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Odd subject heading, I know.
There's a piste in La Foux that's been closed for the 3 years we've been living out there. It's still on the map and is used by people ducking the barrier but is never groomed and has "ferme" signs at the start of it.
The piste map does get updated each year so it's not just a question of them re-using maps they had printed 5 years ago.
Could the reason be that if it wasn't on the map and was just classed as off-piste that anyone going there would have to be rescued if they got into trouble but that if someone skis on a closed piste it's stiff luck on them if they have an accident?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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ben wright, interesting one, and an opposite conjecture to the way they work in Val d'Isere, as expounded to me by an instructor last December. He was allowed to take us anywhere off-psite, but not down closed pistes - so far that matches your theory. However, for a piste to be closed it had to have been open that season at some time, otherwise it was just off-piste. Hence, early season he would watch which pistes opened very carefully, and happily take people down 'closed' pistes that had never been open.
We did go down the Face a couple of times (officially closed), but the crunching underneath my bases on the lower third showed why we really shouldn't have been there  !
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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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ben wright, Has that piste been open during the holidy weeks of half term?
There is anecdotal evidence of some resorts 'saving pistes for the holidays'. Certainly in the La Plagne network there are lifts that only open on busy days and one lift near us that is open only from 9 to 12.00 but all day at half term. 
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Has that piste been open during the holidy weeks of half term?
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Nope, it's been closed throughout the season. I've checked it at least once a week every week. There are a couple of areas that do get held back for holidays and weekends but this isn't one of them. The other runs off the same lift are always open.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Perhaps try emailing the resort and see what they say?
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ben wright, there's one in Serre Chevalier that is never open too. All the times I've skied there, and every time I check the snow reports and lift openings, i'ts always shut, even when every other piste is open.
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Perhaps try emailing the resort and see what they say?
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- I've asked a couple of the lift workers and they just shrug and say "Well, you know..."
It's not an area that's prone to avalanches either. Sheer laziness in my opinion as it's one of the farthest points from any of the places where the piste bashers are kept. There are plans to build a couple of new apartment blocks near to the lift that serves that part of the domain so maybe that will encourage them to open up that piste.
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Phantom piste? Is it closed for Harold Harbs class?
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There is a black piste in les carroz. Called Felire, it runs from just off the blue combe haut near the gondola along the line of the gondola and joins with the blue lou darbes haut. You can see it from the village if you look up the mountain. I have never ever seen it open? no idea why? It runs down through the trees and looks great, especially on snowy dates. Has anyone here skied it?
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Helen Beaumont, Which piste was it? Did you ski it anyway?
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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pistemeister, no, I think it is called les Chalets, and you can't actually see where it is suppoed to be.
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