Sport: Courmayeur

Carriage tour in the panoramic Val Ferret. Every day from 1st July to 2th September 2024 at 20 metres from the free shuttle bus stop of Val Ferret  ( Pra Sec ) and 50 metres from the car park  (Pra Sec).  Service for a fee.

Minigolf with 18 holes, open from May until the end of September, located inside an amusement park where you can carry out other activities and games.

Simulated war routes with biodegradable and atoxic paint. Woods and meadows with blockhouse and wood barriers. Open from June to September.
For children from 14 years old. Last match from 6.30pm and the duration is 1h30

Courmayeur kart track is located, at the foot of Mont Blanc, and is open in Summer and offers the opportunity to drive alone or in company.
It’s suitable for adults and children from the age of 7.

In Summer the Royal Driving Experience offers the possibility to organize team races with a duration of 2/4 hours only by reservation.

Dog sledding
Since 1996, Lovati Fabrizio has been organizing exciting tour groups in Valle d‘Aosta and spectacular dog sledding sport events: dog sledding excursions.

Your first time dog sledding
Experience the thrill of driving a team of sled dogs in the unspoilt nature in the Valle d’Aosta while admiring the Mont Blanc, accompanied and assisted by musher Fabrizio Lovati and specialized guides.

Children between 4 and 8 ride in the sled with a guide. Usually, starting at 9 until 12 they can drive alone like adults, to their great satisfaction!

Location:

The route is located in Courmayeur in Val Veny: immersed in the wild nature of Val Veny, in an uncontaminated landscape at the foot of the Mont Blanc chain.

The duration of the excursion lasts depending on the route and the number of participants, from a minimum of 1 hour and a half to a maximum of 2 hours.

Recommended clothing:
The excursions will operate in all weather conditions. We recommend wearing waterproof and durable footwear (after-ski or trekking boots), winter clothes, gloves, earmuffs or snow hats, sunglasses. Don’t’ forget your camera. At what age can you get started.

Our little friends have the opportunity to drive a sled (accompanied or alone).
Younger children get a ride on the guide’s sled, whereas ages 9 and older can try on their own if they choose the Your first time dog sledding program.

Incentives & team building service
We organize company incentives and provide structural and logistic support for the production of documentaries, commercials, movies, and themed events.

Reservation needed in advance.

Altitude: 2,958 m
Location: Col d’Estelette
Sleeping places: 4
Open: always open
Difficulty: EE
Trail sign: 13
Ascent: 3h15 from La Visaille
Coordinates UTM-WGS84: EAST 330617
Coordinates UTM-WGS84: NORTH 5071478

The bivouac was inaugurated in 1925 and in 1951 it was dedicated to the memory of Adolfo Hess, an electrical engineer from Turin and a mountaineer, who created the first fixed bivouacs in high mountains. Hess designed the badge of the Italian Academic Alpine Club (CAAI), of which he also became president.

Access:
From the Elisabetta Refuge carry on along the path until the crossroads for Les Pyramides Calcaires.
Take the path on your right that leads to the moraine then cut off sideways towards the river flowing down from the glacier.
After crossing it, head along a grassy slope following the twists and turns in the path until you come to a steep pass with debris on the right.
Go back up it following the path trails until you come to the top and the Colle d’Estellette, where you will find the Bivouac after turning left and passing the last of the rocks.

Equipment: melting water.

Altitude: 3,180 m
Location: Brenva Glacier
Sleeping places: 4
Open: always open
Difficulty: F
Trail sign: no
Ascent: 5h from Entréves
Coordinates UTM32-WGS84: EAST 337449,154
Coordinates UTM32-WGS84: NORTH 5077795,999

Access:
Access suitable for alpinists.

Equipment: melting water.

Altitude: 2,810 m
Location: Pré de Bar
Sleeping places: 18+4
Open: always open
Difficulty: E
Trail sign: 24
Ascent: 3h30 from Arnouvaz
Coordinates UTM-WGS84: EAST 349591
Coordinates UTM-WGS84: NORTH 5085154

The small and old metal plate bivouac dates back to 1952. In 1973, the new wooden structure with galvanized cover was placed near the older one. Both bivouacs are dedicated to the memory of Cesare Fiorio, a mountaineer from Turin who died in 1931. He was one of the founder members of the CAAI, the Italian Academic Alpine Club.
Access:
Follow the road that from Arnouva leads up the Col Ferrent until you come to the hairpin bend from which a small path branches off on the left. Take this path and it will lead you to a small valley.
Carrying on up to the left, pass a grassy ridge and still on your left, cross a small stream. The path then moves onto the crest of another canyon at the end of which you should cross it again towards the left under the Col Grapillon.
The path continues on the moraine slopes towards the southern edge that should then be passed and, after various valleys, heads towards Mont Dolent until you come to the two Florio bivouacs.

