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Summer Ski Areas in the Alps those still open and remembering the closed
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This post appeared on one of on the Weather Outlook Thread and it got me wondering how many there are still and how many there were in the heyday of Summer skiing in the 70’s and 80s .

Post by @whitegold below

France had a huge 13 summer ski resorts between the 1950s and 2010s.

Tignes
Val d'Isere
Les 2 Alpes
La Grave
La Plagne
Alpe d'Huez
Les Arcs
Serve Chevalier (CdG)
Val Thorens
Chamonix
Bramans
Maupas
Luchonnais

I obviously have heard of most but some I haven’t . I can’t remember one at Les Arcs presumably a drag on the Aiguille Rouge Glacier , but do remember the small area in La Plagne and the two small ones in Val T .

Would love to see some archive pics .
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@Rob Mackley, Les Deux Alpes and La Grave still open in the summer, LG just for race training.
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Bramans seems to top out at 1800m so how the heck did that ever open in the summer?
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@rjs, les 2 alpes didn't open this summer, it stayed open in the spring for clubs snd training
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@rjs, race training at La Grave? Shocked must be an interesting home run Twisted Evil
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@under a new name, There are drag lifts above the gondola, get the gondola back down.
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@kitenski, Just taken a look , looks like there was an old glacier on the Colle del Sommeiller above which had some form of road access .
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rjs wrote:
@under a new name, There are drag lifts above the gondola, get the gondola back down.


Interesting piece here with photos (with translate) of summer glacier skiing on Sommeiller up until 1984.

https://torinostoria.com/sommeiller-i-torinesi-dello-sci-destate-55-anni-fa-aprivano-gli-impianti/
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Snow&skifan wrote:
rjs wrote:
@under a new name, There are drag lifts above the gondola, get the gondola back down.


Interesting piece here with photos (with translate) of summer glacier skiing on Sommeiller up until 1984.

https://torinostoria.com/sommeiller-i-torinesi-dello-sci-destate-55-anni-fa-aprivano-gli-impianti/


Good link.

More detail and pics on the Bardonecchia, Italy, glacier (Bramans, France) and summer ski area from the 1960s to 1980s here.

https://www.summitpost.org/the-dying-glacier/836042

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1988 Val Thorens Summer Ski map Wink.

http://www.remontees-mecaniques.net/forums/uploads/1379791707/gallery_74_972_372446.jpg
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Actually, here is a very thorough set of articles on the topic, with a bunch of pics (all in French though).

https://www.skipass.com/news/203744-ski-d-ete-tarentaise.html
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@Whitegold, great link to the Sommelier photo story. Makes me realise just how much lift served skiing has been lost in Europe over the last 50 years.
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