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Fontaines at Les Houches (Chamonix)

Intermediate · 1374 m long with 339 m of vertical, averaging 14° and 24° at its steepest, facing W.

24°steepest 50 m
14°average pitch
1374 mlength
339 mvertical
1840 mtop elevation
Wfaces

Snow and sun

Fontaines is west-facing: afternoon sun, softens late and can crust as it refreezes.

How to get to Fontaines

Lifts that reach the top: Kandahar (skiing easy terrain to get there); Crozat (skiing easy terrain to get there); Voza-Prarion (skiing easy terrain to get there).

From the base area (about 11 minutes, intermediate skiing needed):

  1. Ride Prarion
  2. Ski Les Aillouds Supérieur Col de Voza, Table d'Orientation (easy)
  3. Ski Les Aillouds Supérieur Col de Voza (easy)
  4. Ski unnamed novice trail (novice)
  5. Ski Aillouds (easy)
  6. Ride Voza-Prarion
  7. Ski Abbaye, Col de Voza (easy)
  8. Ski Abbaye (easy)
  9. Ski Fontaines (intermediate)

Where it ends

Joins Abbaye. Nearest lifts from the bottom: Crozat (1 min).

See Fontaines on the 3D mapAll runs at Les Houches (Chamonix)
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.