| Champagne and chilled fino sherry both perform this role with aplomb but sometimes it pays to go for something a little off-piste. |
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| During the winter her main activities are off-piste skiing and ski touring. |
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| I'm also keen on off-piste skiing and snowboarding, and I think Norway is very good for that. |
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| Luckily my 16 year old son was scooped up by our friends, and his days were spent in wild, off-piste skiing. |
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| Initially I was just a holiday skier, but after we got our apartment here I took up off-piste skiing and ski-touring very seriously. |
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| You can break a leg on the prepared piste but to go off-piste is often considered foolhardy. |
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| The off-piste revolution in Japan is now unstoppable, and its ski resorts are going to have to learn an entirely new culture to deal with it. |
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| In the United States and Australia, skiing away from designated areas is prohibited, but in France it's normal to ski off-piste and on glaciers. |
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| Any advanced skiers can try their hand on some ungroomed black piste, both off-piste and on the mountain, on the Grande Monets slopes. |
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| While we off-piste skiers are a mobile force, we don't always have the time or energy for long approach marches. |
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| On-piste conditions are almost perfect, and in many places, off-piste routes are skiable for the first time this winter. |
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| It was only when we ventured off-piste that the dishes were less convincing. |
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| On day three, while debating how best to conjure a satisfying lunch solely from superfoods, I had a quick off-piste cheese-and-pickle sandwich. |
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| What stays with me as I get older are the off-piste moments from teachers with a little freedom to be iconoclasts or enthusiasts. |
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| The final panelist confessed that she'd gone way off-piste from the event instructions by nominating three works of fiction. |
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| Some of us were so disappointed we decided to carry on meeting off-piste, at Riverside Books, if they'll have us. |
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| The high street is fine for seasonal sales but shopping off-piste will, more often than not, yield the best of the bargains all year round. |
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| There are over 140 groomed green and blue runs, snow parks, off-piste challenges and wide, flat nursery slopes. |
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| Beginner, expert skier, off-piste introduction, guiding through the ski area. |
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| Naturally, our experienced staff will organize Guides, heliski trips and any necessary off-piste equipment for you. |
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| I was a bit worried, because the only skiable route back down towards La Grave was an off-piste black run. |
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| Wear a helmet and all safety equipment necessary to the practice of off-piste skiing and Speedriding. |
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| It is situated in the enormous Les Trois Vallees ski area which links what is conservatively estimated at 600 kilometres of groomed pistes and off-piste terrain. |
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| A walrus-moustached council official presides over the ceremony in Slovenian, continually drifting off-piste, gesturing and chuckling good-naturedly. |
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| Lighter and less bulky than its predecessor, it is perfectly suited to off-piste and wild area use. |
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| Keen off-piste and heliski enthusiasts note it as a 'must do' destination, as well as those who appreciate local architecture and ambiance. |
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| Seymour and Cypress offer the most off-piste snowshoeing, so remember to buddy up and check avalanche and weather conditions. |
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| This package includes learning the art of climbing with skins, off-piste skiing and mountain navigation with a qualified instructor. |
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| The task was to walk up one of the mountains in the area with our skis on and then go down off-piste. |
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| This year's revelation is that controlling my center of gravity makes a major difference in how nimbly I can ski steeps, moguls and off-piste chunky snow. |
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| Hearing the stories behind their music choices gives us a chance to find their vulnerabilities, and maybe even go a bit off-piste, if they say something unexpected. |
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| On the off-piste portion of the first third, the dust will push the competitors to be cautious. |
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| I will be careful not to go off-piste, as it were, into a debate about electoral reform, because I was trying to put my remarks in the context of what happens in this place. |
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| For all off-piste itineraries, Tarentaise Tours provide to his clients a full safety pack: beacon, shovel and probe. |
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| The lawyer was skiing off-piste in the resort of Verbier in the Alps when he fell some 300 metres after losing his footing and ended up in a snow gully. |
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| The huge adrenalin rush of surfing titanic waves such as this is often compared with other extreme sports such as skydiving and off-piste snowboarding and skiing. |
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| These races require competitors to climb and descend steep, sometimes dodgy off-piste terrain using climbing skins and lightweight alpine-touring skis, boots, and bindings. |
