| Altitudes |
Saint-Bon (1100)
Le Praz (1300)
Courchevel 1550
Courchevel 1650
Courchevel 1850 |
| Number of inhabitants |
1 850 |
| Ten leading countries
(according to the number of
skiers) |
1) United Kingdom, 2) France, 3) Belgium, 4) Russia,
5) Holland, 6) Spain, 7) Germany, 8) Greece, 9) Switzerland,
10) USA. |
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|
The skiing |
|
| Highest point on the pistes |
2 738 m |
| Lowest point on the pistes |
1 100 m (Saint Bon) |
| Downhill skiing runs (in kilometres) |
150 |
| Number of runs in the
Courchevel ski area |
119 ( green: 27, blue: 43,red: 39, black: 10) |
| Cross-country runs |
66.05 km |
| Walking paths |
19 km of marked and groomed paths |
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|
| Courchevel ski area |
|
| Number of snow cannons |
563, covering 27 % of the ski area |
| Number of grooming machines |
21
(60 % of the ski area groomed every morning) |
| Groomed pistes (in ha) |
300 hectares/night |
| Piste security systems |
65 Gazex (avalanche triggering devices
radio-controlled from the piste security office to
ensure that the ski area can be opened as quickly
as possible after heavy snow falls)
4 Catex (a cable that carries explosives of between
2.5kg and 5kg) |
| Ski lifts |
|
| Number of lifts |
62
Moving mats: 3
Drag-lifts: 28
Fixed chairlifts: 8
Releasable chairlifts: 12
Small cable-cars: 1
Cabin cable-cars: 9
Large cable-cars: 1 |
| Capacity |
70,362 persons per hour
1.580 million ski days during the winter 2005/2006 |
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| THE 3 VALLEYS
Key figures |
600 km of runs
334 downhill runs including 47 greens, 135 blues, 119 reds
and 33 blacks
118.55 km of cross-country runs
Altitude of ski area: 1300 - 3230 metres
183 ski lifts
Maximum transport capacity of 259,230 skiers/hour
1,920 snow cannons
76 grooming machines, covering 1,842 ha of marked runs
16 fun zones and snowparks and 6 toboggan runs |
