Reviews Evolene

Evolene is a small resort in the Val d'Herens, 30 minutes by bus from Sion. Like many smaller Swiss resorts, the lift system is old and very basic. Access from the valley station is via a pretty ancient and very slow 2 seat chair. Up on the hill things are not much better with just a handful of drag lifts. To its credit, these few lifts do provide access to a surprisingly large area with quite a bit of off-piste potential between the long upper traverse run and the bottom of the drags. Most of these off-piste areas are very obvious and as a result they get tracked out quite quickly after fresh snow. The last places to suffer are at the far sides of the resort. Although there is a lot of ver

Review by Anders Koffler from Oslo on Wednesday Nov 3rd. Visited Evolene in february 2010 as couple