Pas De La Casa Ski Area
Pas de la Casa is the northeasternmost point on the Grandvalira and one of six village resorts – Pas de la Casa, Grau Roig, Soldeu, El Tarter, Canillo and Encamp – now connected by means of a common lift pass.Already the chairlift TSD6 Estanay heads east out of Pas
de la Casa into France and the addition of Porte des Neiges across
the French border into this 193 km sequence of runs is anticipated
soon.
Skiing in Pas de la Casa begins at TSF4 Solana from the top of
which it is possible to get to all the other runs in the
Grandvalira. If you get to the end and don’t want to ski back,
there’s a free ski bus from any point on the Grandvalira all the
way back to Pas de la Casa – the bus displays the word
“Grandvalira” so you don’t mistake it for the local village
transport.
All ski lifts have both a numeric code and a name noted in upper
case on the ski map while the ski pistes themselves just have names
some of which sound curious to Anglophones “clot”, “muflo”. “llop”,
“cucut”, “fagina” and “tubs”) but you quickly get used to
them.
From Pas de la Casa you can ski over the Coll Blanc (2,528m) into
Grau Roig and back again. Grau Roig is not the most exciting place
in the world – it’s basically one hotel and a car park – but you
can eat there and if you plan your route cleverly you can take in
the two freestyle areas known as “portella” at the top of the
button lift Coma Bianca III.