Sentence examples for for pistes from inspiring English sources
An essential download for winter sports folk, Snowbuddy provides maps and weather forecasts for pistes around the world; tracks your speed and distance while skiing and snowboarding; and has some inventive social features to challenge friends.
iPhone / iPad snowbuddy (Free) An essential download for winter sports folk, this provides maps and weather forecasts for pistes around the world; tracks your speed and distance while skiing and snowboarding; and has some inventive social features to challenge friends, or simply (virtually) yodel at them.
snowbuddy (Free) An essential download for winter sports folk, this provides maps and weather forecasts for pistes around the world; tracks your speed and distance while skiing and snowboarding; and has some inventive social features to challenge friends, or simply (virtually) yodel at them.
However if the weather socks in, there is the insurance of woody Les Houches for piste and tree skiing.
Most — but not all — travel insurance policies with winter sports cover allow you to claim for piste closure due to lack of snow, so check your policy's small print carefully.
Some of them are very small: the skiing at Hoch Imst, above the Inn Valley, about 50 kilometres west of Innsbruck, amounts to no more than nine kilometres of pistes, for example.
A week's Zillertal SuperSki pass comes in at £173 for 671km of pistes, and because it includes the Hintertux glacier you're pretty much guaranteed snow all season.
And when (or if) the snow arrives, ski- and snowboard-laden visitors will be heading for the pistes, including the Cairngorm, Glencoe and Nevis Range areas.
The Kitzbüheler Alpen AllStarCard covers 10 Austrian ski areas including Kitzbühel, St Johann in Tirol and the newly formed Ski Jewel area of Alpbachtal and Wildschönau – more than 1,000km of piste – for £188 for six days.
Its 18.5 miles of pistes cater for all abilities with a network of 11 drag lifts.
In that time I've been lucky enough to explore New Zealand's unique alpine culture - and while the resorts will never match Canada for snowfall or Europe for kilometres of piste, there are plenty of things to celebrate about 'Skiwi' culture.
