Seperated Slopes for boarders in Italy

Hi,

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OK, not everybody can read german, the most importend points:

Italy plans to get new rules on the slope.

- Kids unter 14 years had to wear a helmet.
- seperated slopes for boarders and skiing people

Are they crazy? No more holiday in Italy with my skiing friends :-(

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On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 15:39:19 GMT, Jürgen Schmadlak usenet-q12003
@schmadlak.net allegedly wrote:

Italy plans to get new rules on the slope.

- Kids unter 14 years had to wear a helmet.
- seperated slopes for boarders and skiing people

Are they crazy? No more holiday in Italy with my skiing friends :-(

I can't read German so I can't understand the document.

As far as separate slopes goes, do they mean that there will be one or 2
separate slopes for each... or do they mean that the whole mountain must
be divided into 2, and each group gets one half? What about snow-blades
or snow-bikes? How do they fit in?

It seems ironic that in a country where kids hurtle around on scooters
tearing up the traffic in cities like Milan and Rome, that they would
suddenly mandate the use of helmets for snowsports.

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Switters wrote:

- seperated slopes for boarders and skiing people
As far as separate slopes goes, do they mean that there will be one or 2
separate slopes for each... or do they mean that the whole mountain must
be divided into 2, and each group gets one half? What about snow-blades
or snow-bikes? How do they fit in?

Nobody knows. The new law just says: seperate slopes for borders and
skiiers. I can't believe that it really works.

It seems ironic that in a country where kids hurtle around on scooters
tearing up the traffic in cities like Milan and Rome, that they would
suddenly mandate the use of helmets for snowsports.

They want 30 - 150 Euros if they catch a kid on the slope without a
helmet. AFAIK you can ride a scooter without a helmet.

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Baka Dasai wrote in
news:slrnc0sl6u.4n3.idontreadthis@yahoobb220004112 021.bbtec.net:

On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 18:52:26 +0100, Jürgen Schmadlak said (and I
quote):
Nobody knows. The new law just says: seperate slopes for borders and
skiiers. I can't believe that it really works.

Something similar exists at many resorts in Japan. Some resorts will
be comprised of a mostly "mixed" slopes (both skiers and
snowboarders), with one or two slopes reserved for skiers only.
These skier-only slopes tend to be of two types - expert slopes, and
slopes where there are likely to be families with small children.

In addition, there are many resorts here that don't allow
snowboarding. These are often small resorts that are pitched at
families, and they sometimes have the word "family" in the resort
name.

My impression is that the Japanese image of snowboarding is one of
semi-criminality that is completely incompatible with families.

Ah, that reminds me of 'Fear of a Flat Planet' (probably still one of
the best snowboard films ever) - hiking the hill to poach runs in
Japanese 'no snowboarder' resorts

AC.

Switters wrote in message .. .
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 15:39:19 GMT, Jürgen Schmadlak usenet-q12003
@schmadlak.net allegedly wrote:
I can't read German so I can't understand the document.

babelfish (http://world.altavista.com/) to the rescue:

here's the babelfish result (the first thing I noticed: "drive" should
be "ride"), it's not perfect, but enough to understand context:


Italy
Ski-drive to stricter rules

20. In the future stricter rules prevail to January 2004 on Italian
runways. After on Tuesday an entered into force law the local
authorities must introduce separated departures for ski sportsmen and
Snowboarder for the season in the coming year. Furthermore children
must on carry crash helmets under 14 years from 1 January 2005 with
winter sports. With offences fines threaten.

According to the new law the municipalities are obligated to generally
increase security on the runways in their catchment area. Otherwise
fines up to 200.000 euro could be imposed upon to them. Necessarily
clear regulations for overhauling maneuvers are therefore, the right
of way to crossings and a any throttling of the speed. Concrete speed
defaults are not intended however.

Gelrailwaysussen for driving without Sturzhelm

If children without crash helmets on the runways are found, their
parents with fines between 30 and 150 euro can be sued. 250 to 1,000
euro can be raised, if accidents are not immediately indicated. Local
police and forstbeamte are to supervise the adherence to the new
rules. Ski teachers are demanded at the same time to hand Pistenrowdys
to the authorities over.

The Italian ski federation faces the law rather zwiespaeltig. Ski
teachers fear, the obligation for the monitoring of the runways could
divert her too much from instruction. Federation speaker Claudio
Baldessari explained, intensified controls is meaningful, but could
too many rules ambitionierte ski drivers in the future hold to drive
into the Italian skiing areas.

does that apply from this years january ... I'm going to Italy in febr.

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Switters wrote in message
.. .
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 15:39:19 GMT, Jürgen Schmadlak usenet-q12003
@schmadlak.net allegedly wrote:
I can't read German so I can't understand the document.

babelfish (http://world.altavista.com/) to the rescue:

here's the babelfish result (the first thing I noticed: "drive" should
be "ride"), it's not perfect, but enough to understand context:


Italy
Ski-drive to stricter rules

20. In the future stricter rules prevail to January 2004 on Italian
runways. After on Tuesday an entered into force law the local
authorities must introduce separated departures for ski sportsmen and
Snowboarder for the season in the coming year. Furthermore children
must on carry crash helmets under 14 years from 1 January 2005 with
winter sports. With offences fines threaten.

According to the new law the municipalities are obligated to generally
increase security on the runways in their catchment area. Otherwise
fines up to 200.000 euro could be imposed upon to them. Necessarily
clear regulations for overhauling maneuvers are therefore, the right
of way to crossings and a any throttling of the speed. Concrete speed
defaults are not intended however.

Gelrailwaysussen for driving without Sturzhelm

If children without crash helmets on the runways are found, their
parents with fines between 30 and 150 euro can be sued. 250 to 1,000
euro can be raised, if accidents are not immediately indicated. Local
police and forstbeamte are to supervise the adherence to the new
rules. Ski teachers are demanded at the same time to hand Pistenrowdys
to the authorities over.

The Italian ski federation faces the law rather zwiespaeltig. Ski
teachers fear, the obligation for the monitoring of the runways could
divert her too much from instruction. Federation speaker Claudio
Baldessari explained, intensified controls is meaningful, but could
too many rules ambitionierte ski drivers in the future hold to drive
into the Italian skiing areas.

"Tóth Gábor" wrote:

does that apply from this years january ... I'm going to Italy in febr.

No, it starts in 2005.

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Jürgen Schmadlak