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The mountains

by rebibi

Dents du Midi and Dents Blanches are the well known mountain range surrounding Champ?ry. Best view you get after taking the cable car from Champ?ry to Planachaux. A 5 minute ride for CHF 15.-- (adult, return)

Much more than skiing

by rebibi

Portes du Soleil offers much more than only skiing. Cross country, walking on snowshoes, snowboaring, sledding, snowkiting and paragliding are some other sport activities you can do during winter time.
Hiking, climbing, walking are some more activities for the rest of the season.

Gateway to the Portes du Soleil

by Tripack

Le Pas de Chavanette or the mythic Swiss Wall


For sure you will get enough room to practice your favorite snow activities over the largest linked ski area in the world:

Les Portes du Soleil offer a vast playground around France and Switzerland thanks to:
- 288 slopes over 650 km
- 28 black (hard difficulty), 107 red (medium), 112 blue (easy) and 41 green (beginner) slopes
- 243 km cross-country skiing
- 385 km snowshoe trails
- 209 skilifts
- Freestyle : 7 snowparks, 3 half-pipes, 5 boarder X
- 366 acres of snowed surface

Just choose your destination among the charm and authenticity of 14 mountain resorts:
- 6 Swiss resorts: Champery, Champoussin, Les Crosets, Morgins, Torgon, Val-d'illiez
- 8 French resorts: Abondance, Avoriaz, Chatel, La Chapelle d'Abondance, Les Gets, Montriond, Morzine, Saint-Jean-d'Aulps.

Never stop skiing!!!

The other side of "Les Portes du Soleil"

by Pavlik_NL

"Champery, let's ski to Switserland"

"Les Portes du Soleil" is one of the largest skiing areas in the world, stretching out over the French-Swiss border. Our basecamp was in France: Les Gets and litteraly the other side of the enormous ski arena, so ... we did it and it was super. Especially our lunch in the Swiss valley near Champery at the feet of "La Mure", a very steep skiing sloop "The Wall". Okay, we didn;t ski down, but went up here by one of the many ski lifts.

"Best skiing area in France AND Switserland"

The urge to go skiing is something that I every winter again feel rising when Christmas is approaching. these years however, it's waiting until Ilja is old enough to start taking lessons. My first skiing years were from 1993 until 1998 of which the wintersport at "Les Portes du Soleil" (the gates of the sun) was the last. Hopefully, Ilja will inherit my "snow fever" so we can enjoy the fun together soon.

Champéry, the door to Portes du Soleil

by rebibi

"Portes du Soleil"

Champ?ry is one of the villages from where you reach the ski slopes from one of the biggest aki area in Europe, called Portes du Soleil. The village lies at an altitude of 1050 m. The cable car takes you in 5 minutes to Planachaux at 2000 m. During this short ride you have a magnificent, panoramic view of majestic Dents du Midi and the Dents Blanches. I took this pic from the internet.

"Dents du Midi"

the ski area contains:
650 km of slopes
14 resorts between Switzerland and France
208 lifts
1 ski pass