Skiing

The reason for wearing salopettes while skiing is to protect the pants and underwear underneath from getting cold and wet from the snow causing discomfort as well as being very cold.

The Ski resorts of Scotland are (west-east): Nevis Range, Glencoe, CairnGorm, Glenshee, The Lecht. All have websites & all but Glenshee have webcams. Skiing in Scotland is often marginal due to strong winds & recurrent thaws but it can be excellent. There is no on-piste accomodation at any ski area & all are difficult or impossible to access by public transport. Possible are Nevis Range (bus from Fort William), Cairngorm (bus from Aviemore) and Glencoe (bus from Glasgow or possibly Fort William). A quick run down on each follows. The mostly widely known area, CairnGorm is 9 miles from the small town of Aviemore, just off the A9 trunk road, 40 miles south of the city of Inverness. Skiing takes place in 2 bowls (Coire Cas & Coire na Ciste) on Cairngorm, Scotland's 4th highest mountain. There have been lifts here since 1961. A controversial Funicular railway, opened in 2001, runs up Coire Cas. Its planning lead to the demise of some useful lifts, so access to the steeper parts of the ski area in Coire na Ciste has been slightly compromised. At the top of the funicular is the UK's highest restaurant & shop (1097m) and a large gently sloping area with tows for beginners. Intermediate skiers are well catered for with a mix of blue and red runs at the top of the Ciste & all down the Cas. Further down the Ciste, the West Wall and East Wall are lift-served steep black runs. This area often has the longest & most reliable season (December-April approximately). This area is set just off the A82 Glasgow-Fort William road on the mountain of Meall a'Bhuiridh. The setting is spectacular, just south of Glencoe itself, one of the most scenic areas in Scotland. This is the oldest ski area in the country, the first lifts were built in 1956. The ski runs follow natural hollows and the area is north-facing so it holds snow well. The steepest marked run in Scotland, the Flypaper, can be found here and there are numerous easier routes but terrain for beginners is limited. There are few lifts but they access many runs & the largest vertical drop (760m, not usually fully skiable). The lift & mountain infrastructure is generally old & as of April 2009 the owners are seeking new investment. This area lies on both sides of the A93 Perth-Braemar road, at the point where it is the highest public road in Scotland (652m). It spreads over 3 valleys & 4 mountains & boasts the countries largest lift infrastructure (>20 tows). Some of these are doubled button tows to cut queues on busy days. There are also 2 chairlifts. The ski area is the most extensive in the UK. Beginner areas are easily accessible from the roadside & there are some reasonably steep runs at each extremity of the area. These easterly mountains are less rocky than those of the west so good skiing is possible with a thin layer of snow. However snow-holding is less secure, so extensive fencing is used. There is very limited snow-making. Also situated on a high mountain pass on the east of the Grampian mountains, the Lecht is slightly closer to the city of Aberdeen than Glenshee. It sits on the A939, between Cock Bridge & Tomintoul (the highest village in the Highlands). The road is very steep & exposed, so probably gets blocked by snow more frequently than any other in the UK. The pass is high (635m) & the surrounding hills are not so the vertical drop here is only 210m. Snow-making is more extensive & the beginner areas are right beside the car parks so it is good for beginners. There is even a 'magic carpet' style lift. The restaurant is recently refurbished and the tows are uniformly stacking button lifts. There is also a chairlift. The heathery slopes allow skiing on thin snow but mean fencing is used to hold the snow. It is usually the first ski resort to open for the season (opened 29th October in 2008/9 season). Scotland's newest resort opened in 1989 on the slopes of Aonach Mor. The car park is only 7 miles from the (coastal) town of Fort William & at low level. A Gondola runs to the base of the ski area & a variety of tows fan out across the westerly face of the mountain. The beginner areas are nearby and an unusual 2-way flat chairlift accesses another blue run around the mountain, with better snowholding. There are blue runs at the top of the mountain but the middle section is steeper with red & black runs. There is a chairlift on the other side of the mountain which can provide uplift from excellent steep patrolled & unpatrolled off-piste skiing towards the end of the season. This only opens in excellent conditions as the fuel has to be flown in by helicopter. The mountain is Scotland's 7th highest & the tows go nearly to the top so it has the highest lift (1215m) of any area. The views from here over Carn Mor Dearg to the northern corries of Ben Nevis are fantastic.

Nothing- unless you are a hunter in ski country, military in a snowy area, or participate in the biathlon event. By the way. that is harder than it looks.

Back country skiing is where one hikes to the crest of a hill, and alpines down. A type of skiing similar to back country skiing is telemark skiing. Back country skiing has no synonyms.

The Massanutten Ski Resort is located in Mc Gaheysville, Virginia. You can find more information regarding lodging prices, contact information, and seasonal activities on the official Massanutten Resort website.

