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Variante Hôtel at Les Houches (Chamonix)

Intermediate · 507 m long with 115 m of vertical, averaging 13° and 20° at its steepest, facing NE.

20°steepest 50 m
13°average pitch
507 mlength
115 mvertical
1883 mtop elevation
NEfaces

Snow and sun

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

How to get to Variante Hôtel

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

From the base area (about 10 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 Friaz (easy)
  10. Ski Variante Hôtel (intermediate)

Where it ends

Joins Stade FIS. Nearest lifts from the bottom: Kandahar (2 min), Maison Neuve (6 min), Prarion (8 min).

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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.