Winter Sports

Spinner · Post by **Spinner** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 9:03 pm

Does anyone else here ski or snowboard? I ski, although I'm by no means an expert. I went again to France recently and enjoyed it, despite somewhat icy conditions.

Hannibal · Post by **Hannibal** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 9:46 pm

I've Cross-Country skied once in my life before, about four years ago. It was really fun.

Hopefully I'll get to do it again sometime...

wetmonkey442 · Post by **wetmonkey442** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 2:56 pm

I snowboard. Although there aren't any large slopes on the East coast.

I'm fairly good, I'm able to hold my own (without falling too much) on most Blue Square rated trails, but I wouldn't even dream of trying a Black Diamond.

Spinner · Post by **Spinner** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 8:33 pm

How do they grade slopes your side of the ocean?

wetmonkey442 · Post by **wetmonkey442** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 9:32 pm

There are different intermediate levels depending on what mountain your at, but the basic levels are: Green Circle, Blue Square, and Black Diamond. Beyond that are Double and Triple Black Diamonds.

How do they grade them in Britain?

Spinner · Post by **Spinner** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 9:49 am

There aren't too many skiing resorts in Britain (

) apart from some rather temperamental ones in Scotland - one generally goes abroad to Europe instead. There they grade pistes in this fashion:

Green - very easy
Blue - average
Red - difficult
Black - very difficult

Having said that, Green was not listed as an option on the piste map when I last went - they had re-classified most (if not all) of the green slopes as blues. Why, I don't know.