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...green square indicates that a particular trail is the easiest in that area, eliminating the use of the word novice or beginner which might mislead the uninitiated skier. A gold triangle means a more difficult trail. A blue circle signals the most difficult trail...
Actually, snow blindess is not blindness and isn't caused by snow. Correctly called solar photophthalmia, it is sunburn of the sun's ultraviolet rays off the glistening snow or ice. While generally affecting the unprepared skier, snow blindness is not unknown among mountain climbers, the Eskimos, and even polar bears...
Quality sunglasses or dark goggles are the best safeguards against snow blindness for the skier planning any length of time in the sun. Darker or neutral gray lenses with a light transmission averaging 20 per cent will screen the potentially-harmful untraviolet rays. For safety sake, these lenses should be of shatter-resistant safety glass or plastic. Tinted eyewear of ordinary glass offer an additional hazard to the eyes of a skier who falls or grazes a tree limb on a downhill...
...answer depends, first of all, on how good a skier you are. The old adage that one must crawl before walking applies particularly to the new skier, for there are few activities that make more physical demands and require better conditioning than alpine skiing...
...skier's first step should therefore be a few skiing lessons on local slopes to learn the fundamentals of balance and form, as well as to learn the basic exercises that will get rubbery ankles and unused joints in the proper form for 30 miles per hour downhill runs...