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This photograph, which I took last January 2 in La Masella, illustrates in my opinion that climate change is serious. You can see how the chairlift goes up the mountain, where you can only see the snow in the background.
The Masella ski resort is located on the northern slope of Tosa d’Alp, south of Baixa Cerdanya. It is joined to La Molina forming the Alp 2500 ski domain.
The two stations are linked through the Cadí-Moixeró cable car, through La Molina. And also by the Jumbo Tosa chairlift and the Tosa ski lift, on the Masella side.
La Masella has 74 skiable km. There are many itineraries to follow depending on the level of skiing or snowboarding and depending on the state of the snow.
One of the curiosities is that you can practice night skiing, thanks to the network of lights that illuminate 13 main slopes at the low and medium levels of the ski area. These slopes are linked by a network of seven lifts to overcome the 420 meters of elevation difference that the area has at night. In this way, Masella is known as “the night ski capital of the Pyrenees”.
Climate change is also noticeable in mountain stations. There is a general lack of snow due to high temperatures and low rainfall so far. In this context, the Baqueira-Beret slopes are the ones that currently have the largest ski area in Spain (105 of the 170 kilometers available).
