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Pra Loup - France

  • Pra Loup
Family Friendly
Alpine Charm
Beginner Friendly
Vast Area
Snow Sure
Value For Money
Snowpark

Average snow history

2020/21
220cm

Pra Loup overview

Pra Loup is amongst some incredible unspoilt scenery. Easily one of the major factors for skiing here is the sweeping larch forests giving great tree routes, a pretty ski area with craggy peaks poking out the forest. Linked with another ski area; La Foux d'Allos at 1800m with Les Agneliers nestled in between, the skiing is vast as well as beautiful. There's a wide-open bowl over in La Foux d'Allos that's well worth exploring.

Up at 2,600m is the Haute Provence Research Observatory reachable by gondola and with great views over the surroundings. With high altitude and north-facing slopes you get great snow reliability giving Pra Loup a long winter season. State of the art snowmaking also covers the area giving cover for the resort and linking runs in particular.

The ski area has a good mix of slopes for all levels of skier with 10 green, 36 blue, 35 red and 6 black pistes. Winning the French Label Kid award gives the resort great family credibility, the 3 children's gardens only compound this.

Split across two villages, Pra Long 1600 being by far the larger base with direct access to the slopes and the vast majority of the bars, cafés, shops and restaurants.

10 reasons to ski in Pra Loup

  1. Large ski area with 180km of piste
  2. High altitude slopes with many being North Facing means great snow reliability
  3. A nice mix of pistes for all abilities
  4. Extensive tree skiing and wide-open bowls above the tree line
  5. Surrounded by unspoilt scenery and it also gets some of the Mediterranean sun meaning a climate you won't have come across in a ski resort before
  6. Fashionable with French skiers yet unknown on the British market
  7. 2 snowparks, 5 boardercross and 3 children's gardens
  8. Super family-friendly resort with a laid back atmosphere
  9. The naturally forming halfpipes are great fun
  10. Good lift system to whisk you around the mountain

Pra Loup overview

Pra Loup is amongst some incredible unspoilt scenery. Easily one of the major factors for skiing here is the sweeping larch forests giving great tree routes, a pretty ski area with craggy peaks poking out the forest. Linked with another ski area; La Foux d'Allos at 1800m with Les Agneliers nestled in between, the skiing is vast as well as beautiful. There's a wide-open bowl over in La Foux d'Allos that's well worth exploring.

Up at 2,600m is the Haute Provence Research Observatory reachable by gondola and with great views over the surroundings. With high altitude and north-facing slopes you get great snow reliability giving Pra Loup a long winter season. State of the art snowmaking also covers the area giving cover for the resort and linking runs in particular.

The ski area has a good mix of slopes for all levels of skier with 10 green, 36 blue, 35 red and 6 black pistes. Winning the French Label Kid award gives the resort great family credibility, the 3 children's gardens only compound this.

Split across two villages, Pra Long 1600 being by far the larger base with direct access to the slopes and the vast majority of the bars, cafés, shops and restaurants.

10 reasons to ski in Pra Loup

  1. Large ski area with 180km of piste
  2. High altitude slopes with many being North Facing means great snow reliability
  3. A nice mix of pistes for all abilities
  4. Extensive tree skiing and wide-open bowls above the tree line
  5. Surrounded by unspoilt scenery and it also gets some of the Mediterranean sun meaning a climate you won't have come across in a ski resort before
  6. Fashionable with French skiers yet unknown on the British market
  7. 2 snowparks, 5 boardercross and 3 children's gardens
  8. Super family-friendly resort with a laid back atmosphere
  9. The naturally forming halfpipes are great fun
  10. Good lift system to whisk you around the mountain

Weather

2020/21
220cm

Currently unavailable

Pistes in Pra Loup

Great tree skiing through the larch forests on the lower slopes with wide-open bowls above the tree line over in La Foux d'Allos. With 180km of linked skiing, there's huge variation for all abilities and with every piste being above 1,500m there's great snow security too.

There are several natural halfpipes in the area in addition to 5 boardercross and 2 snowparks all served by an efficient lift system.

The ski area is huge compared with the tourist capacity so you'll find quiet runs, few queues and if you ski off-piste you'll find untracked powder for days after fresh snowfall.

Our favourite runs at Pra Loup

Green

Accessible from Pra Long 1600 via the cable car it's great to be able to learn high up in the ski area

Sestrieres
Sestrieres

Blue

A snaking blue that starts up at 2,500m and comes down into the tree line ending in Pra Loup 1600. A 900m vertical descent

Marmottes to Chemin du Bull
Marmottes to Chemin du Bull

Red

Aptly named as it cruises past a couple of lakes starting up at the top of the ski area

Lac
Lac

Black

All around the Gimette lift is a boarders paradise with numerous boardercross and challenging pistes

Surf
Surf
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Pra Loup piste map

Pra Loup piste map

Apartments in Pra Loup

Apartments in Pra Loup
Apartments in Pra Loup
Apartments in Pra Loup

New to Powder white for the 2019/20 ski season, we're still searching for ideal apartments in Pra Loup but we have found some we think you'll love.

Close to the resort centre and the ski lifts, they are stylish clean and comfortable. What more could you ask for?

Powder White works with 1 ski apartments in Pra Loup, a number that we're trying to grow.

 

Apartments in Pra Loup
Apartments in Pra Loup
Apartments in Pra Loup

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Additional Info

Ski passes

We know how valuable your skiing time is to you so that is why we can to pre-book your lift passes for you, to save you the time and hassle of doing it once in resort. No additional charge!

The lift passes will be ready and waiting for you in your chalet/hotel/apartment, so you can hit the slopes immediately! You can book these at any time after you've booked.

Ski & equipment hire

The last thing you want to do at the start of your holiday is queue up in a crowded ski hire shop. We understand this and that is why we offer to pre-book all your equipment so that it is ready and waiting for you. You can either collect it from the shop yourself or some shops even offer a chalet fitting service, where all the equipment will be brought around to the chalet, thus avoiding the ski hire shop completely.

Ski school

Ski school can be a real hassle to organise so let us do all the hard work for you. We have built relationships with the top ski schools in Courchevel and we can book lessons for all ability levels, both private and group lessons.

For Christmas, New Year, Russian New Year and February Half Term, we strongly advise pre-booking your lessons as soon as possible as the group lesson and private lesson slots gets booked up very quickly! You can book lessons at any time after you've booked.

Powder White is an Independent Tour Ski Operator offering our guests an informative, personal and tailor-made service. Our friendly & knowledgeable Ski Specialists are here to help, so if you have any questions, need further information, or if you have specific requirements you'd like to discuss with us, please feel free to just get in touch and we have every confidence we will be able to find the perfect skiing holiday for you.

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