One of the places that hosted Winter Olympic Games Torino 2006, bardonecchia is conveniently located near the French-Italian border.
It is easy accessible by car via A32 motorway ( only 90 km from Turin ) or by local or international train running between Milan and Paris.
Bardoneccha Ski Area offers 120 km of downhill slopes with majority of red ( advanced ) runs , and several off-piste skiing routes.
Unfortunately, at the time of writing not all runs have planned artificial snow supporting, which makes the skiing conditions weather dependable.
But tourist, who decide to spend their holidays there, besides snow can enjoy plenty of apré-ski possibilities, numerous restaurants,pubs discos,
many of them located along Via Medail , or see one of events in internationally recogised 'Palazzo Delle Feste'.
About 20 km from Bardonecchia is the beginning of famous 'Vailattea' Ski Area with Sestriere, Sansicario and 'French Connections' - Montgenevre.
Resort location:
1312 m
Highest lift :
2750 m
22 lifts total
8 chair
14 ski lift
32 runs (110 km ) total
17 blue
12 red
3 black
Cross-country skiing :
13 km
Bardonecchia IAT
Phone 0122 99032 - Fax 0122 980612
bardonecchia@montagnedoc.it
[photo courtesy of Danny Nicholson]
Saturday, 21 November 2009
Ski Resort Bardonecchia
Saturday, 2 May 2009
Gran Risa
La Gran Risa, one of the most beautiful slopes of the Dolomites, is located in the Alta Badia ski area, part of the famous Dolomites Superski.
The black run is 1.255 meters long, with an elevation gain of 448 and a maximum gradient of 54%, surrounded by a pine forest which is why almost completely in the shade all day, making it almost always frozen.
The telecabina from the village of La Villa at 1433 m goest to the top of Piz la Ila ( 2077m).
From Piz la Ila there are two runs black - Gran Risa , and simpler variant red - Alting.
Since 1985, the Gran Risa hosts giant slalom for men's World Cup Alpine Skiing, which takes place usually at the ent of December.
In 2005, in the final part of the track there were added two gigantic humps, 150 meters long and with a slope exceeding 40%,
that addition made possible the approval of Gran Risa also for the special slalom races.
TECHNICAL DATA
Start 1.871 m
Finish 1.423 m
Vertical drop 448 m
Lenght 1.255 m
Maximum incline 53%
Minimum incline 16%
Average incline 36%
La Gran Risa has become, thanks to the World Cup, a tourist attraction, and demanding challenge for all the fans from Italy and other countries.
Thursday, 30 April 2009
Pista Zeno Colo 3
The first downhill competitions in Italy have been held in Abetone in 1922.
Since that time the ski resort grew up many of world famous skiers like Zeno Colò, Celina Seghi and Vittorio Chierroni, also Alberto Tomba
practised in this area.
And so it was Zeno Colò, who in 1973 took part in creation of three most popular runs in the resort.
The pistes are called as you can guess 'e tre Zeno' ,
and they are numbered Zeno 1 (black) Zeno 2 ( red ) and Zeno 3 ( red ).
The Ovovia lift goes to the top of Monte Gomito, from where the three runs parallel descend through the forest starting from around 1820 m to finish at 1300 m.
The most popular is Zeno 3 ( sometimes referred as Zeno Colò 3 , or Colò 3 )
which is often chosen for various ski slalom competitions, both regular and unofficial.
Zeno Colò
born in Abetone, 30 VI 1920
died in San Marcello Pistoiese, 12 V 1993
19 50 Aspen, FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2 gold 1 silver
1952 Oslo, winter Olymipc Games 1 gold