The sun is shining on Alpine pistes and resorts are relying on artificial snow cannons to keep slopes open. |
There, though, I couldn't help but notice the bowls, pistes and terrain parks. |
Here you'll find excellent cross-country and downhill skiing facilities on wonderfully uncrowded pistes. |
Witnesses saw an avalanche start as a skier left the pistes and traversed the slope. |
In Italy, anger over collisions between skiers and boarders even led to the creation of separate pistes for the two sports. |
Freed from the confines of ski tows and pistes, they travel to where snow cover is deepest and the hills most deserted. |