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Simple question if you go back to same resort in successive seasons will the pistes be in the same places so far as the piste map is concerned?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Megamum, simple answer, more or less.
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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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Presumably depends if they moved the piste and/or produced a new map.
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Big question is: will this thread run to 27 pages? 
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It helps if you have your sat nav out on the slopes with you 
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The lifts should be in the same place as last year..... unless its a new or replacement lift
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Megamum, I think you can get an upside down piste map for female skiers
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Most pistes in most resorts stay exactly where they are, both on the hill and on the map, their travel being limited generally by geography.
There are exceptions, with a few alterations between seasons and to a much lesser degree even week to week according to snow (but they wont re-write the piste map for that). One example might be a run being re-routed to change is grading, usually just by moving the piste markers but sometimes by moving tons of rock.
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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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| cathy wrote: |
| It helps if you have your sat nav out on the slopes with you |
At the next bar, you have reached your destination.
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Frosty the Snowman, 
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You know it makes sense.
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I think you can get an upside down piste map for female skiers
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it took me a while to work out that the top of the ordinary 3 valleys piste map is not north.
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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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pam w, Yes, it is just does not compute that Courchevel 1650 is the EASTERNMOST valley despite being furthest left on the map.
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Poster: A snowHead
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There are generally a few minor changes in most resorts over the summer. In Meribel/Motteret this year, for example, two chair lifts have been decommissioned, and three or four pistes remodelled. A piste map might be revised every four seasons or so, but you'd have to study it carefully to notice the differences.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Thanks folks, the question was born out of the kids looking at my VT piste map earlier today. They have been telling me where they want to ski down from next Easter (yes, I know that's a bit early, but conversations turned skiing after the earlier light fall of snow today). I think I'm going to need a bit more red run practice before we go. On their list is:
Glacier de Peclet 3101m
Col de la Chambre 2803m
Glacier de Thorens 3133m
Sommet de Pistes (Orelle) 3230m
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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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Yeah I do that as well 
Withouth going too OT I've seen romains site, and looked at some of the old piste maps - interesting that there's now only one run on the right of the glacier (I definitely remember skiing the 2 a few years ago) and the couple of new blacks are blues on an older piste map.
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And if you have been to a resort before, always make sure you pick up a fresh piste map when you next go there. There are bound to be at least some minor changes.
We too make sure we pick up a couple of crisp new piste maps at the end of the hols to take back with us, along with our lift passes. Don't know why as my desk is now stuffed full of them, to not very much use...
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Megamum, I think in most large resorts there'll be some change from year-to-year, e.g. new pistes, new lifts, replacement lifts in slightly different positions, with slight piste re-routings etc.
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the more absent minded and less than sanitary of you
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Kaiser, if you think an old piste map in the pocket is "less than sanitary" you presumably find it unthinkable to encounter a snotty tissue stuck to a half-eaten Mars Bar?
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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| cathy wrote: |
And if you have been to a resort before, always make sure you pick up a fresh piste map when you next go there. There are bound to be at least some minor changes.
We too make sure we pick up a couple of crisp new piste maps at the end of the hols to take back with us, along with our lift passes. Don't know why as my desk is now stuffed full of them, to not very much use... |
Yeah but how else can you answer the question on here about that fab red run, you know the one just down from the restaurant at the bottom of the funny 2 pack chair with the odd name.
Dig out the piste map and all will be revealed
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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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the more absent minded and less than sanitary of you
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Kaiser, if you think an old piste map in the pocket is "less than sanitary" you presumably find it unthinkable to encounter a snotty tissue stuck to a half-eaten Mars Bar?
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Or deciding to take home a salami thingy sausage from the charcuterie in your ski boot & only remembering it is there when you packed for skiing the following year!! NOT ME I hasten to add!
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the more absent minded and less than sanitary of you
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Kaiser, if you think an old piste map in the pocket is "less than sanitary" you presumably find it unthinkable to encounter a snotty tissue stuck to a half-eaten Mars Bar?
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Or deciding to take home a salami thingy sausage from the charcuterie in your ski boot & only remembering it is there when you packed for skiing the following year!! NOT ME I hasten to add! |
What was the outcome? was it still edible? 
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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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Going back to a have eaten pack of gum after a year is not unknown...
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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They are tough oop North
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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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What was the outcome? was it still edible?
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He never admitted eating it but I'm not convinced he didn't at least try
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I was referring to those of us who wash our clothes less frequently than once a year and hence discover "interesting" things in our pockets!
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Do you find you get chairlifts & telecabines to yourself despite a big queue??
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Kaiser, dare I ask ...was she of the blonde persuasion (takes cover) 
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| cathy wrote: |
| We too make sure we pick up a couple of crisp new piste maps at the end of the hols to take back with us, along with our lift passes. Don't know why as my desk is now stuffed full of them, to not very much use... |
All my old piste maps are now on the wall above my bed - one for each resort I've ever skied in. But that was only because I desparately needed something, anything, to stick up. The bare walls were driving me crazy 
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| mark_s wrote: |
| All my old piste maps are now on the wall above my bed - one for each resort I've ever skied in. But that was only because I desparately needed something, anything, to stick up. The bare walls were driving me crazy |
Wrong tense
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I was planning to re-paper my bathroom wall (directly in front of the loo) with Scottish Ordnance Survey maps of the area including Glencoe and Nevis. (Currently it is the first half of James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake). I had thought of using 1:25,000 maps of the Tarrentaise but Mrs snowball doesn't ski. She does, however, like Scotland.
I suppose one could use piste maps - though it wouldn't be a unified wall area like the OS maps.
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FAQ
One of my party made this collosal error last year and once we worked out why she was so confused and couldn't find the run we were on we all fell about and just went to the bar next to the lift rather than "just move on and forget about it", needless to say the drinks were on her. 
