Hectares vs. Km of Piste

funkraum wrote in
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"Edi" wrote:

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My dodgy generalisation is that the US resorts probably have shorter
runs, lower vertical drops but at least do have more of the white
stuff which is always useful if you want to slide down it.


Alps were glaciated. Rockies were not.

I think you'll find they were. Further north, they still are.

Gives different terrain. The
slopes of the Rockies are wider, hence US skiers express surprise at
the number of catwalks in European resorts (which are bulldozed into
the mountain to enable easy transit).

I'm not sure where you're thinking of, but I wonder if some of these aren't
actually roads, or at least forestry tracks. Many of these become pistes in
winter. In other places short sections have been leveled to cross steep
areas, some of which are the sides of U-shaped valleys - certainly the
result of glaciation. Are there no U-shaped valleys in the Rockies?

Jeremy