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Les Diablerets is a pleasant, unspoilt village in a grand setting. Its amiable intermediate skiing is linked to that of Villars, and the big news this year is that the link will at last become one that intermediate skiers will enjoy. The Diablerets glacier is nearby, but you have to buy a regional pass to use it, and it doesn't add up to much. The village of Les Diablerets lies in a broad valley beside the Diablerets massif, towering a neck-craning 2000 metres above the resort.  The road up to the village goes on over the Col du Pillon to Gstaad; Leysin is easily reached by road or railway, and Villars is linked by lifts and runs. Les Diablerets gives access to three separate ski areas. Two start from the village, but their base stations are widely separated. Stupidly, the piste map gives no indication of difficulty. Meilleret is a thickly wooded north-facing intermediate area, served by drags starting a long walk from the village centre. This sector is linked to Villars (covered by the lift pass), and the link will be much improved this winter, with a new lift and piste connecting Villars to the bottom of Diablerets' Laouissalet drag-lift.Isenau is a small open section of easy runs reached by gondola from the top of the village, with long, easy runs back down to the village.

The piste map shows a run down from Isenau to the base station of the third area, at the Col du Pillon (1545m), but it is usually reached by bus. A gondola goes up to Pierres Pointes (2215m) with a black run down. This is the limit of the skiing covered by the Diablerets pass; you need the Alpes Vaudoise pass if you want to go on up by cable-car to ski the Diablerets glacier and the runs from it. The short runs on the glacier would hardly make Les Diablerets a snow-reliable resort even if they were covered by the usual lift pass. The long black run down to Col du Pillon is dark and forbidding, but not as super-tough as it looks. There is little else for advanced skiers. The Combe d'Audon piste, from the glacier to Olden, is one of the great away-from-the-lifts runs of the Alps, and can be tackled by adventurous intermediate skiers. Moderate skiers will enjoy the Meilleret and Isenau skiing, and can now enjoy Villars. There is an adequate nursery slope, served by an awkward rope tow, at the foot of Meilleret, but the best beginners' area is at sunny Isenau. Near-beginners will find Isenau ideal, apart from using drags all day. There is 27km of cross-country skiing, including a pretty trail to Vers 1'Eglise and a loop up at Isenau.

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