Baqueira-Beret live webcams

What you can see on the Baqueira-Beret webcams

Three of the cameras are 360-degree panoramas that you can turn with your mouse or finger: one high on the Baqueira side, one above the open, rolling slopes of Beret and one over the Bonaigua sector. Between them they take in lift stations, wide grassy bowls, tracks and ridge after ridge of Pyrenean peaks. Three still cameras look more closely at the lower slope above Baqueira 1500, a chairlift line at Beret and the base station at La Peülla, at 1,900 m. In winter they show the snow cover, the cloud and the queues; from late spring to autumn, grass, rock and the colours of the high pastures.

The lower slopes above Baqueira 1500

Baqueira 1500 is the resort village at the foot of the slopes, where the gondola and the main car park are. This camera of the resort looks up the grassy lower piste above it: a chairlift crosses the picture, snow cannons stand along the run and the forest closes in at the top, with power lines on the skyline.

It is the camera that tells you about the bottom of the mountain, where conditions are hardest to guess from a summit view: how much cover the home run has, and whether the snow cannons are working. It faces the morning sun, so early pictures can be washed out with glare; by late morning the slope is easy to read. It is a still photo, not a video: the reload button brings the latest one.

Beret from Blanhiblar, in 360 degrees

The Blanhiblar panorama stands above Beret, the open, rounded sector of the resort, and turns all the way round. On one side a lift station and a hut sit on a grassy shoulder with the slopes rolling away beneath; on the other a wide valley opens up, with a road and flat meadows on its floor, and a long line of high peaks fills the far horizon.

Beret is the gentlest part of Baqueira-Beret, with broad, easy runs and few trees, so this is the view to check for wind and visibility: on a day of low cloud there is little here to give you a sense of distance. In summer the same slopes are good walking country.

A Beret chairlift and its slope, from the bottom

This still camera of the resort stands at the bottom of a chairlift in the Beret sector and looks straight up its line: the towers and chairs climb a broad slope dotted with pines and boulders to the ridge, with a wooded mountainside on the right. In the foreground, wooden poles mark the edge of the piste and a small pool collects the water off the hill.

It is a good camera for judging the snow on an ordinary, mid-mountain slope and for spotting queues at the lift in high season. Out of season, the grass, the streams and the colours of the pines show what walkers will find on the Beret side. It is a still photo, not a video: the reload button brings the latest one.

The Bonaigua side of Baqueira-Beret, turning 360 degrees

The Bonaigua panorama, one of the resort's 360-degree cameras, looks over the Bonaigua sector, on the far side of the pass that joins the Val d'Aran to the Àneu valleys. Turn it and you will see chairlifts strung across a grassy slope, a base building with a terrace and car park, pistes wrapping round a rocky, forested peak and, further off, deep valleys opening between the mountains.

Before crossing to this side, this camera shows whether the cloud has settled in the pass, how the lifts look and how busy the base is.

Baqueira-Beret webcam at La Peülla, 1,900 m

This still camera looks at the bottom station of La Peülla chairlift, a red-and-green building that carries the name Bonaigua 1900, at the foot of the Bonaigua sector. Behind it a track zigzags up a bare slope between two steep, rocky mountainsides, under a line of electricity pylons that follows the valley up to the pass.

The building gives you a scale for snow depth that you cannot get from an open slope: in winter you can see how high the snow lies around it. In summer the view shows the open grassland of the Bonaigua side, where cattle graze in summer. It is a still photo, not a video: the reload button brings the latest one.

Baqueira webcam high on the Teso, all the way round

This is Baqueira-Beret's own 360-degree camera on the Teso, high in the Baqueira sector, and you can turn the panorama with your mouse or finger to look any way you like. One side drops over rocky crests and grassy bowls to the lift lines and the road winding below; the other runs along a bare ridge of grass and scree, with tier after tier of Pyrenean peaks on the horizon.

From up here you judge the whole upper mountain at a glance: whether the cloud is sitting on the summits or the valley is full of mist, how the light falls across the slopes and, in winter, how far down the fresh snow reaches. In summer it is a good check before a walk on the high ground.