St Jean de Sixt has a snowpark

St Jean de Sixt isn’t a big ski resort: it has one drag lift and one rope tow and nothing else. The five pistes include two greens, two blues and a red. Despite its diminutive size, I discovered that St Jean has its very own snow park, pictured.

I found this mini-kicker, which actually turned out to be a small toboggan course, behind St Jean Sport, one of the two ski shops in town. The guys who work there talked me through it. Bored on their lunchbreak but without enough time to properly hit the slopes, they decided to bring the snow to them. They invited me to test it, which I declined, citing the rubbish bin as an obstacle I’d likely hit. “No!” they insisted, “that’s not where you land.” I could believe them, but there doesn’t seem to be all that much space between the bin and their toboggan “course” and when I suggested they could show me, they all declined. I’m guessing the fun was in the building. Bonus points for their usage of a sponsorship flag at the top of the run.