What would you do if you saw this sign?

What sign???

Tony are you going to let us know where? is it the link from tignes to val.d?

Tony,
You didn't see that T-bar lift at Tignes. I wouldn't be at all surprised if the sign did refer to the lift (or at least the path one travelled on).

It was very steep and icy, and what was even worse, it had huge holes in it, and when you looked down one of the holes it was like looking down a well - totally endless - presumably crevasses in the glacier :shock: :shock:.

I am pretty tough, but it did make me feel fairly sick looking down these holes, and when I had a more careful look from a distance, I could see that the glacier seemed to be slipping to the side of this T-bar lift and I remembered that the lift the other side was out of action because the pylons had literally fallen over.

Was that mogul field the one in those other photos you had? It did look fairly horrible. Well done for getting down it. I guess I'd have had to sit down on most of it.

Ally

It's more a case of how many times can we do 1 before the lifts close! :D

I've seen a couple of these signs and plenty of people on the other side of them who shouldn't be.

One was in Tignes, the sign is at the bottom of the Col Des Ves lift which takes you to an area called Le Spot which is all unpisted. There's an avalanche equipment training area there. Great area to test your skills, really interesting terrain. We saw this guy at the top, he was in a GT snowplough struggling down the first little bit, he kept stopping and looking down then skiing a little bit more. Didn't like to tell him he was on by far the easiest bit of the run.

andyhull wrote:
One was in Tignes, the sign is at the bottom of the Col Des Ves lift which takes you to an area called Le Spot which is all unpisted.

Thanks Andyhull - bang goes my theory then, that they are temporary signs for pistes which temporarily happen to be harder than they're graded for. That particular sign sounds as though it should really have said 'expert skiers only'.

Ally

pjheystack wrote:Tony are you going to let us know where? is it the link from tignes to val.d?

No, it was in Verbier at the top of the itinerary route at Tortin which was followed by a really steep drop and a massive mogul field.

andyhull wrote:

I've seen a couple of these signs and plenty of people on the other side of them who shouldn't be.

Oh yes. Probably including me the first time I went down it! "Bon skiers" really does mean very good skiers and is probably under rating the seriousness of what lies ahead.