Equipment: blankets, mattresses, melting water.

Altitude: 3,818 m
Location: Colle delle Grandes Jorasses
Sleeping places: 8
Open: temporarily unfit for use, tilted at 4°
Difficulty: D
Trail sign: no
Ascent: 6 h from the Boccalatte Refuge
Coordinates UTM-WGS84: EAST 342864
Coordinates UTM-WGS84: NORTH 5081502

The bivouac is dedicated to Ettore Canzio, the founder member and first president of the Italian Academic Alipine Club (CAAI). In 1961 it was placed on the same place of a pre-existent bivouac (Città di Monza bivouac), installed in 1950 and mysteriously crashed on the Italian side one year later.

Access:
Access suitable for alpinists.

Equipment: blankets, mattresses, melting water.

Altitude: 2,835 m
Location: Fréboudze Glacier
Sleeping places: 8
Open: always open
Difficulty: mountaineering PD
Trail sign: 53
Ascent: 4h from Ferrachet
Coordinates UTM-WGS84: EAST 345854
Coordinates UTM-WGS84: NORTH 5082429

The first wooden hut was built in 1949 by the University Subsection of the Italian Alpine Club (SUCAI) of Turin. It was dedicated to Giusto Gervasutti, a mountaineer from Friuli-Venezia-Giulia, in memory of the friendship with the young people of SUCAI. Gervasutti was a complete mountaineer, skilled and capable both in rock climbing and in high mountain ascents.
The bivouac was completely rebuilt in 1961, using wood and metal plate. In 2011, on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the foundation of SUCAI Ski Mountaineering School, the University Subsection and the Italian Alpine Club of Turin decided to realize a new structure completed on 22nd June 2012.
Access:
Access suitable for alpinists.

Equipment: blankets, melting water.

Altitude: 2,430 m
Location: Greuvetta
Sleeping places: 9
Open: always open
Difficulty: EE
Trail sign: 22
Ascent: 2h30 from Arnouvaz
Coordinates UTM-WGS84: EAST 348296
Coordinates UTM- WGS84: NORTH 5082762

The bivouac was built in 1982 by Gianni Comino’s friends to commemorate his inspiring figure and his great talent. He was born in Fiammenga di Vicoforte (CN) and he was 24 years old when he became a mountain guide. He made many ascents with his friend Giancarlo Grassi. Comino died on 28th February 1980 while attempting the first ascension of the serac on the right side of Poire, on the Brenva mountain side, Mont Blanc.

Access:
From the car park at Arnouvaz, cross the river and follow the unsurfaced road that leads to the bottom of the Val Ferret. After about 100m leave the road and head to the left following the track leading to the Dora di Ferret that can be crossed on a bridge a little further upstream.
On the bank opposite, the path continues through large rocks and is only marked by cairns and red arrows. Once you find yourself in a small clearing, head left and you will reach the left bank moraine of the Triolet Valley. Carry on up the edge of the moraine until you come to the start of a valley, often covered in snow.
Turn left here and head up along the rocky crag where you will come up against a few stretches on rocks. The path continues on between bushes coming back onto rocks a little way ahead on the South-East slope of Monte Greuvetta.
Turn left once again and you will find yourself at the bivouac.

Equipment: blankets, melting water.

Altitude: 3,046 m
Location: Petit Mont-Blanc
Sleeping places: 9
Open: always open
Difficulty: EE
Trail sign: 14
Ascent: 4h from La Visaille
Coordinates UTM-WGS84: EAST 332186
Coordinates UTM- WGS84: NORTH 5072693

The bivouac, inaugurated on 2nd August 1964 and named Giovane Montagna bivouac, was dedicated in 1972 to the memory of Gino Rainetto (1927-1971), who died in a ski mountaineering tour to Croix de Chaligne, Great Saint Bernard valley.

Access:
From La Visaille carry on along the road until you come to Lake Combal and from here head towards the moraine of the Miage glacier, where there is the refuge Cabane du Combal (1970 m).
Carry on to the left on the path n. 14, climbing diagonally on steep, grassy slopes with debris.
Carry on up towards the basin between Mont Tseuc and the Aiguille de Combal and cross the stream. The path continues with a steep climb entering a gravelling valley. Be careful not to make stones falling on the part of the path below. Depending on the season, it is possible to find snowfields. Then the slope decreases and some cairns show the right direction. Carry on upwards crossing some snowfields and pass the steep rocks that lead to the rocky shoulder where the bivouac stands.

