Colle del Lys
Four skilifts on a 1,300-metre pass between the Valle di Viu and the Val Susa; the short one below the col went around 1989 and the three above it lasted until 2004.
- Region
- Piedmont
- Country
- Italy
- Status
- abandoned
- Year opened
- 1970s
- Year closed
- 2004
- Reason for closure
- The installations were obsolete and no longer met the regulations.
History
The Colle del Lys sits at about 1,300 m on the provincial road that links the Valle di Viu with the Val Susa, and the skiing there was arranged around the pass itself: three skilifts on the Viu side above the col, climbing the ridge for a few hundred metres over mostly grassy ground, and a fourth, very short, below it. They were built in the 1970s under private ownership. The short lower lift was abandoned and partly dismantled around 1989, roughly fifteen years before the rest; the three above the col kept running until 2004. The reason recorded for the end is purely regulatory - the installations were obsolete and no longer met the standards required of them, which is a recurring cause across the Italian censuses and tends to catch small operators who cannot fund replacement. The surveyors graded the environmental damage only two out of six but the feasibility of clearing the site six, the best score in the Piedmont census, so this is one of the more easily reclaimable sites recorded here. Course names were never compiled.
Lifts
| Name | Type | Manufacturer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed lift | Surface lift | One of three skilifts above the col on the Viu side, climbing the ridge a few hundred metres. These ran until 2004 | |
| Unnamed lift | Surface lift | The second of the three skilifts above the col | |
| Unnamed lift | Surface lift | The third of the three skilifts above the col | |
| Unnamed lift | Surface lift | A very short skilift below the col, abandoned and partly dismantled around 1989, some fifteen years before the others stopped |
Sources and further reading
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Location
45.1779, 7.3826