Why use Glidr at Les 3 Vallées
Les 3 Vallées is the largest linked ski area in the world. Six hundred kilometres of marked pistes connect eight resort bases — Val Thorens, Les Menuires, Méribel, Courchevel 1850, Courchevel 1650, Courchevel 1550, Le Praz, and Saint-Martin-de-Belleville — across three mountain valleys above Moûtiers in the French Alps. The sheer size is the point: on a clear day you can ski from the summit of the Cime Caron at 3230 m all the way down to Le Praz at 1300 m without repeating a single piste.
The inter-valley connections are what make the area special, and also what makes navigation genuinely useful. The lift chains between valleys are not always obvious — the route from the top of Val Thorens to Courchevel 1850 involves a specific sequence of cable cars and chairlifts that changes depending on time of day and which lifts are running. Glidr's routing engine knows the full Les 3 Vallées lift graph, including all inter-resort connections, so when you pick a destination in Courchevel from a chair in Val Thorens, Glidr plans the complete lift chain and the piste descents between each lift — not just a heading on a map.
Navigation at Les 3 Vallées also matters because the area's scale makes it easy to ski further than intended. Dropping into the wrong valley late in the afternoon means a long lift journey back. Glidr monitors your position against your planned route in real time and alerts you before a junction where taking the wrong piste would send you off-plan — useful when you're tired and the valley below looks inviting.
Live lift and piste open/closed status is shown directly on the map for the full Les 3 Vallées domain through the Lumiplay integration. You can see at a glance which lifts are running before you ski to the bottom of a slope. The map downloads once and then runs fully offline, so patchy mobile signal on the upper mountain does not interrupt navigation.