Poster: A snowHead
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Just curious to know how everyone feels about piste names vs piste numbers?
For me i find the naming of pistes much more attractive than simply using numbers. I'd much rather be skiing a piste called 'Lucifer' (flaine) that some non descrip Red 12.
I feel names add something to a resort and numbers just seem bland.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Yep I agree, also I find it much harder to remember which run is which number, whereas a named run seems come come much easier. BTW Mephisto or Serpentine in Flaine for me
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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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Which resort(s) uses number for piste names?
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and even better with names you get to corrupt and tenuously Anglicise them
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I would normally agree, but when in Italy the other week, it was easier to remember we had skied piste 7 than remember the name.
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even better with names you get to corrupt and tenuously Anglicise them
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Yes, we have a piste called Gypaete, which our friends know as "Chapatti".
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bovril in meribel springs to mind
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Les Deux Alpes changed all theirs a few years ago from names to a numbering scheme. Convention is Name of lift run is accessed by followed by a number (I think higher number means harder run) ie Bellecombes 1 - 5, Glacier 1 - 5, etc. Grande Couloir is now Bellecombes 5. 1 or 2 runs such as Valentin and Super Diable have escaped this ignominy. Bloody confusing really and many still use the old names.
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Claude B, it would confuse me too if they did it in Serre Chevalier ,but in this instance, I was trying to warn others that there had been an avalanche which nearly landed on the piste. In the shock of it all it was easy to remember it was piste no 7 instead of Lavadoi.
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Out of interest how would you anglicise the fiacaill ridge
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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'Fiacaill' means 'teeth' in Irish, would that work?!
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And isn't Gypaete the name of Pinocchio's Dad?! Pfft, this is easy
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Humpfknick, it is Gaelic, but was thinking more of fe_k all
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You know it makes sense.
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Come to think of it I think of fe_k all quite a lot...
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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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dode, haha really? It's in Scotland then?! Totally makes sense for a mountain
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Poster: A snowHead
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Humpfknick, aye, Cairngorm
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well don't be encouraging them to Anglicise it so- there's enough of that already!!
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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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Lol
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Names every time for me. Not only can I remember them but I do not confuse them with the piste marker number.
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I find names much easier to remember, too. Using the numbers to mark distance down the piste is a lot more useful than marking the entire piste with the same number, and then when it splits, continuing to mark both sides with the same number still. So in a white out no one has a clue where they're meeting everyone else Corvara, I'm looking at you.
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I _prefer_ names, but now Hells Bells mentions it it is _easier_ to remember numbers, I just don't like them as much
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Surely every piste has/had a local name, unless the oligarth's build several lifts and many pistes between seasons. No one decides to call a run home red 7.?!?!?
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dode, how about An Bealach Abhaile??!
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If numbers are bad enough - how about Piste V, Piste N etc in Morzine?
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Sounds very similar to the Bealach na Ba, or 'pass of the cattle' highest mountain pass in Scotland... Must be a road in Ireland too I guess??
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Or mountain pass
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dode, Yep - Bealach is a bit Ulster Scots, but if you want to check out Circuit of Ireland from the 80's Bealach na Ba was one of the stages. I always thought it was sheep
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You know it makes sense.
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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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HahaThornyhill!! One cow is a bó, plural is ba. Confusing because its also what sheep say
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Poster: A snowHead
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abc wrote: |
Which resort(s) uses number for piste names? |
Every Austrian resort I have been to.
You sometimes get a few named runs, but rarely.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Humpfknick, if you want a bit of confusion, the Gaelic name for the Cairngorms National Park is Pàirc Nàiseanta a' Mhonaidh Ruaidh.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Yellow Pyranha, lol, really? Is it a rainbow mountain range??! Maybe blue in winter & red in Summer?! Lol
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Humpfknick, in French, a Gypaete is a big bird of prey - a rapace. But maybe Pinocchio's father as well. There's a two-dot accent in it which I don't know how to do, but makes it a three-syllable word "gee - pa - et". The names of pistes are sometimes banal (all those ruddy Marmottes ) but can be interesting. We have one called Cuberotte, after the Savoyard verb "to fall" (it's a narrow mogully black, an off piste run until recently, entertainingly under a chair).
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here's one... ë
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I prefer names because I'm not very numeric. I find I can 'see names' in my mind, but numbers just look like a suduko puzzle, which I'm rubbish at too
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Sadly, Bosses in Vallandry is sometimes bashed. Should they rename in Non Bosses on those days.
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abc wrote: |
Which resort(s) uses number for piste names? |
Most if not all resorts in Austria. I find getting about the resort is easier with numbers ie getting back to St Anton one afternoon was red 14, Blue 12 then Blue 4. Easy! Try remembering the names back esp. when you hit a big cross section and there are other similar pistes names.
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andy, thanks! Gainz, I can see the advantage of numbers if you have to remember a string of them - but only if the numbers are unique. Not "red 6" or "blue 6" That system seems to me to have absolutely no advantages.
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I actually found the numbers in Austria much easier to remember than the names in France... Maybe that's just my autistic tendencies...
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