Sentence examples for skiing pistes from inspiring English sources

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.

Factors that threaten the habitat of S. sibiricus include deforestation and construction of skiing pistes and other infrastructure for winter sports.

Ski resorts in the French Alps greatly affect alpine ecosystems through the construction of ski pistes.

The hotel may not be right next to the slopes, but the surrounding area has 37km of ski pistes and around 30 cable cars and lifts, some of which can be easily accessed by shuttle.

Many fat-bike tours only ride on this type of terrain as, in most resorts, they are banned from the ski pistes; most only allow them on the winter hiking trails.

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.

The aims were: (i) to test the hypothesis that ski-pistes have a detrimental effect on alpine grassland bird communities at a landscape-scale; and, (ii) to model local probability distributions of bird species according to different scenarios of ski-piste restoration and ski-piste proliferation above the treeline.

There is a paucity of research on the wider landscape-level effects of ski-piste construction on alpine fauna.

These showed predicted detrimental impacts of a relatively small 10% increase in ski-piste extent, but also that grassland restoration on existing ski-pistes could result in significantly increased occurrence rates of alpine grassland species.

This study suggests that ski-pistes are perceived by birds as detrimental features of the alpine landscape.

There's certainly plenty to take in around Cervinia, which opened its first slow-skiing piste last season.