The Lodge

The Reception
It is here on your arrival that you sign in for your ski week. Groups get organised according to ability levels and friendships on arrival, so that we can be the first on the mountain. Most skiers are guided at `Skiers Lodge´.


The Lounge We have a personal interest in making your ski week the most memorable and fun ever. Already the first evening one meets the other friendly guests and the next day one starts sharing the adventure spirit with the lodge story tellers, spills and thrills. Relaxing lounge area with open fireplace, sofas and a library.


The Restaurant
The focal point of the evening is dinner. The modern international culinary style cuisine coming out of our kitchen has been growing in stature and popularity with our hungry yet discerning guests. A restaurant with a cozy atmosphere where you will be served 4-course gourmet dinners with a wide selection of wines. Big buffet breakfasts in the mornings are also not to be missed!


The Rooms
We wish to cater to only 30 guests a week, who during a week’s vacation, wish to enjoy a life-time experience of off-piste skiing within a very cozy, friendly, comfortable, and high standard accommodation.







The PUB
K2 inspired exciting  Bar or Pub menu enjoyed while listening to a very wide range of music played by international DJs. This menu has some of the following dishes which we will leave it to your wild imagination to guess what they are: Phat Luv, Burning Luv, Apache Chief, Made ‘N La Grave, Outlaw, Seth Pistol

…Once having something in the tummy we encourage you to enjoy some of our daily special Big Kahuna cocktails: She’s Piste, Public Enemy, Work Stinks, Fugitive…It is here where you sign up for testing next season’s K2 equipment.  

The long runs over varying terrain combined with the untouched and un-policed routes have given the freedom to create and shape an exciting new outlook on style, attitude and ultimately equipment. The new performance fat category is bursting into life with a design that works with an understanding of what a 21st century free rider really wants... all terrain carving trajectory, a wide waist and deep side-cut, a board that floats in the deepest powder, holds an edge on the steepest terrain and leaves perfect pencil-like tracks on any groomed run: the best all terrain tool.

It is here where you also share your best turns with your ski buddies on our wide-screen after down-loading from your cameras and videos. Free, wireless internet access is available throughout the public area of the hotel. A terrace bar overlooking the mountain; a sheltered heated wooden deck for barbeque and aprés ski parties is also very popular especially on warmer evenings

La Grave
La Grave is a truly traditional alpine village dating back to the 12th century with a long and respected reputation as a centre of alpinism. It was here, in the latter half of the 19th century, that early mountaineering pioneers, accompanied by both native and Chamonix Guides, came to conquer the summits and seek new challenges.

Today it attracts the knowing mountain lovers who wish to experience the freedom, escape the masses, and explore a new different world. La Grave has retained all of its character, a character dominated by centuries of a severe existence at the foot of the peaks and faces of La Meije massif. There exists a rigid determination to preserve the spirit of the environment. Whether your motivation is to simply relax and enjoy the unspoiled environment and its flaura and fauna or to scale the summits, La Grave and the surrounding area offers limitless possibilities.

La Grave is situated in the Hautes Alpes region of France and is nestled at the foot of La Meije. Straddling the Route National 91 some 75 km east of Grenoble with Briancon 32 km to the east. It is on the northern boundary of the largest National Parc in France, `Le Parc des Ecrins´.

THE SKIING
La Grave and the massif of La Meije offer the biggest lift-accessed off piste skiing in the world! Not only that but it is one of the few massifs which has an incredible 2150m 2300m of (7050ft) vertical drop. This off-piste mountain range can provide exhilarating skiing terrain for the advanced skier, snowboarder and tele-marker. The Skiers Lodge is perfectly positioned within only 3 minutes walk to the lift! This lift ascends from the village at 1400m to stations at 1800m, 2400m, 3200m, and finally to Dome de la Lauze, “the Glacier”, at 3550m.

A typical ski descent offers limitless variety from tame to steep terrain commencing on this glacier, proceeding down spectacular open bowls, winding its way through small chutes, crossing glacial moraines into seemingly endless steeps and deeps in the serenity of the forest. Legendary descents from the Girose glacier, with direct lines of 2300m explain why so many riders come back year after year to enjoy free-riding with one of the most spectacular mountain scenery in the Alps.  

FMGA Mountain Guide Pelle Lang, the founder of Skiers Lodge, has come across this spectacular mountain village during his search for big mountain skiing. His dream was to create a lodge owned and operated by skiers for skiers. In 1989 this dream becomes a reality.

"Careful thought is given to the itineraries that are chosen for each day. The goal is to keep clients challenged by the terrain, but not terrified by the surroundings."

The Skiers Lodge Guide Service is willing to show riders what it considered to be the best lift access free riding in the world. All it takes is a spirit of adventure for you to share in the ultimate riding experience. The Skiers Lodge Guide Service, for which Pelle works daily as the chief guide, represents the ski part of the concept. The ambition is to create a good chemistry between guides and skiers. Careful thought is given to the itineraries that are chosen each day. The goal is to keep clients challenged by the terrain, but not terrified by the surroundings.

La Grave, de la Meije is not a ski resort. Ski resorts adapt to skiers whereas here the skier must adapt to the mountain. This is best achieved by the guidance received from the experienced guides within the Guide Service allowing the client to enter terrain otherwise inaccessible to him/her in a safe manner. All guests are given safety equipment which they are trained to use.

Groups are limited to 5 persons ensuring a good level of safety and allowing for different skiing pace. All guides are qualified by the IFMGA and speak English, French, German and Swedish. In close proximity to La Grave there are many resorts with their own micro climates and our guide team may propose one of numerous possible day trips all within an hour’s drive included in the price. Depending on the best weather and snow conditions you may be guided to secret off-piste spots in Alp d’Huez, Serre Chevalier, and Claviere with their steeps, deeps and marvelous trees. Weather and snow conditions permitting why not try the phenomenal heliskiing in Alta Val Susa (Italy).  

La Grave and the surrounding area is an ideal mountain base for ski touring. Our guide service may also propose a day or two ski touring during your ski week with us! Some of the classic alpine tours can be accessed within a simple one hour hike up into the most spectacular terrain to Multiple 2 to 3 day tours . The tours are too numerous to mention individually, but several are too exceptional not to be mentioned: Day tours - try one of the great classics: Enfetchores, Combeynot, Trois Evêchés, Pic Blanc, Replat-Bérarde Traverse, Dômes du Mônetier Traverse,Grandes Rousses Traverse. Multiple day tours of 2 to 3 days: Tours de la Meije.

A revolution in attitude, style and equipment is making the sports of skiing and snowboarding better than ever. When international ski manufacturers launched their new breed of Extreme Skis, La Grave was the chosen spot. A combination of its long ski runs, its varied terrain and its untouched and unspoiled routes, has given birth to a freedom a freedom to create and shape exciting new styles, attitudes and equipment.

Local riders long ago adopted a Free Rider attitude. This means taking responsibility for ones actions on the mountain. As the world of skiing and snowboarding pushes the limits of equipment, the industry pops out more modern equipment with a design and understanding of the 21st century rider. It is now easier than ever to float in the deepest powder, to hold an edge on the steepest terrain and to leave pencil-like tracks of a groomed snow surface.