A blue-run day you can picture.
Three blue-run picks on Val d’Isère’s own slopes: two Solaise laps from the village and upper Diebold from La Daille. Choose your starting lift and the ride down first. These are separate outings for skiers already linking turns on blues; they are not a nursery-slope itinerary or a route across to Tignes.
3 blue-run choices · 2 matched run videos · 1 short slope clip
Official Tignes–Val d’Isère ski map · 2026–27 ↗
Choose a starting point and a finish.
These are separate outings grouped by sector, rather than a connected circuit or a ranking from easiest to hardest. Check the first lift and the return before choosing your accommodation.
A blue grade does not make every pitch or connection suitable for a first ski day. These plans assume controlled turns on blues; choose a dedicated learning area for first turns.
First turns? Start with the Val d’Isère beginner guide →Before you book a room.
Use the property’s actual address as the starting point in walking directions. Check steps, hills and winter access with your host; distance to the nearest slope is different from the walk to this lift.
For: Plan Milet · Col de la Madeleine
Village snow front, Rue de la Face, Val d’Isère, France
La Daille and Le Fornet are different starting points. Check the walking route to Solaise or your local shuttle stop, and use your ski school’s exact meeting point.
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La Daille, Val d’Isère, France
The pin marks the lower funicular station in La Daille, not its upper station on Bellevarde.
Official lift access ↗The walking link opens Google Maps so you can enter the hotel there. BlueRuns does not need its address.
Two upper-mountain blues, with a gondola ride home
Plan Milet and Col de la Madeleine share Solaise as their village starting lift. Each needs another chairlift on the mountain, and Datcha is part of the planned return. Pick one lap first and leave time to regain the gondola; the blue grade does not describe the descent into town.
A blue on the high Solaise slopes, with a lift back to the gondola for the trip down to the village.
Footage: February 2020 (creator description). Plan Milet footage was filmed in February 2020. Use it to preview the descent, then check the current map and daily openings for the lift plan.
Village snow front, Rue de la Face, Val d’Isère, France
Choosing a hotel or apartment? Enter its address as the starting point in walking directions, then check the route to this lift.
Board Solaise in the village. Olympique is the neighbouring lift to a different mountain.
By train, travel to Bourg-Saint-Maurice, then take the bus to Val d’Isère. The local Train Rouge shuttle links La Daille’s bus station with the village centre. Board Solaise at the snow front for the upper mountain; the plan above lists the next lift for your run.
Arriving by car: P1 Face de Bellevarde car park. Leave the car in P1, then walk to Solaise at the village snow front. The map pin marks the gondola, not the car park. Parking details ↗
Add your starting point and travel date in Google Maps. Check the last local connection and lift back down.
Blue laps on Solaise
Watch for. Plan is a separate red run. Do not follow it downhill to the village when you mean to stay on Plan Milet. The Leissières chair crosses the ridge into another sector; you do not need it for this lap.
Video identity / embed review: 2026-11-11. A creator’s footage shows that visit, rather than today’s snow or lift operation.
A blue across upper Solaise, with mountain views and a chairlift back towards the gondola. Keep the skiing up high, then ride down to Val d’Isère village.
Matt · @mathilts
Loads Instagram’s player when you choose to watch.
A short clip of Col de la Madeleine supplied by a BlueRuns reader. It does not show the whole descent or establish the lift approach. The video stays on its creator’s Instagram post and loads only when you choose to watch.
Village snow front, Rue de la Face, Val d’Isère, France
Choosing a hotel or apartment? Enter its address as the starting point in walking directions, then check the route to this lift.
Board Solaise in the village. Olympique is the neighbouring lift to a different mountain.
By train, travel to Bourg-Saint-Maurice, then take the bus to Val d’Isère. The local Train Rouge shuttle links La Daille’s bus station with the village centre. Board Solaise at the snow front for the upper mountain; the plan above lists the next lift for your run.
Arriving by car: P1 Face de Bellevarde car park. Leave the car in P1, then walk to Solaise at the village snow front. The map pin marks the gondola, not the car park. Parking details ↗
Add your starting point and travel date in Google Maps. Check the last local connection and lift back down.