Equipment: mattresses, blankets, melting water.

Altitude: 3,264 m
Location: L’Aiguille de l’Évêque
Sleeping places: 6
Open: always open
Difficulty: AD
Trail sign: no
Ascent: 7h from Tronchey
Coordinates UTM-WGS84: EAST 345041
Coordinates UTM-WGS84: NORTH 5080908

The bivouac dates back to 1961 and is dedicated to the mountaineer Mario Jachia.

Access:
Access suitable for alpinists.

Equipment: blankets, melting water.

Altitude: 3,852 m
Location: Pic Eccles
Sleeping places: 6
Open: always open
Difficulty: AD
Trail sign: no
Ascent: 6h from the Monzino Refuge
Coordinates UTM-WGS84: EAST 334872
Coordinates UTM-WGS84: NORTH 5076438

The bivouac is dedicated to Giuseppe Lampugnani (Pinin) and Giancarlo Grassi.
Lampugnani, a mountaineer from Novara, was a founder member of the Italian Academic Alpine Club (CAAI) and he was a climbing partner of the Gugliermina brothers in many ascents on Mont Blanc and Monte Rosa. His publication ‘Vette’, written with the Gugliermina brothers, is very famous. He was an officer of the Alpine troops in World War I and deserved a silver and a bronze medal.
Grassi was a mountain guide, a writer, a mountaineer, a pioneer in the research of new climbing routes and also contributed to the development of the modern ice climbing techniques.

Access:
Access suitable for alpinists.

Equipment: blankets, mattresses, melting water.

Altitude: 2,325 m
Location: Combalet all’Aiguille Noire
Sleeping places: 20
Open: temporarily closed due to rock fall risk
Difficulty: PD
Trail sign: yes
Journey time: 2h30 from Purtud
Coordinates UTM-WGS84: EAST 337640
Coordinates UTM-WGS84: NORTH 5074914

The first Noire refuge was donated by Mario Borelli to the Italian Academic Alpine Club (CAAI) and was inaugurated on 22nd July 1923. Restored in 1952, he was dedicated to the memory of Lorenzo Borelli, a founder member of CAAI and its president in 1922-23. The current refuge, inaugurated on 14th September 1969, was built by the Aosta Valley region, the section of CAI and the Pietro Micca society from Biella to commemorate Carlo Pivano. Pivano died on 21st June 1963 during the expedition to the Peruvian Andes.
Access:
Access suitable for alpinists.

Altitude: 3,490 m
Location: Dames Anglaises
Sleeping places: 4
Open: always open
Difficulty: D
Trail sign: no
Ascent: 5h from the Monzino Refuge
Coordinates UTM-WGS84: EAST 336150
Coordinates UTM-WGS84: NORTH 5076289

The bivouac, built in 1933, was given to CAAI ( Italian Academic Alpine Club) by the family of Piero Craveri.

Access:
Access suitable for alpinists.

Equipment: blankets, melting water, partially safe.

Altitude: 3,371 m
Location: Rochers du Mont-Blanc
Sleeping places: 10
Open: always open
Difficulty: D
Trail sign: no
Ascent: 7h from La Visaille
Coordinates UTM-WGS84: EAST 332569
Coordinates UTM-WGS84: NORTH 5076429

The equipped section of the Rochers route is unusable due to a landslide.

The Quintino Sella mountain hut is located along the southwestern ridge of the Rochers of Mont Blanc and dates back to 1885 (the year after Sella’s death). It was placed on the only Italian normal route (Sperone della Tournette) that existed from 1872 to 1890.
In 2015, two years after the celebrations for the 150th anniversary of the foundation of the Italian Alpine Club, the restoration works of the refuge began. This mountain hut is dedicated to Quintino Sella (1821-1884), a scientist, politician and mountaineer from Biella. He founded the Alpine Club on 23rd October 1863, which, two years later, became the Italian Alpine Club (CAI).

Access:
Access suitable for alpinists.

Equipment: blankets, melting water.

Three open air courts. Summer opening.

Indoor courts five-a- side football.
Reservation is needed and possibility of rental equipement.

Open air fields.
5-a-side and 7-a-side football
The fields must be reserved.

The Courmayeur Sport Center located in the hamlet of Dolonne just 1 km from the center of Courmayeur, offers the most varied sports to be played throughout the year: fitness gymnasium, indoor climbing, tennis, squash, ping pong, pickleball, padel court, ice skating, a 25x15 five-a-side football pitch, a regulation five-a-side football pitch for training, a multi-sports pitch (five-a-side football, basketball and volleyball), playroom, Ice Café bar.

