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Sports resorts in medium-range mountains have to face climatic changes, an evolution of customers’ tastes and the sudden emergence of new sports on their sites. In the present article I try to show how a small winter sports station in Vercors (France), Font d’Urle, is adapting itself to this new order. Emerging sports have been considered as innovations and their actors have to coexist socially and in the same space with the actors of skiing. The survey reveals a double situation. On the one hand, space elsewhere than in mechanical ski lifts becomes invested with new practices where humans and non-humans converge together into a collective. On the other hand, itinerant sports practices trying to go across the resort are the subject of much controversy. The advances achieved by these collectives can be explained by the multiple use of space, by their continuity and discontinuity and by the disruption caused to the actors and the space of the main activity: skiing.