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Petit Lac at Courchevel

Easy · 505 m long with 49 m of vertical, averaging 6° and 7° at its steepest, facing NE.

steepest 50 m
average pitch
505 mlength
49 mvertical
2040 mtop elevation
NEfaces

Snow and sun

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

How to get to Petit Lac

Lifts that reach the top: Verdons (skiing novice terrain to get there); Rocher de l'Ombre (skiing novice terrain to get there); Sources (skiing novice terrain to get there); Pralong (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Biollay (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Saulire (skiing intermediate terrain to get there).

From the base area (about 31 minutes, easy skiing needed):

  1. Ride Praz
  2. Ski unnamed novice trail (novice)
  3. Ski Plantrey (novice)
  4. Ski unnamed novice trail (novice)
  5. Ride Epicea
  6. Ski unnamed novice trail (novice)
  7. Ski Bellecôte (novice)
  8. Ride Verdons
  9. Ski Renards (novice)
  10. Ski Petit Lac (easy)

Where it ends

Joins unnamed easy trail, Biollay. Nearest lifts from the bottom: Biollay (2 min), unnamed magic carpet (3 min), unnamed magic carpet (3 min).

See Petit Lac on the 3D mapAll runs at Courchevel
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.