Sentence examples for of a piste from inspiring English sources

Ski down the high street Once upon a time, when mobiles were no longer brick size but still rare, there was a telephone at the top of a piste in Colorado's Winter Park resort, with a direct line to the pizzeria down at the bottom.

I can recall some unusual, short-lived places which pushed the envelope, such as a pizzeria in Winter Park, Colorado, that – in pre-mobile days – had a phone at the top of a piste on which skiers could order freshly-cooked pizzas to be served in the restaurant at the bottom.

The resort also offers igloo-building, skidoo rides and a tour of the slopes on a piste basher.

To take it is to ride the grand slalom of Morocco's south, a piste so windy that you wonder if it's a secret vehicle test track.

At Galt Alm (+43 664 5144113), above Fulpmes, in Austria's Stubai Valley, you wait at a discreet wooden sign by the side of a slope, then a piste basher turns up and throws out a rope behind it.

Its appeal is expressed in helicopter shots of snowclad mountains and the sight of spectators in their ski jackets and woolly hats crowded around the bottom of a sunlit piste.

But instead of getting to the powder by helicopter, you ride on the back of a converted piste-grooming machine - or snowmobile as they call these caterpillar-tracked vehicles in Canada.

The thin snow layer prevented me from discovering just how much of its 420m of piste a skier could cover in a day but it was possible to get some idea.

My introduction to one of the toughest resorts in Canada came in the form of an off-piste black diamond run called Powder Fields.

From the top of a perfectly-groomed piste, I watched as the distant peaks turned from rose to dusty pink in the early morning sun.

Maybe we should get a lot of piste compacting machines and compact all the snow all over the country, now that would slow any thaw.