J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by Jenniewren80

AllyG wrote:

Jenniewren80 wrote:7 Sleeps for me :) :) :)

Time to start another list :?: :lol:

Maybe I should add where everyone's going (if they don't mind saying, that is).

Snapzzz wrote:I strongly suspect that to the more experienced and seasoned skier this subject has been done to death previously but i thought i would just have my say.

Having just returned from La Plagne i am still a little shocked by the gradient of some of their blue runs.

My daughter (10) can handle what i would consider to be a blue but nothing more as she still hangs on to the snowplough. So most days we set out armed with our piste maps and toured the resort via the blue trials which was great until faced with sudden steep slopes. Of course once committed to a piste there is not much chance of walking back up or even getting a chair down.

For example we can take the Mira piste from the Grand Rochette. It is a blue on the map but i don't believe it should be. My poor little girl had to kick her skis off and slide on her bum to get down. But it is only the first bit that is so steep.

So heres the questions:

1. should runs be graded according to their most difficult part?

2. do resorts deliberately 'mis label' runs to make them appear to cater for all?

3. Can you really trust the grading system?

4. Are issues such as this common place across many resorts.

By the end of the week i generally didn't worry too much about the colours on the map, I went and took a look and made my own mind up but as i said previously....its a bugger to get stuck halfway because you trusted what the resort tell you about a pistes difficulty level.

EmmaEvs wrote:

Snapzzz wrote:Would i go back? Well not anytime soon as some of the runs are pretty steep for my daughter and partner. How they can get away with calling some of those runs blue is beyond me. I intend to start another thread about this later on.

Snap! I've been thinking of starting a thread like that as some of the decisions on run grading that I've seen are a bit of a mystery to be fair! I wondered if I was the only one baffled sometimes. Glad to find it's not just me.