Livigno – Carosello/​Mottolino

Livigno ski resort– Carosello/Mottolino is located in the Alta Valtellina (Italy, Lombardy, Valtellina). For skiing and snowboarding, there are 115 km of slopes available. 30 lifts transport the guests. The winter sports area is situated between the elevations of 1,816 and 2,798 m.

Has the climate crisis and the higher temperatures affected snow conditions in Livigno – Carosello/​Mottolino?
Look at the statistics and graph of historical snow depths for the ski resort.
For the last 5 years, week 9 has been the most insecure with 128 cm snow depth on average in Livigno – Carosello/​Mottolino.
The measurement is made as an average of the snow depth at the highest and lowest point of the mountain.

Livigno’s recipe of a fair-sized mountain, high altitude and fairly low prices is uncommon, and obviously attractive, and may be enough to get it on to your shortlist, especially if you are a beginner or unadventurous intermediate. But don’t overlook the non-trivial drawbacks listed above. After banning off-piste for several years up to 2012/13 the resort now allows it and has heli-skiing as well. Livigno is set in a wide, remote valley near the Swiss border; the airport transfers are long and winding. The Alta Valtellina lift pass covers Bormio (about an hour’s bus ride – free with the lift pass) and Santa Caterina (another 20 minutes). The Livigno pass gets you half-price on one day in St Moritz – an excursion not easily done from any other major resort.

PROS:

• Reliable snow
•  Large choice of beginners’ slopes
•  Impressive modern lift system
•  Cheap by the standards of high, snow-sure resorts

CONS:

• Few tough pistes
•  Mainly above the treeline, so susceptible to white-outs
•  Very long transfers from some Italian airports (Innsbruck is much quicker)
•  Village is very long and straggling, with no buses later in the evening

Source: Ski Club of Great Britain

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