After reading the terrible news about the young girl killed while skiing in France, I noticed a couple of of the news outlets mention speed limits on the pistes.
I googled a bit but don’t see anything recent, indeed mostly [articles from over 10 years ago](https://www.letemps.ch/societe/30-kmh-pistes).
I can’t recall ever seeing a speed advisory at any resort en Suisse or France, have you? So do we have some general advisories here apart from common sense? The FIS rules just mention speed adapted to abilities and conditions.
Makes total sense to be in control at all times and especially on beginner slopes but its obviously difficult to monitor your actual speed all the time.
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What is this communism? Do you want our orthopedic surgeons to starve? We rely on the economic benefit from almost 80,000 ski accidents per year.
These camera stories never go anywhere because just putting up a camera changes diddly squat. You would need to have active management, patrols who can temporarily close entry to pistes when they’re overcrowded, remove people from the pistes for skiing dangerously, etc. But that’s against cultural norms.
So either help out our medical personnel with much needed extra cash, or take up Nordic skiing.
Seriously, kill me already. It is sad one person died, but do you really need to kill the fun for everyone to save a single life per ski season.
If that person had died in a car accident, you would have never heard about it.
There are some risks everywhere. If you don’t want to die, I suggest staying at home and plugging yourself into Zuckerberg’s metaverse.
I think Grindelwald-First has one slope called family slope with a speed limit of 30 I think. (At least they had one when I was there the last time, 2 years ago) But nobody cares and they put a speed cam there where you can see your speed and that’s quite contra productive on a skislope.
And I’m not a fan of speed limits in skiresorts. Actually I probably wouldn’t go to skiresorts anymore which have a speed limit (unless of corse there are to many of them)
How would a skier know his actual speed?
The only rule is to adapt speed to abilities and conditions. Also sometimes you have signs asking you to slow down (at intersections, at the bottom of slopes, when reaching areas where young or inexperienced skiers are) and you must observe them.