Switzerland to France: Les Portes du Soleil
One of the world’s largest ski areas and the oldest to offer cross-border skiing, Les Portes du Soleil is an interconnected snow land that impresses by sheer numbers alone: 12 resorts, 286 slopes and a crowd-thinning 196 lifts. The famous run here is the “Swiss Wall,” a spectacularly precipitous, mogul-heavy, half-mile descent for extremely advanced skiers that begins in France and ends in Switzerland. For those at green/blue (easiest) levels, there are roughly 150 pistes. portesdusoleil.com
Photo by Christof Sonderegger/Switzerland Tourism
