Crans-Montana Ski Resort beginner

Beginner

Crans-Montana has plenty to offer beginners, with 38 per cent of its pistes classified blue for beginners.

Le Signal area is a good starting point for beginners, with the gentle terrain and wide uncrowded pistes providing an opportunity to learn to ski or board without disruption. With plenty or restaurants nearby, this is the mountain’s best area for families with young children learning to ski and is ideal for skiers staying in Montana, with the Grand Signal gondola providing easy access to the area. However, with a free bus service available between the four gondolas at the base of the ski area, beginners can gain access to Le Signal via Montana without needing to ski any trickier runs. It is worth the journey to allow beginners to take advantage of the area’s peaceful environment.

The cluster of blue runs down from La Toula, Les Violettes and the Petit Bonvin areas are well suited to improving beginners, and particularly good for those staying in Aminona and not wishing to use the bus service. With slightly steeper terrain, this area will test whether beginners are ready to move on to more challenging pistes, as will the red runs which must be skied in order to navigate elsewhere on the mountain.

The Cry d’Er section of the mountain provides a natural progression for beginners ready to move on to intermediate red runs. While the red slopes here are also quite wide and not too steep, this part of the ski area is busy with cruising intermediates, but beginners also have the alternative of a T-bar served blue run down to Chetseron should the busier reds prove too demanding.