As of August 2014, the cost of ski bindings vary depending on the brand and store. The average cost is between $100 and $150.

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She is a very successful Slovak alpine skier who is 23 years old. She has been competing in World Cup events since 2000. She has scored 14 top ten finishes in 90 World Cup events, the best being a second place finish in the slalom at Spindlerun, Czech Republic on January 6, 2008 and a second place at Maribor, Slovenia on January 13, 2008.

I don't know all the places but Dubai has an indoor ski hill

Given the same ability level, same level of equipment, the skier will win virtually every single time. (Insert physics reasoning here). One exception is when two riders of similar ability atempt a run way above their ability level.

Snowboard speed record 125.459mph by Darren Powell (Australia)

Current Skiing Speed record 156 mph by Simone Origone (Italy)

Ski Dubai has 5 runs that vary in difficulty, height and gradient, the longest run being 400 meters with a fall of over 60 meters.

In total, Ski Dubai has 22,500 square metres covered with real snow all year round.

source: http://www.skidxb.com/English/facts_eng.htm?mid=1&sid=2

Liberty Skis was created in 2003.

Smith Optics obvously because they totally own Oakley which is not quality

That's an increadibly hard question to answer picking the 50 largest ski resort but I think the list is more or less complete. The top 20 is most certainly the 20 biggest, in the positions after that there might be some resorts that I missed. There are so many of them in that size...

So here is the 50 (there's actually a draw in the positions around 50 so the list has more than 50 resorts) largest linked (piste or lift) ski areas in the world, their piste length in km and country. For the top 19 is also the number of lifts and transport capacity per hour shown.

1. Les 3 Vallées 600 196 242.000 France

2. Paradiski 425 187 210.000 France

3. Via Lattea 400 78 110.000 Italy & France

4. Sella ronda 330 155 240.000 Italy, which is a part of Dolomiti Superski

5. Les Sybelles 310 71 80.000 France

6. 4 Vallées 300 64 65.000 Switzerland

7. Matterhorn ski paradise 300 58 99.500 Switzerland & Italy

8. Espace Killy 300 94 136.000 France

9. Avoriaz 270, 79, 100.000 France & Switzerland, which is part of Portes du Soleil

10. Skiwelt 263 91 138.000 Austria

11. Alpe d´Huez 250 81 102.600 France

12. Serre Chevalier 250 68 71.000 France

13. Silvretta Arena 226 41 83.065 Austria & Switzerland

14. Megève 225 63 38.000 (without Combloux part) France

15. Le Grand Massif 220 63 75.000 France

16. Grand Valira 205 66 100.700 Andorra

17. Les Deux Alpes 203 54 66.000 France

18. Saalbach 200 55 75.000 Austria

19. Serfaus/Fiss/Ladis 196 40 87.250 Austria

20. Espace Diamant 185 France

21. Risoul/Vars 185 France

22. Val d'Allos 180 France

23. Hochfuegen/Hochzillertal 181 Austria

24. Laax 177 Switzerland

25. Espace San Bernardo 160 France & Italy

26. Lenzerheide 155 Switzerland

27. Silvretta Montafon 152 Austria

28. Valmorel 150 France

29. Valloire/Valmeinier 150 France

30. Morzine 150 (without the Avoriaz part) France

31. Zillertal arena 150 Austria

32. Madonna di Campiglio 150 Italy

33. Whistler-Blackcomb 150 Canada

34. Sölden 146 Austria

35. Mayrhofen 140 Austria

36. Kitzbühel 140 Austria

37. Davos/Klosters 140 Switzerland

38. Crans-Montana 140 Switzerland

39. Auron 135 France

40. La Clusaz 130 France

41. St Anton 130 Austria

42. Mondolé 130 Italy

43. Monterosa ski 130 Italy

44. Val Cenis 125 France

45. Espace Villard-Corrençon 125 France

46. Les Contamines 120 France

47. Isola2000 120 France

48. Obersaxen/Mundaun 120 Switzerland

49. Corvatsch 116 Switzerland

50. Schladming 110 Austria

51. Nassfeld 110 Austria

52. Obergurgl/Hochgurgl 110 Austria

53. Grossglockner resort 110 Austria

54. Lech/Zürs 110 Austria

55. Kleine Scheidegg 110 Switzerland

Ski routes are not included in the table above. If these are included are the piste lengths: 4 Vallées 370 (including the ski route connected La Tzoumaz sector), Matterhorn ski paradise 350, Skiwelt 279, Silvretta arena 238, Serfaus/Fiss/Ladis 204, Hochfuegen/Hochzillertal 188, Laax 220, Sölden 148, Kitzbühel 160, Davos/Klosters 150 and Schladming 117.