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| For novice or experienced off-piste skiers who are ready to discover new territory, couloirs, steeps, powder and bumps! |
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| High mountain alpinism, bobsleigh, hunting dangerous animals, aerial sports, skeleton, caving and off-piste skiing. |
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| An off-piste descent in powder snow will always be the ultimate experience in winter sports, regardless whether on skis or snowboard. |
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| If you are beginner in off-piste skiing or snowboarding, Skieo has intro courses that you can take before launching into untracked powder. |
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| Hiring a guide is a great way to get introduced to off-piste skiing, as they will be able to help you navigate where's safe to go. |
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| Another sign, this time yellow, lists the many reasons why skiing off-piste will be done at my own risk. |
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| Carefully detailed mapping identifies hidden off-piste lines and even include information on steepness, length and difficulty. |
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| Traditional off-piste, guideless boarding can often involve an amount of macho foolhardiness. |
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| The cablecar culminates at 3950m where the off-piste skiing and ski touring possibilities are endless. |
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| Each time I tried to push myself just a little bit further: off-piste one year, heli-skiing the next, glacier-skiing the year after that. |
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| Les 2 Alpes has made a speciality of educational off-piste security. |
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| Once this technical knowledge and theory is validated by your instructors, you will be able to express yourself through speed riding on this vast area of off-piste in the resort! |
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| There is everything from awe-inspiring black pistes and highly challenging off-piste slopes to an abundance of easy skiing for children and beginners. |
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| We accompany them on off-piste descents, which are very closely supervised as we're in a high mountain environment with all the dangers that that holds. |
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| To complete the legendary Chamonix-Zermatt route in six days you'll need to be an experienced off-piste skier and in excellent physical condition. |
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| It is possible to share the day between children and adults, whatever their abilities, and to mix up piste skiing, off-piste, beginners and advanced level ! |
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| Off-piste skiing in a group, Verbier Join us for amasing powder and off-piste skiing days every Tuesday and Friday in the region of Verbier 4 Vallees. |
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| Powder hounds won't be disappointed either as there are excellent off-piste skiing and mogul runs, but it's wise to ask for a guide if you take the uncharted option. |
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| Local newspaper Le Dauphine Libere said the boy appears to have gone off-piste before falling at least 160 feet from a rocky outcrop. |
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| During your time off-piste, you'll discover the mountain in a way you've never seen: mountain goats, ibexes, birds of prey, and a vastness of great horizons! |
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| It is thought he left the marked slopes and wandered off-piste looking for his family at the French ski resort on the last day of the season at Flaine on Friday. |
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| Five skiers were killed in avalanches in the French Alps yesterday, buried under snowslides as they skied off-piste, police said. |
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| A BRITISH off-piste skier has been killed in an avalanche in the French Alps, French officials said. |
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| James Ryan, 37, was skiing off-piste in Val di Rhemes with a group of friends and a guide when he was caught in the tumbling snow on Sunday. |
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| Vallnord is building a reputation as a playground for off-piste terrain, with heli-skiing available too. |
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| Snow-melting south winds and rain below 2,400m have marred much of the fantastic early-season base and created off-piste avalanche risk. |
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| Skieo can offer you dozens of single descents off-piste in various ski resorts, suited to your level, from forest to tight couloirs, selected carefully by our instructors. |
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| Take skiers' right for the Vista Express, with its web of blues and greens, or skiers' left for Cascades and Heather Canyon, a choice of off-piste steeps into the valleys off Shooting Star Ridge. |
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| Those in search of something different can try their hand at paragliding, dog sledding or off-piste heli-skiing accompanied by an experienced mountain guide. |
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| The 1500 metre hight off-piste slopes of the Aiguille Rouge des Arcs are classic faces that literaly dwarf the skiers and snowboarders that descend them. |
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| The program includes a helicopter flight and an off-piste descent with an experienced Alpine Guide who will choise the best descent according to snow conditions. |
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| In fact, the sport is allowed anywhere off-piste in local ski resorts, so you will need to be able to control your skis on ungroomed snow and to be comfortable with putting your skis back on in deep powder. |
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| The local Lombarde has blasted upper slopes, occasionally closed lifts and deposited windslab, potentially dangerous to off-piste skiers, on lee slopes. |
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