Ski unnamed easy trail (easy)
  15. Ski Mira (easy)
  16. Ski Rochette (advanced)

Where it ends

Joins Carina, unnamed intermediate trail, unnamed easy trail, Mira, Capella, Vega. Nearest lifts from the bottom: Funiplagne Grande Rochette (2 min), Le France (3 min), Colorado (3 min).

See Rochette on the 3D mapAll runs at Arc 1600
Measured from OpenStreetMap geometry and elevation via OpenSkiMap (ODbL). Times are rough. Grades, grooming and openings change day to day — check the resort's own reports.