Longest run
3.8 km
Belle Place Bas
Balme - Vallorcine
France
Piste map
1 km
Lifts
Runs and lifts from OpenStreetMap as of 27 September 2026. Select a run or a lift to see its figures.
- Summit
- 2,252 m7,388 ft
- Base
- 1,260 m4,134 ft
- Vertical
- 992 m3,255 ft
- Named runs
- 31
- Length of named runs
- 31.8 km
- Lifts
- 14
Runs by difficulty
- Green 3 10% · 1.5 km
- Blue 15 48% · 13.5 km
- Red 12 39% · 15.8 km
- Black 1 3% · 1.0 km
Steepest run
33%
Variante Esserts
Steepest 100 m: 42%
Biggest drop
609 m
Belle Place Haut
The named runs add up to 31.8 km.
Every named run
| Profile | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aiguillette | 730 m | 181 m | 25% | 38% | |
| Alpages | 1.3 km | 275 m | 21% | 36% | |
| Arve | 1.5 km | 328 m | 22% | 35% | |
| Béchat | 1.4 km | 276 m | 20% | 38% | |
| Béchat Esserts | 975 m | 287 m | 30% | 66% | |
| Belle Place Bas | 3.8 km | 456 m | 12% | 39% | |
| Belle Place Haut | 2.1 km | 609 m | 29% | 47% | |
| Caisets | 1.5 km | 373 m | 25% | 44% | |
| Col | 910 m | 196 m | 22% | 37% | |
| Ecuries | 1.3 km | 331 m | 25% | 35% | |
| Esserts Haut | 1.2 km | 180 m | 15% | 33% | |
| Forêt Verte | 3.4 km | 385 m | 11% | 18% | |
| Grands Champs | 730 m | 118 m | 16% | 21% | |
| La Louve | 1.2 km | 140 m | 12% | 24% | |
| La Louve | 15 m | 3 m | |||
| La Moraine | 895 m | 116 m | 13% | 18% | |
| Le Col | 35 m | 5 m | |||
| Les Caisets | |||||
| Les Crys | 775 m | 117 m | 15% | 26% | |
| Les Posettes | 1.2 km | 182 m | 15% | 25% | |
| Liaison | 15 m | 1 m | |||
| Liaison Balme | 2.2 km | 218 m | 10% | 19% | |
| Liaison Esserts | 1.2 km | 112 m | 10% | 30% | |
| Retour Charamillon | 1.1 km | 84 m | 7% | 16% | |
| Solonges | |||||
| Solonges Bas | 775 m | 179 m | 23% | 31% | |
| Solonges Haut | 580 m | 161 m | 28% | 38% | |
| Stade Balme | 580 m | 174 m | 30% | 39% | |
| Variante Esserts | 200 m | 65 m | 33% | 42% | |
| Vormaine 2 | |||||
| Vormaine 3 | 70 m | 17 m |
Drop and gradients are read from a terrain model every 20 m along each run. Steepest is the steepest 100 m of a run. Runs shorter than 100 m have no gradient, and ~ marks a length estimated past a piece of the run mapped the other way.
Lifts
- 1Cable cars
- 2Gondolas
- 2Chairlifts
- 9Drag lifts
- Length of all lifts
- 13.6 km
- Rise of all lifts together
- 4,064 m
| Aiguillette | Drag lift | 695 m | 182 m | 1 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arve | Drag lift | 915 m | 237 m | ||
| Autannes | Chairlift | 1.3 km | 343 m | 4 | 6 mins |
| Charamillon | Gondola | 1.4 km | 377 m | 10 | |
| Col de Balme | Drag lift | 910 m | 186 m | ||
| Minivor | Drag lift | 135 m | 18 m | 1 | |
| Plan des Reines | Drag lift | 1.3 km | 274 m | ||
| Posettes | Drag lift | 590 m | 102 m | ||
| Téléphérique de service Barberine - Col de la Gueulaz | Cable car | 1.9 km | 783 m | ||
| TK Vormaine 2 | Drag lift | 650 m | 116 m | ||
| TSD Tête de Balme | Chairlift | 1.6 km | 610 m | 4 | |
| Vallorcine | Gondola | 1.3 km | 671 m | 8 | |
| Vormaine 1 | Drag lift | 235 m | 34 m | 1 | |
| Vormaine 3 | Drag lift | 715 m | 131 m |
Seats and ride times only where OpenStreetMap records them. Rise is the height between the stations, from a terrain model.
Places to eat and drink
Alpage de Balme
Restaurant
Buvette
Fast food
Dormio - L'Ours Bleu
Restaurant
L’Arrêt Bougnette
Restaurant
Le Café Comptoir
Restaurant
Le Chalet de Charamillon
Restaurant
Le passon
Restaurant
Les Ecuries de Charamillon
Restaurant
Places mapped on OpenStreetMap in and around the resort. Opening times, menus and reviews are in the map apps.
Weather
Summit, 2,252 m
Base, 1,260 m
Forecast by MET Norway for the heights of the summit and the base, for the next two days. Times are in your time zone.
Ski resorts nearby
| Balme - Vallorcine | 992 m | 2,252 m | 31 | 31.8 km | 14 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Vormaine | 2.3 km | 128 m | 1,611 m | |||
| 2La Poya (Chamonix) | 2.3 km | 154 m | 1,501 m | |||
| 3Les Chosalets (Chamonix) | 5.8 km | 27 m | 1,253 m | |||
| 4Les Grands Montets | 6.7 km | 1,534 m | 2,768 m | |||
| 5Brévent/Flégère (Chamonix) | 10.2 km | 1,439 m | 2,486 m | 48 | 43.4 km | 24 |
| 6Les MarecottesSwitzerland | 11.2 km | 1,073 m | 2,195 m |
Distances in a straight line. A dot stands where a figure is not mapped yet.
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