2023/24 winter season
The Girona Pyrenees’ ski resorts start the season with improvements to the slopes in terms of signage and safety, new rental ski equipment, new leisure and restaurant spaces, and a wider range of snow and après-ski activities for users.
DECEMBER 2023
The Girona Pyrenees’ ski resorts, with more than two hundred kilometres of slopes and first-class equipment, started the 2023-2024 winter season on 5 December with a series of new features that invite users to thoroughly enjoy their experience in the snow. These new features include:
La Molina, the most cutting-edge of the Pyrenees’ mountains resorts, boasts 71 kilometres of slopes divided among 66 routes and a snowpark. The main changes this season are the approval of the Barcelona-Estadi Lluís Breitfuss piste (by the FIS), with a route of 4,750 meters in length and 859 meters of altitude gain; the installation of new boarding belts at the Trampolí and Font Canaleta chairlifts, and the optimisation of snow production and acquisition of a green (hybrid) snow grooming machine.
Masella, the resort with 75 skiable kilometres, most of them located on the northern slope of Tosa d’Alp, and the largest night skiing domain in the Pyrenees, has improved the signposting and safety of its slopes, it has added new ski and snowboard equipment to the resort’s rental service, renovated the online shop to process ski passes and optimised the network with state-of-the-art snow machines, with greater production capacity and lower energy consumption.
Vall de Núria, the resort that offers a combination of sport, culture, relaxation and beautiful landscapes, is a benchmark in environmental preservation. The resort, which begins the season by reopening its Leisure Park, has 11 skiing and snowboarding pistes, totalling 7.6 kilometres of slopes suitable for all levels. This year it has opened a new welcome area at the rack-railway station with an information point for the natural park and a new restaurant serving Catalan cuisine, El Racó de la Vall. It is also promoting a star-gazing activity and has organised the second edition of ‘Christmas in Vall de Núria’ and a programme of mountain cinema screenings. On an internal level, Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat is promoting the EcoVall project, which incorporates environmental management systems and renewable energies.
Vallter, the most Mediterranean mountain and ski resort in the Pyrenees, has a skiable area of 13.9 kilometres, with 14 alpine skiing and snowboarding routes, as well as three freeride itineraries and four mountain routes. New for this season is the complete snow treatment of El Xalet piste, the longest slope in the resort with a length of 2,600 metres. The resort has created Club Fajol, a new children’s workshop area, and a co-working space in the La Portella cafeteria; a new weather station has been installed, and new promotional ski-passes are on sale.
Guils Fontanera, the only Nordic ski resort in the Girona Pyrenees, has launched a new approach with the help of a new management team that is modernising its image and updating the website with new content and services for users, such as online ski-pass booking and greater interaction through social networks. The resort, which has 34 km of skiing and 14 km of snowshoe circuits, will gradually introduce an improvement plan to turn the facility into an important tourist attraction for the municipality and the region.
For visitors looking to broaden their experience in the snow, the resorts offer other complementary activities in addition to the various types of skiing and snowshoeing. Highlights include proposals to extend visitors’ stay with Segway tours (ecological transport), panoramic cable-car rides, leisure and adventure parks, the snow escape game ‘Avalanche Alert’ and the Nissan X-Trail Slalom, creative and themed workshops, exhibitions and cinema series, high-altitude dinners and the La Molina Après Ski activity by Estrella Damm, among others. The Club Pirineu365 card, promoted and marketed by Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat, provides access to numerous services in the network of public ski resorts and also to the Alp 2500 domain.
