Les Esserts
Les Esserts is a mapped blue piste at Balme, on the Vallorcine side.
Previously listed as “Esserts”.
Know the route before you go.
The official blue grade does not establish width, pitch, snow conditions or suitability for a nervous skier. BlueRuns has not assigned a comfort score. The old location was ambiguous; this profile now refers specifically to Les Esserts on the Balme map.
We checked the piste identity and published grade against the sources below on . This is a desk review of official information, not an on-snow survey or a report of today’s conditions.
Sources & review details
No piste-specific comfort assessment meeting the published evidence standard.
- Balme winter piste map 2026–27 ↗Compagnie du Mont-Blanc / Chamonix tourist office · 2026–27
Reviewed 19 October 2026. A 2025–26 map is labelled as such where a later winter map was not available.
No single-piste video with a matching creator label is available for this entry.
From the piste
What it felt like, what to look out for, and a view of the way down. First-hand contributions are reviewed before publication; they describe one person’s day and sit alongside our source-based guides.
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