Three Days Skiing in Val d’Isere, France

Val D Isere Ski Resort — Val D'Isere and Tignes in France.

January 22, 2013 by Matt Thomas

Val d’Isere is a massive ski resort located in Southeast France near the Italian border. It’s home to endless skiing in nearly every direction and is interconnected with Tignes Resort.

Most of the skiing is above the tree line in what feels like a different world. No matter where you look you see skiers heading in all directions.

This video shows views from around Val d’Isere and Tignes, France. It’s large, so it may need to be loaded before playing, just hit play and then pause to load.

Day One: A sunny day.

Day Two: Clouds rolled in on day two, and it snowed later in the day.

Day Three: After snowing all night the Sun made a triumphant return for the third and last day of skiing.

Val D Isere Ski Office — Picking up the day’s ski pass – about $50 U.S. for an adult.

Day Four: After a cloudy walk around Val d’Isere, the next leg of our journey was Megeve.

Val D Isere Cable Car — Val d’Isere has many state of the art lifts, like this cable car.

Val D Isere — The view from the top of the Cable Car.

Val D Isere Stormy Chairlift — Our first chairlift of the day got incredibly windy.

Skiing down the piste.

Some jumps in the terrain park.

La Folie Deuce turns into a mountain disco starting around 3pm.

Val D Isere Expert Off Piste — Two experts skiing off piste.

Tignes Ski Resort France — Val d’Isere and Tignes are both almost entirely above the tree lines.

Val D Isere Tignes Village — The village of Tignes.

Tignes Ski Resort Terrain Park — A terrain park at Tignes.

Tignes Ski Resort Terrain park — A nice grab.

Val D Isere Cliff Warning — A warning for steep cliffs.

Tignes Ski Resort France — Each accesses a piste or two, and everything in between is open to off piste skiing.

Tignes Ski Resort France Piste — Heading over to that chair lift.

Tignes Resort Off Piste Skiing — Four skiers along the ridge looking for fresh off piste lines.

Tignes Ski Resort Needle Hole — Heading up to the Needle Hole.

Tignes Ski Resort Needle Hole — The Needle Hole is a popular place to relax and take pictures.

Tignes Ski Resort Restaurant — Skiing down to lunch.

Tignes France Aerial View — Riding down to Tignes and then back to Val d’Isere.

Val D Isere Paraskiers — A cloudy day didn’t stop these paraskiers.

Val D Isere Skiing — My fellow skiers.

Val D Isere Restaurant — Lunch at Restaurant La Cascade was not very good. It was just a cafeteria though.

Val D Isere Restaurant — Passed this restaurant on way down to the base. It looked inviting.

Val D Isere Ski Resort White Out — Heading down to the street for a free bus back to the center of town.

Val D Isere Cable Car — A cable car and restaurant at the base.

Val D Isere Pistes — Back up for one more run, and the clouds are breaking.

Val D Isere La Folie Deuce — La Folie Deuce is calling me in. It’s music can be heard from a good distance.

Val d'Isere La Foli Douce — La Folie Douce is a craziest on-mountain ski bar.

Val d'Isere La Foli Douce — Some guy blows a fire ball at La Folie Douce.

Val D Isere Village Snow Sculpture — A snow sculpture in Val d’Isere later that evening.

Val D Isere Olympic Piste — The Olympic Downhill run at Val d’Isere.

Val D Isere Pistes — Several chairlifts and some long rolling pistes.

Val d'Isere Pistes — A great day for skiing.

Val d'Isere Grande Motte Glacier — There is skiing on the top center peak in the distance: Grande Motte Glacier. All accessible by lifts.

Val D Isere Off Piste Skiing — Snowfall the night before means some fresh lines off piste.

Val D Isere Ski Resort — More off piste.

Val D Isere Ski Resort — Back on piste.

Val D Isere Ski Resort — A gondola.

Val D Isere Skiing France — Skiing to lunch was the theme of the trip.

Val D Isere France — View of Val d’Isere Village from the restaurant.

Val D Isere Le Signal — Lunch at Le Signal for rabbit, vegetables and potatos au gratin.

Val D Isere Genepi — And Genepi, a fine mountain liqueur. Most French restaurants served a complimentary after dinner shot.

Val D Isere Ski Area — Heading back to town for the day.

Val D Isere Skiing — You cover a lot of ground skiing here.

Val D Isere Aerial View — Taking the chair lift down for the sake of filming the town.

Val D Isere Village France — Sunset of Val d’Isere.

Val D Isere Tex Mex Restaurant — Tex-Mex in France.

Val D Isere Ski Resort — Val D’Isere and Tignes in France.

About Matt Thomas

Matt is an avid writer and explorer, who loves to showcase his home state of Colorado. His favorite place to be is right here in the Centennial State.

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