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Piste names vs numbers

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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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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 Very Happy
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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

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 Shocked
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'Fiacaill' means 'teeth' in Irish, would that work?! wink
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And isn't Gypaete the name of Pinocchio's Dad?! Pfft, this is easy wink
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Humpfknick, it is Gaelic, but was thinking more of fe_k all
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Come to think of it I think of fe_k all quite a lot...
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dode, haha really? It's in Scotland then?! Totally makes sense for a mountain Happy
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Humpfknick, aye, Cairngorm Very Happy
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Well don't be encouraging them to Anglicise it so- there's enough of that already!! wink
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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 rolling eyes 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 Smile
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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??! wink
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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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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 Happy
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Yeah an bealach abhaile translates as the home run, bealach na ba as you said, is the way of the cows. The word for a road is bothar, which incidentally also translates as the way of the cows (because the original roads were formed by cowpaths). Cairngorm sounds interesting!! Maybe I'll make it there sometime Wink PS cairngorm would translate as the blue hill- is it blue??! Lol Wink
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Well, just now, I'm glad to report it is white Very Happy Very Happy
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HahaThornyhill!! One cow is a bó, plural is ba. Confusing because its also what sheep say wink
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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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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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Yellow Pyranha, lol, really? Is it a rainbow mountain range??! Maybe blue in winter & red in Summer?! Lol Cool
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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 rolling eyes ) 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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