The Morzine Ski Area

With 650km of pistes, Morzine-Avoriaz and the Portes du Soleil offers extensive world-class skiing at every level.

The Slopes

From the beginner slopes of Pleney to the famous Swiss Wall run from Avoriaz into Champery, there is something for everyone in the Portes du Soleil, click here for a link to the site. With 12 linked resorts, you never need to do the same run twice in a week! For the more adventurous, the interlinked nature of the resort also provides a wealth of off-piste possibilities. The Edge offers guiding to open these areas up to you.

Lifts

The main high-altitude areas of Avoriaz, Champery, Crossets and Chatel are all serviced mainly by high-speed chairlifts. With a lift capacity of 224,058 people per hour, queues are rarely a problem. During the busier periods of the season, the sheer scale of the resort means that there are always places you can go to avoid the crowds and ski school classes.

Snow

Avoriaz boasts a very good snow record, thanks to it's unique location. As it is at the edge of the alps next to lake Geneva, clouds are blown into the mountains and tend to precipitiate snow at that point, right where the Portes du Soleil is. Snowfall is higher here than at many higher and better known resorts. See the statistics at The Ski Club of Great Britain. Also at the northern latitude of the alps, temperatures are correspondingly lower preserving the snow.