| You can break a leg on the prepared piste but to go off-piste is often considered foolhardy. |
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| Do this at any kind of snow, deep, crud, ice, piste, anything, and always have a incredible quick response and a perfect edge holding. |
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| If Federer tried his luck on the piste tomorrow he would probably melt the snow. |
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| We're talking one chair lift, a few drag lifts, a bare piste or three with attendant facilities and equipment hire from The Stone Age. |
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| The group were obviously delighted when they arrived at their destination, Ruka and saw several feet of snow on the piste. |
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| We came here last year for Christmas and you couldn't find a piste to ski there were so many people. |
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| These are confident skis that can take advanced skiers who rarely leave the piste to places they've never seen. |
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| One skier on her first day on the piste did not even make it as far as the ski lift. |
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| The first snow on the gravel piste caused some of the bikers to turn the same colour. |
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| No, really, we've been working hard, beavering away while Jane, who normally occupies this slot, has sloped off on the piste in Les Alps. |
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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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| In the wild there is no piste patrol to pick up the pieces, and the mountains bristle with rocks, cliffs and cornices. |
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| In September, South African sappers began work demining hundreds of kilometers of piste road from the Kenyan border to the rebel-held town of Rumbek. |
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| Up bright and early next day, we discover to our relief that the expert piste groomers have done a wonderful job and practically everything is skiable and do-able. |
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| Lug for track of tracked vehicle, particularly for piste preparing or snow-track making machines. |
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| Begin by sweeping the piste with a broom or mop, and then unbolt and remove the stretch hardware from the corners. |
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| Even when pressed further by the more sceptical boozehounds, he was still adamant he was heading for the snowy pistes of Belgium and that he was not simply piste. |
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| The 25-year-old Scot had never skied the Bormio piste before this week and the Edinburgh-based skier has only had two training runs on the treacherous slope. |
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| His parents looked for him but couldn't see him so they went to the piste patrol and said, 'Our child has disappeared. |
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| It seems as if the boy did the last piste descent of the day on his own after asking his parents' permission. |
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| While the main ski area below has more than 200km of piste, this plateau is relatively tiny at 7sq km. |
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| Advantages: Full of excitement for the thrill seeker, lots of off piste powder for the keen boarder, guaranteed snow throughout the season, limitless piste for the cruising skier. |
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| It was a far cry from the Rominger who had slid so ungracefully down the banking on his first moments on the piste, unable to keep himself upright through sheer lack of momentum. |
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| We have to remind you, that this model is only appropriate for professional skiers that wants to advance their abilities off piste in powder snow. |
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| Get a thrilling insight into the work of our piste groomers. |
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