Within the structure of the Courmayeur Sport Center there is a free wi-fi area.

The 10,000 sqm. covered of the Courmayeur Sport Center are available, in addition to sports events, also for: congresses, fairs, exhibitions, markets and other events.

There is also the possibility of renting  equipment for tennis,  skating. For the opening hours of the various activities, please contact the property. 
Check the times on http://www.courmayeurmontblanc.it

Accessibility

As a result of the mapping carried out in 2023 as part of the "Lo sci per tutte le abilità" (Skiing for everyone) project, the following was found:

• The building has several entrances on the various floors, with no significant differences in height near the entrance doors.
• The second basement can be accessed with vehicles (for direct access to the ice rink) or by a lift with the required characteristics and dimensions.
• Near the building, there are public car parks with spaces reserved for disabled people.
• Orientation inside the building is easy thanks to internal signage placed at strategic points, and a secretariat is available to users and athletes.
• The building can be divided into two parts, the western part (ice rink area) and the eastern part (multi-purpose hall/convention centre area), served by lifts that meet the required characteristics and dimensions.

Golf Club Courmayeur et Grandes Jorasses, born in 1935 on a project by Peter Gannon ed Henry Cotton, offers breathtaking views of the Mont Blanc and Grandes Jorasses massifs.

The nine-hole course with double starts is fairly flat and winds along the banks of the River Dora, crossing it with two spectacular par 3.

The Club House, born as a hunting reserve, has been recently renovated preserving the classic style of the montain lodge.

Facilities and services: Club House, bar, restaurant, buvette, pro shop, golf school, driving range, putting e pitching green, clubs, trolleys and golf cart to rent.

Times: 8am-8pm ( June: 8.30am-6.30pm)

With a reservation you may take computerized group or individual lessons: a simulator portrays real national golf courses where competitions are held.

Winter time in Courmayeur offers to ski lovers, the possibility of trying, besides of classic alpine discipline, the heliski.

It’s the practice of off-pist and freeride skiing in altitude, employing an helicopter as a mean of transportation.

Leaving from the hangar of Entrèves, an hamlet which is located at 3 km from the centre of Courmayeur, in few minutes of flight, it’s possible to reach white peaks, admire unique panoramas in the sight of Monte Bianco to dive in powder snow with fantastic descents on the glaciers.

The heliski can be put into practice with alpine mountain guides who are experts of the mountains and able to value the best descents according to:

• snow conditions
• weather conditions
• single skill of the people

The professionalism and the deep knowledge of the area can permit to Heliski Courmayeur to create flexible and individual programms according to the different needs of the skiers.

To ski at the foot of the highest mountain of Europe will be a unique and unforgettable experience, not to miss.

The Courmayeur cablecar is closed until next Winter.

The Courmayeur cablecar is located in the town centre and rises to  Loc. Plan Chécrouit on the ski area where other lifts and ski slopes leave, is open to both pedestrians and skiers. A few steps from the arrival of the cable car you can find bars, restaurants and a baby club, ski rentals and storage shops and ski schools.

Departure : Courmayeur (1.224 m)
Arrival : Plan Chécrouit (1.704 m)

Winter times:

• 8.25 - 24 (holidays)

• 8.45-24 (working days)

After ski and dinners

Throughout the winter season, the Courmayeur cable car will be open every evening until midnight, allowing you to enjoy an aperitif or dinner at altitude while enjoying the sunset over the snow and the lights of the villages seen from above.

Fares: € 12,00 a/r single fare. Holders of season ski passes and consecutive multi-day tickets, from 4 days upwards, can use the service free of charge (the Teleskipass, on the other hand, is not valid because it is only for skiers). Customers present in the ski area before 4.45 p.m. will be transported to the valley without further charge, regardless of the type of ticket they hold.

Timetable: from 5 p.m. onwards, the cable car runs at regular 20-minute intervals (5 p.m. / 5.20 p.m. / 5.40 p.m. / 6 p.m. and so on). When the cabin is full, the ride departs immediately, without observing the 20-minute interval. For safety reasons, during the evening service, the maximum number of persons transported is 60 and only one car at a time is permitted. For this reason, it may happen that a car may have to leave empty, even if there are customers waiting for the ride, as it only carries passengers in the other direction.

Restrictions: unless authorised, ski touring is not permitted,  on the ski area after 5 p.m. it's forbidden to ski.

Winter 2024/2025

• open from 30th November 2024 to 6th April 2025