Sentence examples for closed pistes from inspiring English sources

Avalanche risk was still significant (3/5 yesterday) so off piste skiers are advised to heed local advice and not to ski on closed pistes.

In the French Alps, ski pistes have been closed at Val d'Isère - one of the biggest resorts - and Chamonix has stopped most of its ski lifts.

So much, in fact, that it caused problems of its own: ski lifts submerged under nearly six metres of the stuff, pistes overflowing faster than the piste-bashers could flatten it, and such persistent snowfall that the avalanche risk could not be managed, leading to closed runs and even closed resorts.

We were the ones who greeted our guide's early-morning announcement – "unfortunately, because of high winds, the new gondola is closed and we can't connect with the pistes of the other Ski Circus resorts as planned; I'm afraid we'll have to spend another day in Fieberbrunn" – with ear-to-ear grins.

It has closed one ski slope to skiers and snowboarders and turned it into a fat bike piste.

As for the ski season, unfortunately the roof terrace will be closed in winter (when, along with the glacier, the full Tignes Val d'Isère ski area covering 186 miles of piste is open).

But the exhilaration needn't end when the pistes close: Let your hair down under that ski hat and discover ShermansTravel.com's favorite après-ski scenes around the globe.

Since the former mayor Eugen Larcher managed to convince authorities to open up the nearby glacier to skiers and hikers in the 1960s, the valley has become an upmarket slow-travel destination: close to nearby skiing pistes but not overrun by tourists, with high-speed broadband and a newly built spa.

Most rooms have a balcony – some so close to the piste they feel like commentary boxes – and the majority have a Matterhorn view.

Like in Innsbruck, the pistes remain temptingly close.

Sempre Ski, however, offers a great- value half-board chalet stay in the mellow resort of Bardonecchia, which has 140km of pistes itself and is close to a number of other resorts.