The Biolley – Aime 2000 sector has some of La Plagne’s toughest black pistes but, as is always the way in La Plagne, there is also a multitude of intermediate runs to make your way down from here and gain the maximum descent. While it’s possible to follow only blue runs to reach the same destination (by taking the Edmond Blanchoz (formerly Cornegidouille)) this route extends La Plagne’s famed Super Slalom track, departing a little above the start area of the Slalom but following a similar combination of runs that’s used for the annual comp held in late March / early April.

La Plagne longest routes – Aime 2000 to La Roche

To follow this track you’ll need to get to Plagne Centre and take the Becoin chair in the direction of Aime 2000. Thereafter, there’s only one slight deviation off the route that feels more natural (the Edmond Blanchoz (formerly Cornegidouille)) – although it’s pretty well signposted.

In total, this path will give a vertical of around 800m starting from the top of the Becoin at 2345m and dropping right down to 1523m and the base at La Roche near the Olympic bobsleigh on a varied blue piste and red piste. When you reach the bottom, you can take the super-fast Roche chair back up to Aime.

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Take the Pavane from the Becoin chair

The natural route of the Pavane follows a rather flat pathway high above Plagne Centre passing one of La Plagne’s best on-hill restaurant/bars with the best views in the resort before dropping towards Aime 2000. If the slightly steeper (and often scraped) pitch above Aime gives you the fear, you could always use the Reservoir blue piste to reach the same point. Note, in the video above you want to turn left at the top of the hub of the Golf chair, Envers chair and Roche chair (the Pavane continues to the right) at around 0.25 before joining . . .

 

The blue Golf piste at Aime 2000

The Golf blue piste at the back of Aime 2000 must be one of the best beginner / early intermediate areas in all of La Plagne, for many reasons – not least of which is the incredible views it affords over to Mont Blanc. However, we’re not here to take in La Plagne’s scenery. There’s work to be done so follow this piste to the base of the Golf chair then, when you round the corner turning skier’s left, go a little way past the André Martzolf red that drops to your right until you pass under the Roche chair and see another run also dropping away skier’s right which is the . . .

 

Emile Allais red piste

The Emile Allais is another of those La Plagne runs that almost effortlessly (and certainly without most skiers or snowboarders noticing) flows into another piste to complete the trip to base. The join to Email Allais happens at around 0.11s in this video. Although we didn’t split the runs in the video above, the bottom section of this piste is actually the André Martzolf – or perhaps that’s the other way round. Who knows but you’ll take whichever run this is down to the Roche chair to head back up to Aime.

One of the great pities about this run (and we reckon an oversight on the part of La Plagne), is the fact you’ll need to ride back to Centre to complete the whole circuit again. This is also true for most of the black pistes at the back of Aime 2000. The only reason we can figure for not extending either the Roche chair or the Envers (which also gives access to the blacks) is possible problems with the wind as the ridge above Aime can get quite exposed in bad weather.

 

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