Variante Leissé at Pila
Intermediate · 340 m long with 68 m of vertical, averaging 11° and 22° at its steepest, facing NE.
22°steepest 50 m
11°average pitch
340 mlength
68 mvertical
2097 mtop elevation
NEfaces
Snow and sun
Variante Leissé is poleward-facing: least winter sun, holds cold powder longest, can stay firm or icy.
Grooming: classic.
How to get to Variante Leissé
Lifts that reach the top: Grimod (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Gorraz - Couis (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Gorraz - Grand Grimod (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Leissé (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); La Nouva (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Couis 2 (skiing intermediate terrain to get there).
From the base area (about 39 minutes, intermediate skiing needed):
- Ride Aosta / Aoste - Les Fleurs
- Ride Les Fleurs - Plan Praz
- Ride Plan Praz - Pila
- Hike unnamed easy connector (easy)
- Ride Pila-Gorraz
- Ride Gorraz - Couis
- Ski Raccordo Couis 1 (intermediate)
- Ski Du Lac (Luciano Poli) (intermediate)
- Ski Variante Leissé (intermediate)
Where it ends
Joins Leissé. Nearest lifts from the bottom: La Nouva (2 min), Leissé (3 min), Gorraz - Couis (3 min).
See Variante Leissé on the 3D mapAll runs at PilaMeasured 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.