(1) I finally found my trusty rubber friend amongst kirby grips and tissues, and clumsily put it on, adding buoyantly: “I’m really looking forward to this!” Everything was then going tickety-boo until my rubber friend went off-piste and wedged itself stubbornly somewhere between my cervix and uterus.
(2) "Lean forward," shouts Barnie, as I tentatively point my skis, in a slight snowplough, down the Ariondaz piste.
(3) Several villages, each linked to the piste, makes up Serre Chevalier.
(4) Here are some examples: in Chamonix , Chamois Blanc 7 is a cute little apartment, with modern decor and lots of pine panelling, sleeping four from €600 in February and March, or €500 in April; while in the Tarentaise, 20 minutes from lovely Sainte-Foy , which has nice runs, great hiking into the backcountry and is within a short drive of La Rosière and Les Arcs, La Tillette is a super-stylish modern chalet sleeping eight, with massive windows and white interiors, L'Occitane toiletries and off-piste skiing to the door.
(6) Most accidents (84%) happened on the pistes and ski lifts were involved in about 6% of them.
(7) The setting sun casts shadows over parts of the piste, and it's so quiet that, like on a country walk, when I see another person, we say hello.
(8) The scale, variety and superior grooming of Courchevel's pistes, along with its lift systems and snowmaking, means learners and intermediates have some of the best snow in the Alps.
(9) Ride a Snooc, Le Grand Bornand, France Hiking off into the wilderness and finding peace away from the pistes is one of the most rewarding things to do in the mountains.
(10) We start out in Courchevel Moriond (previously 1650) on the blue runs around Ariondaz, where the wide pistes are in tip-top condition, thanks to a bumper dump of snow a few days earlier.
(11) Chalet La Falaise in Les Carroz , which has 144 pistes in Le Grand Massif , sleeps 10 in four bedrooms, and costs £1,600 for the whole self-catering property for the weeks starting 2 and 9 March.
(12) After a couple of days tearing around this undulating terrain, stopping for coffee and Kuchen in cosy places such as Berghotel Körbersee, where I had to step over a snoozing St Bernard to access the toilet, I ventured further into the backcountry with the Warth ski school , whose range of guided off-piste excursions is more original than any I have seen.
(13) There are loads of wide and gentle slopes, perfect for beginners and improvers, with 43% of the pistes graded blue (easy).
(14) Since the former mayor Eugen Larcher managed to convince authorities to open up the nearby glacier to skiers and hikers in the 1960s, the valley has become an upmarket slow-travel destination: close to nearby skiing pistes but not overrun by tourists, with high-speed broadband and a newly built spa.
(15) Luckily, there’s plenty of that nearby, which was the other reason I was here: to combine mountains and movies, popcorn and pistes.
(16) That will be like giving a medal to a ski instructor for leading his group off-piste down a closed black run and pulling them out alive from the ensuing avalanche.
(17) But BuzzFeed – like the Huffington Post, where Peretti started his digital career – doesn't compete across the piste.
(18) Highlights were when Spencer went a bit off piste from the classic look: an apple green parka, sweater with square motif and boxy suede jacket were welcome bits of modernity.
(19) Walking routes marked are in purple on the piste map, along with the red, blue and black runs.
(20) Once your children are up and skiing, there are themed areas on the mountain that add a touch of magic and story telling, such as the Piste of the Wicked Fairy Godmother in Courchevel Moriond, and the Indians Piste, where children go in search of the Grey Wolf and the Chief of the Indian tribe.
Psst
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) This study was part of a larger study, which included development of a theoretical model for creation of items for the PSST.
(2) Children and families were assigned randomly to 1 of 3 conditions: PSST, PMT, or PSST and PMT combined.
(3) PSST and PSST-P children showed significantly greater reductions in antisocial behavior and overall behavior problems, and greater increases in prosocial behavior than RT children.
(4) This study evaluated the effects of problem-solving skills training (PSST) and parent management training (PMT) on children (N = 97, ages 7-13 years) referred for severe antisocial behavior.
(5) It was predicted that (a) each treatment would improve child functioning (reduce overall deviance and aggressive, antisocial, and delinquent behavior, and increase prosocial competence); and (b) PSST and PMT combined would lead to more marked, pervasive, and durable changes in child functioning and greater changes in parent functioning (parental stress, depression, and overall symptoms).
(6) Children were randomly assigned to one of three treatments: problem-solving skills training (PSST), problem-solving skills training with in vivo practice (PSST-P), which included therapeutically planned activities to extend training to settings outside of treatment, or client-centered relationship therapy (RT).
(7) The purpose of this study was to assess the validity and reliability of an instrument developed by the researchers for evaluation of pressure sores, the Pressure Sore Status Tool (PSST).
(8) PSST and PMT combined led to more marked changes in child and parent functioning and placed a greater proportion of youth within the range of nonclinic (normative) levels of functioning.
(9) Children in both PSST conditions showed significant reductions in deviant behavior and improvements in prosocial behavior from pretreatment to follow-up, whereas RT children tended to remain at their pretreatment level of functioning.
(10) Data were analyzed using a content of validity index (average index for tool = .91) and judges' comments were used to modify two items on the PSST.
(11) PSST-P children showed greater changes than PSST children on measures of functioning at school at posttreatment, but these differences were no longer evident at follow-up.