Beginners
There is a dedicated beginners’ area close to the resort centre where
beginners can gain confidence. Les Bergers area in particular offers
excellent wide, easy green runs. All these runs are close to the resort
and offer a variety of challenges for beginners.
Intermediates
With an excellent array of moderately difficult runs, Alpe d’Huez has a great deal to offer the intermediate skier. Signal, at 2115m, has a number of enjoyable sunny pistes providing interesting, exhilarating skiing. On the southern side of the village, a chair-lift takes you across the gorge at the foot of Signal de l’Homme and up to a height of 2176m, from where there are long, south-west and north-west facing runs down to Auris en Oisans and Alpe d’Huez.
Advanced
Alpe d’Huez provides a great many challenges for the expert skier. On the south-facing Glacier de Sarenne, there are many notorious blacks, including the infamous ‘Tunnel’ where the piste goes through a tunnel in the mountain and comes out onto a steep mogul slope. One of the longest black runs in the world also begins on the glacier and makes its way all the way back
to the village.
Snowboarding
This huge area is excellent for snowboarding with a wide choice of on and off-piste terrain. Most of the slopes follow the fall-line which means that flat and traverse sections are minimal. There’s also a terrain park and half-pipe near the main lift base, as well as in Auris.