For some of these are the "standard" lift pass comprising a bigger area. This list shows the largest (or in some cases several) piste or lift interconnected parts of each ski resort. For most of these are the piste lengths only given for several systems together. In those cases are the piste lengths given calculated from the total piste lengths making them good estimates rather than exact measures. This is true for Sella ronda, 4 Vallées, Matterhorn ski paradise, Avoriaz, Megève, Le Grand Massif, Val d'Allos, Morzine, Zillertal arena, Mayrhofen, Kitzbühel, Davos/Klosters, St. Anton, Schladming and Lech/Zürs.

There is also a number of resorts where the "standard" lift pass give you access to a piste length fitting into this list, but they are actually divided into 2 or more separate systems where each subsystem is too small to fit into the list. Examples of this is Chamonix, Cortina, Zell am See/Kaprun, Gasteinertal and Salzburger Sportwelt.

One more problem associated with making a list of the 50 largest ski resort is that it's very hard to come across piste length data for northamerican resorts. Whistler-Blackcomb does certainly hit the top 50 list and perhaps also Vail. I've tried to figure out the piste lenght for Whistler Blackcomb in several ways:

1. I've gone through the Blackcomb piste map, piste by piste, and compared the piste with the length of the lift beside it and recalculated for the whole resorts giving 160 km.

2. If you take the average of the ratios between the piste length and the number of lifts for the 18 largest resorts and multiply it with the number of lifts at Whistler-Blackcomb you get a piste length of 137 km.

4. The data for Whistler-Blackcomb (area, vertical, no of lifts and transport capacity) is almost identical to Espace San Bernardo with it's 150 km of piste.

Concluding from this Whistler-Blackcomb is estimated to 150 km and by just comparing the Whistler-Blackcomb area with the Vail area, Vail would then be 100 km of piste and not hitting the top 50-list.

An even harder question is the Japanese resorts. The largest linked resort is Mt Naeba which do have 47 lifts (quite a number of systems with fewer lifts are in the list) but the area is much smaller than for example Whistler-Blackcomb so I doubt that it will hit the list. I have not been able to find sufficient information (at least in non-Japanese) to make even a rough estimate of the piste length.

Of course a country comparison would be nice after seeing the list. It looks like this:

1. France 22,5

2. Austria 15,5

3. Switzerland 9,5

4. Italy 5,5

5. Andorra 1

6. Canada 1

Noteworthy is that Andorra beats all countries in the world except the "big four". The Grand Valira system actually extends from Pas de la Casa at the French border in the east to Encamp which is situated in the middle of the country!

If you have read this far, here comes a bonus with some additional resorts:

56. Damüls/Mellau/Faschina 109 Austria

57. Kronplatz 109 Italy

58. Saanenmöser/St. Stephan 105 Switzerland

59. Bad Kleinkirchheim 103 Austria

60. Domaine de Tourmalet 100 France

61. Saint Lary 100 France

62. Dévoluy 100 France

63. Orciéres 100 France

64. Les Orres 100 France

65. Obertauern 100 Austria

66. Villars/Gryon/Diablerets 100 Switzerland

67. St. Moritz 100 Switzerland

68. Saas-Fee 100 Switzerland

69. Courmayeur 100 Italy

70. Passo Tonale 100 Italy

71. Vail 100 USA

72. Aletsch Arena 99 Switzerland

73. Torgon 90 Switzerland & France

74. Chamrousse 90 France

75. Le Grand Bornand 90 France

76. Valberg/Beuil 90 France

77. Badgastein 90 Austria

78. Flachau 90 Austria

79. Dienten 90 Austria

80. Stubaier Gletscher 90 Austria

81. Adelboden 90 Switzerland

If I missed some resorts please improve or post me a message.

I doubt there are any statistics available but it is most certainly France.

• Snowboard riders constantly have to sit or exert energy to remain on edge while they are stationary. Unlike skiing, you will not have poles to help you remain upright and standing when you are not moving.
• Snowboarding is a lot easier on the knees compared to skiing. Knee injuries are not as common in snowboarding as they are in skiing. Snowboarding can, however, be a lot more brutal on your wrists so make sure you wear some wrist guards.
• You'll start to develop a deep hatred for flats when you're starting out with the snowboard. Again, you won't have your ski poles to bail you out.
• You will, however, begin to fall in love with deeper and softer snow. Snowboards work nicely in powder and crud while skis are better in bumps and ice.
• Getting up after a fall on a snowboard is a skill in itself but once mastered should prove to be easier and faster than having to put your stuff together again after falling on skis

You can snow ski or water ski, but you are always ON the same thing- skis!

It is called a Basket.

The salt temporarily melts the snow, creating water. The water then refreezes, creating ice. Ice is much firmer, and faster than snow.

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Since its beginning of popularity in the 1960's, only 54 people have died while heli-skiing. Many countries have heli-ski associations, as it is gaining in popularity.