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Arête at Les Saisies

Easy · 1687 m long with 321 m of vertical, averaging 11° and 20° at its steepest, facing N.

20°steepest 50 m
11°average pitch
1687 mlength
321 mvertical
2048 mtop elevation
Nfaces

Snow and sun

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

How to get to Arête

Lifts that reach the top: Plan des Fours (skiing novice terrain to get there); Douce (skiing novice terrain to get there).

From the base area (about 52 minutes, easy skiing needed):

  1. Ride Seigneurs
  2. Ski unnamed easy trail (easy)
  3. Ski Renard (easy)
  4. Ski Jonction Mont Rond (easy)
  5. Ski unnamed easy trail (easy)
  6. Ski unnamed novice trail (novice)
  7. Ride Mont Rond
  8. Ski Thuile (easy)
  9. Ski unnamed easy trail (easy)
  10. Ski Gueux (easy)
  11. Ride Gueux
  12. Ski unnamed easy trail (easy)
  13. Ski Plan Dessert (easy)
  14. Ski unnamed easy trail (easy)
  15. Ski Vores (easy)
  16. Ride Vorès
  17. Ski Arête (easy)
  18. Ride Plan des Fours
  19. Ski Arête (easy)

Where it ends

Joins Cascades Bas, Cascades haut, unnamed intermediate trail. Nearest lifts from the bottom: Plan des Fours (1 min), Plan Dessert 1 (3 min), Plan Dessert 2 (3 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.