Solaise blues with a gondola ride down
Watch for. Madeleine, without ‘Col’, is a separate green run. Follow the blue Col de la Madeleine signs for this lap. Plan is a red descent towards the village; use Solaise gondola for the ride down instead.
Upper Diebold laps, with a lift down to La Daille
This is a different starting village from Solaise. Take Funival up, keep the outing on upper Diebold, and use La Daille gondola to finish. Funival and the gondola have separate entrances, so check the walk from your accommodation to Funival before booking.
The upper Diebold blue starts on Bellevarde. Keep your laps on the upper mountain and use La Daille gondola for the final descent to the village.
Footage: March 2026 (creator title). Filmed in March 2026, from Bellevarde to Folie Douce beside the upper La Daille gondola. The creator arrives by Olympique; this guide starts at Funival. The preview does not cover the lower ski descent to the village or the gondola ride down.
La Daille, Val d’Isère, France
Choosing a hotel or apartment? Enter its address as the starting point in walking directions, then check the route to this lift.
The pin marks the lower funicular station in La Daille, not its upper station on Bellevarde.
The bus from Bourg-Saint-Maurice arrives at La Daille’s bus station. Take Funival up to Bellevarde for upper Diebold; the planned finish uses La Daille gondola down.
Arriving by car: P2 La Daille car park. Park at P2, then follow Funival signs at La Daille. This is a different entrance from the La Daille gondola. Parking details ↗
Add your starting point and travel date in Google Maps. Check the last local connection and lift back down.
Upper-mountain laps on Bellevarde
Watch for. Haut means upper: this plan stops above the lower Diebold descent. OK and Orange alongside it are red runs, and Face de Bellevarde is black.
Video identity / embed review: 2026-11-11. A creator’s footage shows that visit, rather than today’s snow or lift operation.
The last walk matters.
The neighbouring area has its own village choices. Compare Anémone from Le Lac with Grattalu, Carline and Henri from Val Claret, each with a matched preview and a local return. The shared map does not mean the two resorts have interchangeable hotel bases.
Tignes blues, videos and Le Lac versus Val Claret →For Plan Milet or Col de la Madeleine, check the walk to Solaise at the village snow front. For upper Diebold, check Funival at La Daille. A short distance on a map can still involve a shuttle or a walk in ski boots; use the walking-directions link for the actual hotel address.
Compare the starting areas and accommodation →The Solaise outings use Datcha chair followed by Solaise gondola. Upper Diebold finishes at La Daille gondola. Ask about the last uphill chair and final downhill ride that day before starting another lap; the lifts in each return need to be open.
Check the operator’s lift access and pass information ↗The snow-front learning slopes and Solaise’s Pim Pam Poum carpets are different from these blue circuits. Use the meeting point in your lesson booking, and ask which pass covers Glacier, Madeleine and Datcha rather than assuming a carpet ticket includes them.
Nursery areas, carpets and first-day planning →For an upper-mountain outing from Val d’Isère village, start by comparing Plan Milet’s video and Col de la Madeleine’s lift plan. The lift company includes Plan Milet among its family favourites. Neither is a first-turn slope: choose the nursery areas or carpets if you are not yet comfortable linking controlled turns on blues.
No. Madeleine is green; Col de la Madeleine is blue. They share the Solaise sector, so read the full piste name on the sign. The blue outing here uses Madeleine chair, then Col de la Madeleine towards Datcha.
Yes, these plans finish by lift when the required return lifts are operating: Datcha and Solaise for the Solaise outings, or La Daille gondola after upper Diebold. This still requires skiing the chosen blue to reach the return lift. Plan towards the village is red; Face de Bellevarde is black.
They are on the Tignes side of the linked ski area. BlueRuns covers them in the wider resort collection, but this shortlist keeps its three choices on Val d’Isère’s own slopes. A shared ski area does not make the village starting points interchangeable.
Three Val d’Isère blue choices with full source-linked approaches and returns, distinct from nearby Tignes pistes. The current official map, available creator footage and credited historical photographs support choosing a starting base; a blue plateau does not establish an easy village descent.
Original route-review dates stay with each run. Filming or publication dates appear beside each video; photographs retain their source, author, licence and capture date. A resort view or starting-area photo is labelled separately from a photograph of the named piste.