A Unique Resort

WORLD'S LONGEST SKI RUN

Since 1976, Sarenne run, the longest in the world at 16 km, is the elder of the great runs connecting Pic Blanc to Gorges de Sarenne (1510 m). It is also the starting point for numerous off-piste courses. : Combe du Loup, Côtes de Rivet, Pied Froid, Cerisier comb and corridor.

Thanks to the skirun network, Sarenne has given birth to some smaller runs like La Fare or Château Noir … allowing an optimum discovery of the resort. Accessible from the Pic Blanc skilift and the Marmottes III cable car, these black and red runs offer itineraries from east to west over the Grandes Rousses Massif.

SARENNE BY NIGHT

Sarenne by Moonlight

Every month this winter, the SATA offers a “ski in the moonlight” excursion.Take the last car of the Pic Blanc cable car up to 3330m.
Take a little gastronomic break in the GUC mountain hut, in the heart of the Sarenne Glacier, under a stary sky, daydreaming on the snowy peaks with a unequalled sunset.
Descend the Sarenne ski run in the moonlight, down to Huez, where a bus is waiting to take you back to the resort of Alpe d’Huez.

For rates, dates and more information visit Sarenne by night.

 

AN ATIPICAL SLOPE

Technical details

 • 1962 : birth of a myth (off-trail itinerary)
• 1976 : run is marked and secured
• Departure altitude: 3320 m on top of Pic Blanc
• Arrival altitude: 1500 m at pont du Gua
• Vertical drop: 1820 m
• Length: 16 km
• Difficulty: black
• Characteristic: world’s longest skirun
• Exposition: due South, then West in the gorges
• Descent length: about half an hour for advanced skiers, and one hour for an average skier.
• Access: DMC 1 + 2 , then Grandes Rousses skilift or Marmottes I and II followed by Funitel Marmottes III
• Flow: 1000 skiers a day
• Project: build around 30 snow makert on the lower part (under 200 m)

FIRST 8000

Grandes Rousses massif offers good skiers the possibility to go down through 8000 m of vertical drop and 65 km of descent in only 4 descents. Four routes to ski down, one after the other, without having to take the ski lift back up!

4 descents about 2000 m each, with no ski-lift, and that each skier can achieve at its own speed: a season, a holiday week, a week-end, even a day for experts...

To authentificate their "First 8000", skiers can validate their Pist Map with the ski-lift staff at the start of Pic Blanc cable-car and at the arrival of each of the 4 descents.