The concept of the 'Ski movie' slope has been with us for a couple of winters now, and the first of a new version of the still new concept has just opened in France.
The 'ski movie' slope, which first appeared in the Austrian Skiwelt last winter and this season at Saalbach, among other resorts in the German-speaking Alps, is a special piste where users can be automatically tacked by means of their lift ticket by one or more cameras at they ski or board down the slope.
The result, according to the resort's marketing department at least, is a 'professional standard' film I(rthe quality of the actual skiing or boarding is down to you, which can be downloaded for a few Euros, posted on YouTube, linked to on Facebook and Twitter and all the rest.
The latest version, believed to be the firwst in France, has opened at Saint Lary in the French Pyrenees.
Here the concept in the – 'DC Live Park' is a little different. Skiers and boarders wear a thumb-sized sticker on their ski-helmet so the video camera can pick up the signal and track you on the slopes. But the result is the same, a video you can see later date on the Internet or mobile phone.
If you're interested in more conventional spending, Saint-Lary has also invested over three million euros in new children and learner ski areas of the resort so there is 30% more space.
There are also two new luge runs and the De Le Rue brothers have opened a new 700m long boardercross.