Vars Freeride8 July, 2007
The lifts opened at Vars yesterday so I headed up to see what they had on offer. There is just the one downhill track that is closed to pedestrians. All the rest of the trails are more freeride and are open to walkers, though I didn’t see many.
There are two different areas server by three lifts, the areas are not open at the same time and the area accessed from the two chairs out of St Marie is by far the best for freeride with 1000m of descent as opposed to the 400m up at the other lift. Also from the chairs out of St Marie it would be possible to put together a number of descents back to the Chateau with around 1600m of descent.
If it is full on DH you are after then the telecabine out of Les Claux is the place to be with the World Cup course set by Cristian Talliefier, and a number of other good trails to ride.
Here is a map of the routes that I rode
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