Guides to skiing on piste

Short, checkable answers to the questions that come up on a ski area: what the piste colours actually mean, how to read a piste map, how to keep a group together, and what to do when a piste closes or an accident happens.

Ski piste difficulty levels: green, blue, red and black
In France, pistes are graded in four colours: green (very easy), blue (easy), red (difficult) and black (very difficult). The colour is assigned by the ski area operator, relative to its own terrain — there is no legal gradient threshold that defines a colour.

Guides to skiing on piste

Ski piste difficulty levels: green, blue, red and black