Samoens Foto: 'col de joux plane, closed and tranquil' door Alex Fitzgerald-Barron

Chris Hodgson

The col de joux plane is only used for x/c skiing when you cannot ski in the valley bottom. The 2012-13 season had such exceptional conditions that this was always possible so the Joux Plane never opened. It had nothing to do with financial pressures and everything to do with fantastic conditions in the valley!