Top Ten Toughest Ski Runs In The World

Ian,
It's anywhere, apart from a green, that I am just about to ski down :lol:

Ally

This one defeated me last year, got half way down and had to slide on my rear the rest of the way. Its not long, not high but just felt so steep. I need to conquer this next year.

Rose, for the future, you will be safer and more in control on your feet, as you have the edges on the board or skis to stop you. Clothing cannot stop you sliding. If you feel that you want to sit down, if a run is too steep, then it would be good to learn a Self Arrest Technique if you start to accelerate down an icy pitch out of control.
The easiest way to do this is to turn over to face the snow and do a press up, either on your elbows or hands, and dig your toes in. This action will slow you down.

Where is this slope, Rose?

Thanks for that Bandit. What that pic does not show is the sharp corner at the end of run. This is where the trouble was, I could'nt turn, I could only go straight. We had watched people coming down the day before and most stopped at the corner and then slid down.

LOTA wrote:Where is this slope, Rose?

Its the Battery run in Ruka.

Rose,
We got stuck on a slope as well, at Tignes, at the top of the red one in the late afternoon. The snow had all gone on quite a large section at the top, all the way across, and all that was left was the hard green glacial ice.

I did wonder a bit about what to do. I slithered across to the other side and found a tiny patch of snow right at the edge of the piste to stop on, and then I 'talked' my daughter across to me.

I wasn't sure what to do. Had I been in a boat I'd have let off a flare for the life-boat! I did think about phoning for a skidoo to come and rescue us, but I couldn't remember the number :cry: and I don't know that even a skidoo would have managed on that ice. There was no-one else there apart from one of the ski teams, and even they had a bit of job - one of them fell over :shock:

I decided to side-slip down the very edge of the piste to where the snow started again, and managed to persuade my daughter to follow me. We did manage it okay, and then we could ski again.

I don't think, in our situation, it would have been safe to either take our skis off or slide on our bottoms - it looked very slippery and dangerous to me.

Well done Rose, for even contemplating going back to your particular nightmare. Several people from our chalet spent their 3 days at Tignes when we were there sliding down icy pistes on their bottoms :D. You're certainly not the only one to try that technique!

We were back on that red piste on the morning, after they'd put some snow back on it :D

Ally

Ian Wickham wrote:Anybody know the steepest piste in Europe ?

pretty sure its in kitzbuhel-not the hannekham but another one that was very short but had warning of 70-degree in parts. Think it was called the Diretissima