Skiing Portes du Soleil

portes du soleil among largest ski areas in world , takes time hold of main pistemap. resorts have detailed maps of respective parts of system. there main circuit through of swiss , of french resorts (chatel-morgins-champoussin-les crosets/champery-avoriaz-chatel)that can skied in both clockwise , counterclockwise directions. average skier or boarder spend of day doing circuit. apart short walk in morgins, circuit can skied without removing 1 s skis or board. there places on circuit (especially in morgins) 1 might experience sparse snow or have go down chairlift late in season. should noted skiing ciruit counterclockwise means having either ski famous la chavanette known le mur or suffer humiliation of taking chairlift down. if re not wall, there alternative route les crosets via les lindarets , point de mossette. doing circuit means 1 have leave out numerous tempting , testing options , bypass 2 major areas not on main circuit. 1 torgon/abondance area connected lift chatel , other morzine/les gets area linked lift avoriaz. both large , testing areas in - morzine/les gets area in having around 150 km of marked runs.