The place
The Xtreme Verbier began on the Bec des Rosses in 1996 as a snowboard contest. Skiers joined in 2004 and women in 2006, and since 2008 the face has been the final of the Freeride World Tour: about 600 m of cliffs and couloirs under a 3,223 m summit. Riders choose their own way down.
Off-piste The itineraries and everything off-piste are neither prepared nor patrolled: your own risk.
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The lines
Every line here, with how hard it is.
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Bec des Rosses
■■■■■The Xtreme Verbier's face: about 540 m of cliffs and couloirs facing north-north-west, over 50° at its steepest.
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Mont-Fort
■■■■■From the top of the cable car at 3,289 m to the Gentianes: steep and moguled at the top, then a long open pitch.
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Tortin
■■■■■The itinerary north from the Gentianes: 770 m down to the Tortin lifts, unprepared, and known for its moguls.
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La Grande Journée
■■■■■From Mont Gelé at 3,000 m round to Tortin: nearly 1,000 m down, all of it unprepared.
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Mont Gelé to La Chaux
■■■■■The other way off Mont Gelé: 490 m of unprepared snow, south toward La Chaux.
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Gentianes to La Chaux
■■■■■The long prepared run from the Col des Gentianes, passing under the Bec des Rosses, back to the Jumbo cable car at La Chaux.
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Col des Mines and the Vallon d'Arbi
■■■■■Over the Col des Mines and down the Vallon d'Arbi: 7 km and 880 m of itinerary, the longest way down on the map, and a long way from a lift at the end.
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Creblet
■■■■■From the Attelas, 710 m of unprepared snow to the west.
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FIS
■■■■■The advanced run from above the Attelas down toward Verbier, 790 m through the tree line.
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Attelas
■■■■■A prepared run from the top of Attelas down to Les Ruinettes and the Funispace: the way to warm up.
