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Skiing on closed pistes
 Poster: A snowHead
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under a new name wrote:
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"closed for competition"


is fair enough though.

Ultimately, you are skiing on a private domain and by buying a lift pass you have agreed to abide by their conditions ...

The trick seems to be to skin up a closed race piste from the bottom, obviously zig-zagging between the gates, you can claim not to have seen the "closed" signs as they are at the top, maybe don't even have a lift pass.
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 Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person

rayscoops wrote:
Well I did ride a closed piste yesterday, knee deep powder in places, boot deep everywhere else. It's the first day this chair and area of the mountain has been open.

No risk, ridden this piste many times before, I could see all of it from the chair, no avalanche risk around it, no different to the adjacent open piste except it hadn't been pisted.

The beginning off the piste is the access to a big off piste area and the route back from the off piste area to the chair lift.

It was fantastic.

Maybe they will get round to bashing it soon.

That's the dilemma - 99.9% you will have no issues, it's just that one time, you take a tumble, do an ACL, need a rescue... and then.

But I would probably have done the same.
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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?

So today I go up the Gondola again, it was open Sunday in crazy winds (day trippers buying day passes), then shut on Monday because of wind, open today but the two pistes off it are closed so no route down - only two options and one accesses an entire closed part of the mountain and the other accesses an open part of the mountain ... I asked the security lift guy at the base entrance gate to the Gondola if I can board down and he said yes Puzzled

I went down the piste that accesses the open side of the mountain and open chair lift and the piste is better than just about any other piste in the resort (one small 10 m length where it was a bit bare that could have been sorted by moving a bit of snow) yet shut.

Instructors up there with early intermediate (at best) skiers going down it.

Sometime you just have to live your life and do what you want snowHead
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@rayscoops, I sympathise (well, sort of Laughing ) and I think it's actually not very good practice from the piste security. I've had pisteurs shepherd me off the mountain at the end of the day (quite rightly) so that they can all go home and the piste bashers can do their work. They should try to be consistent and do their level best to keep people off closed pistes, if there is good reason, or open them formally if not. The vast majority of us want to do the right thing and be assured that we are secure and that our insurance is valid.
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 Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.

@Layne, I just went down the 'must keep open' Blue piste route and it was carnage, multiple 10+ 3rd day lesson groups kettled through a 5 m gap in path literally with gravel patches and leading on to a chopped up canon snow (steep-ish) Blue that they can't turn on ... yet a perfectly good high up piste is shut.

Madness ... gone for a beer new Laughing
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rjs wrote:
under a new name wrote:
Quote:

"closed for competition"


is fair enough though.

Ultimately, you are skiing on a private domain and by buying a lift pass you have agreed to abide by their conditions ...

The trick seems to be to skin up a closed race piste from the bottom, obviously zig-zagging between the gates, you can claim not to have seen the "closed" signs as they are at the top, maybe don't even have a lift pass.

The “trick(y)” part of skinning up a race piste is you never know if a racer will be barreling down at Mark II speed!
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