Blue MTB trails

Bellecôte

Starting from the top of the Roche de Mio gondola and heading around the Lac des Blanchets, these blues follow the same start. One turns off left and back towards Aime 2000, covering 12km and the other takes a right fork and takes you back towards Belle Plagne and back to the bottom of the gondola covering 11km. There's a small amount of climbing +170m and +150m respectively, but the descents are what it's all about: -875m and -810m with some spectacular views.

Trail no.8

From Plagne Bellecôte you can take this back down to the valley floor, through the trees on a whopping 12km trail. There is a 150m climb involved but the -1,100m descent more than makes up for that. Watch out for pedestrians though, this is a shared trail. 

Montchavin - Les Coches

If you fancy a much shorter trail there's one of 1.5km that you pick up at the bottom of the Lac Noir chairlift and descend -150m to the bottom of the Montchavin lift. 

Trails 16, 17 and 18 

These three also start in this area. 

The 16 and 18 tracks are both 10km long with the shortest being no.17. 

If you prefer no uphill, then trail 18 is the one for you with -700m descent from the top of the Pierres Blanches lift, or if you don't mind a little bit of a pedal, trail 16 has +135m and -600m. Both of these longer trails take you through the lovely forests around Montchavin and you can easily connect to Les Arcs from here via the Vanoise Express mid-week. 

Plagne Montalbert 

One blue trail which loops up and around the village is a bit challenging at 8.5km long and it has a bit of a climb (+464m) and then back round through the trees to your starting point. 

Champagny - trail no.24

Heading over the far side of resort there's also a blue trail that starts and finishes from the Champagny gondola and is a manageable 4.2km and -600m of descent. 

If you feel brave you can head over onto the red trails which criss-cross on the way down, and also arrive back at the gondola. 

Find the trails on the map here.