What would you do if you saw this sign?
LoginStarted by Tony_H in Ski Chatter 04-Dec-2009 - 30 Replies
Ian Wickham
reply to 'What would you do if you saw this sign?' posted Dec-2009
AllyG
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On a French website about Les Menuires, they say that 'bons skieurs' should get the entire 3 valleys lift pass, and the other 2 classes of skiers they describe are 'moyen' (medium or intermediate perhaps) who should get the combined Les Menuires and Val Thorens pass (same valley), and 'debutants' who should only get the Les Menuires pass or the special beginners pass which only allows them on blue and green pistes.
Anyway, I'd still go down it. I don't think it could be any worse than that ice at Tignes in October. And I have skied the whole 3 valleys in a day, so I would think I'd count now as a 'bon skieur'.
Ally
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Eljay
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Ian Wickham
reply to 'What would you do if you saw this sign?' posted Dec-2009
AllyG wrote:I have had another think about this.
On a French website about Les Menuires, they say that 'bons skieurs' should get the entire 3 valleys lift pass, and the other 2 classes of skiers they describe are 'moyen' (medium or intermediate perhaps) who should get the combined Les Menuires and Val Thorens pass (same valley), and 'debutants' who should only get the Les Menuires pass or the special beginners pass which only allows them on blue and green pistes.
Anyway, I'd still go down it. I don't think it could be any worse than that ice at Tignes in October. And I have skied the whole 3 valleys in a day, so I would think I'd count now as a 'bon skieur'.
Ally
But is it pisted, I would think not
AllyG
reply to 'What would you do if you saw this sign?' posted Dec-2009
I would think it was pisted. They have another sign for off piste, which I think is 'hors piste' in French.
As I said somewhere at the beginning of this, there was one of these signs at Tignes on the T-bar, and we went up it anyway. I never did find out if the sign referred to the lift or the red piste down. Anyway, we were fine. Presumably they'd put the sign up because of the ice, which did make conditions very difficult.
I imagine they put that sign up when conditions temporarily become more difficult (because of ice for example) than the grade of piste would lead one to believe. Otherwise, the piste would just be graded black and they'd only get 'good skiers' or kamikaze-like beginners.
Ally
Caron-a
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Pjheystack
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Tony_H
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Ally - the signs do not refer to the lifts. You dont need to be a good skier to use a lift..... :roll:
They refer to the piste that you find at the top of them.
The sign in the pic is not at the bottom of a lift, its at the top of a really steep gulley into a long mogul field in a massive valley. Getting to the lip of the gulley was as scary as looking down over the edg first time round!!!!
Topic last updated on 06-December-2009 at 11:30