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altis, So I'm not the only one who would like them to be an actual map with contours. The pictorial ones look like some thing from a Tolkien book. I hate the bits where they have to warp the perspective in order to show both sides of the mountain on one picture.
Yellow Pyranha, I saw a hankie map in Meribel this year, although I'd tend not to try and use it as both a map and a hankie!
queen bodecia, I liked the max gradient signs in LaThuile. I'm just glad I didn't see the 72' sign at the top of the short black just above the village untill the second time I went down it!
adrian
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Dr John, where are you headed?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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How did I know Iphone was going to be mentionned...and by who... 
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Kruisler, 
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agt, I did see it and I took the blue down, a sedate 36%. However, I coped with the 65% blacks 3 and 33 and 62% black 2. There's a big difference when you get over 70% I think, it looked near vertical!
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A sample base map I made - very much a work in progress (and don't have the more recent versions to hand just now) for maps to use on Winterhighland next season that will show lift status and possibly for some areas run status.
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Winterhighland, I like that.
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Winterhighland, that's terrific!
I think the most useful are those great big boards at the top of a lift, which you can read without having to get yer specs out. Very helpful for the more elderly skier. Fortunately I mostly ski in an area where I know where everything is - and if I go somewhere else I try to make sure there's somebody else who has the eyesight to read the piste map. problem is, if it's my no 2 son, which it often is, I don't trust him to choose a sensible route. Since he tried to get me down the "piste perdu" in Val D'Isere in a white out and eventually confessed that it wasn't actually a "piste", in my meaning of the term.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Axsman, 3V, Mottaret, just in time for a big front to move in bringing cloud and rain. Cosmic.
You?
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You know it makes sense.
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Wasn't there a google street view of a piste? I know it wouldn't be a major help when out and about but would be useful when planning a day.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Axsman, so not exactly slumming it, like your style. Will be heading high each day. What forecast are you reading? Snow-forecast has it snow at around 2000
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| kitenski wrote: |
get rid of them, stop the brutal grooming and have a huge 'in bounds' ski anywhere resort  |
Quite. I like the idea a few US resorts have which is to designate lifts "Experts Only", "Advanced Only" etc.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Didn't someone post on here recently about the Serre Chevalier piste map being available on a pair of boxers? Not terribly convenient up the mountain though.
I've got a sort of 3D fold up Verbier map in plastic, I think it was free with a very early Fall Line Skiing Magazine. Doesn't look very practical though.
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Axsman, will also try and post updates, t'internet connection and beer allowing.
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Dr John, Your netbook does beer? Coool! 
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Axsman, it's the macbook beer app, best thing they've ever done
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Soll did a plastic 3D map when we were there a few years ago & it was excellent 
It was slightly bulkier than a normal map but a million times better than the normal, flimsy paper versions you get everywhere else.
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Axsman, Sorry, I did mean %.
adrian
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Ideally the resorts would give their data to OSM - that way you could have contour maps, resorts comparisons, vector based map software, geotaged photos and whatever hasn't been though of yet.
andy,
Winterhighland, is that a 3d model?
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| ringingmaster wrote: |
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| ringingmaster, I like those as an idea, I wonder how up to date they keep them. |
I think they are new this year, so time will tell. |
Hi there, I know that the wipe-outs are kept completely up to date, as you pointed out they are are new this year and all the wipe-outs have the 09-10 maps on them. The stock will be sold off, and new maps 10-11 used for next season, with more resorts included too... JulesSki
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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If you are thinking of buying one for EoSB, there is an EASTER DEAL: BUY 2 GET 1 FREE Buy 2, automatically get 1 free, any resort... if you buy them on ebay:
http://stores.shop.ebay.co.uk/Wipeout-Store
[quote]bladeskier,
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I just ordered one of these for the EoSB.
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These new type of interactive piste maps by gPixs360 are pretty good and are the best I've seen yet. You can even load up videos of the runs! http://bit.ly/8Z8VXw Obviously of no use at all when you're out in resort, but great for pre ski trip nerding!
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You know it makes sense.
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I wonder if SH's approached the wipeout company with a bulk order how much we could get knocked off them?
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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In the case of Les Crosets they could start by actually putting the runs on the bleedin' thing. Found a black run last week and an itineraearararary somewhere in the vicinity of the Grande Conche chair that were nowhere to be seen on the map.
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Poster: A snowHead
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For your consideration, the piste map for Broken River and Craigieburn in NZ. Got to love a map that rates it's runs from Easy to Suicidal.
Linky
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| Megamum wrote: |
| I wonder if SH's approached the wipeout company with a bulk order how much we could get knocked off them? |
Actually, funny you should say that! Jules is a friend of mine and this is her very first year trading with Wipe-out. In the spirit of helping out a small business and raising some dosh for SHs we're talking to admin about getting something sorted on the EoSB page, however, in the meantime, Jules has put up a Snowheads EoSB special on her e-bay shop that includes free delivery at the EoSB by yours truely (for a small donation to SH coffers for every one delivered). I'll put it up on Buy / Sell etc but seemed worthwhile giving you the link here.... seeing as you asked so nicely.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110511706705
Getting very excited about EoSB..... less than a month to go!
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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sarep, Wonderful if you are going to the EoSB!! Well done Wipeout, I would expect that to be popular. [Cheeky]I expect to be back in VT one day - can I have one at that price if I send you an envelope to post it to me[/Cheeky]
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Megamum, oh go on then! go ahead and purchase it and we'll send it to France!!!  cheeky indeed....
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I liked the fact that on the main chairlifts in Breckenridge (I’m sure other places might do this too, I think it’s a great idea) there is piste map built into a panel running across the safety bar.
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Gazzza, what a spiffing idea. Signposting at the top of lifts is generally woeful as well, certainly an area for significant improvement in every resort I've been to.
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Dr John, best signposting I've experienced is all over the 3V. The worst is Verbier. (The Swiss do have some Achilles heels, don't they, another glaring example being Geneva Airport.)
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