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Télé Marécottes

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Télé Marécottes is a very cool little ski area that skis big. Perched high on a mountainside (up a wild curvy road from Salvan, above Martigny Switzerland). We loved our day skiing this unique, scenic, super special place! Télé Marécottes is in the next valley over from Verbier, beautiful, overlooking the Valais and Rhone River.

If you’re a freeskier or just love a fun hidden gem of a ski area with well-pitched exciting groomers and no crowds, check out Télé Marécottes – which is on the Swiss Magic Pass. The drive up is a few switch backs on a narrow steep mountain road clinging to the mountainside so your adventure begins right away.

Just one, new in 2025, base-to-mid mountain gondola takes you up from 1,110-meters in panoramic glass enclosed style. Its unlikely you’ll have to share the 12 passenger gondi on a weekday. The ride up is steep, and steeply scenic. You arrive mid-mountain and ski down to the high-speed quad Velarde which whisks you off to the 2220-meter summit (7,280’) called Golettaz.

From Golettaz peak, you have magnificent views in this steep enclosed canyon- like you can reach out and touch the surrounding peaks in this close Alps valley. Five prepared pistes drop serendipitously off both sides of the lift. Each trail is exciting, undulating, fun. Laps on the quad are 1400’ vertical, and each trail deserves a few laps with its interesting aspect and various fall lines. The ski area has a northeastern exposure, so its often soon sunny in the morning and the all-natural snow softens a bit after a few hours.

Télé Marécottes is a free-riders dream, with countless opportunities to go off the piste into the powder. You can venture within sight, just beneath the lift into snow fields.

Marecottes is super-popular for ski touring, with many folks skinning up from atop the Quad, up a ravine, to Tour Salliere and drop off the backside to a dam and Lake Emosson. But beware, this is big mountain terrain and if you do not know where you are going, hiring a guide is not just recommended, it is a necessity.

Just above the gondi, or down the far right slope L’Eu Neuve the Restaurant Vertic Alp de La Creusaz is an ideal chalet to stop for a coffee, lunch and views from this modern chalet. Ok, its also the only chalet at Mraecottes. Ski here for lunch with table service and floor to ceiling windows framing the Alps. Vertic serves everything from Rosti to Fondue, salads to pastas, with an efficient waitstaff in this high volume place, not cozy but clean.

Télé Marécottes no longer has a trail prepared to the base, for the full 3700’ vertical. Since the new gondola installation, you need to download, as there is no snowmaking or grooming. It’s a Luge trail, and a winter wandering trail only now.

You can ski a day at Tele Les Marecottes on your Swiss ski safari, including other ski areas like Anzere, Leukerbad, Ovronnaz, St Luc/Chandolin, Grimentz-Zinal, Télé Marécottes and more. All of these are on the Magic Pass in close proximity to each other in the beautiufl Swiss Valley Wallis, near Verbier.

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