Everything You Need To Know About A Ski Hill
If you’re going on a ski trip you will more than likely be going to a ski hill to do so. The ski hill is a beautiful location that you really get to experience why snowboarding is an experience of a lifetime. Here are the basic components of a ski hill.
The Base
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This is the lowest part of the hill and acts as the main hub. All skiers come from the base and leave from the base. It will usually offer food options. Expensive, but they are perfect for when you’re starving after skiing.
The Ski Lift
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The scariest part of snowboarding for any beginner. This thing is intimidating and you will be nervous the whole way leading up. Luckily it is never as hard to get on. Getting off is another story. The lift is what takes you to parts of the hill that provide routes to get back down. The views from the lift are breath-taking, which sucks since you’re already on a mountain.
Routes
The routes are premade paths that lead back to the base. They have colors to represent the level of challenge. Green is the easiest and made for beginners, blue offers a challenge for the experienced, and blacks which are either physically testing or extremely impossible. Of course, there are the double black diamonds that offer pure bliss once you finally get back to the base.
I hope you enjoyed learning about ski hills and how they work. Make sure to return next Thursday for more insight.
I appreciate you going over the basics again this week! Too many beginners run into issues that you are helping them to avoid, kudos. It is funny though when a beginner wants to go on the short black trail lol.
I have never actually gone snowboarding on big hills like this. But it looks like a lot of fun! This blog post is very informative and helpful for beginners.
I really appreciate the run down for the types of routes. I haven’t been snowboarding in years, so it is nice to be refreshed.
Great post! You went over the basics really well and it makes me want to go snowboarding more often. Would be cool to see where you recommend snowboarding.