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- From: grant@clarinet.com (Grant Robinson)
- Subject: New rating system (was Re: Double Black Diamonds at Mammoth)
- Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp.
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 19:20:06 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.192006.8452@clarinet.com>
- References: <1992Nov20.063959.23171@leland.Stanford.EDU> <By0sss.EsB@srgenprp.sr.hp.com>
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- In article <By0sss.EsB@srgenprp.sr.hp.com> glenb@sr.hp.com (Glen Baker) writes:
- ><sigh> Double blacks. End of an era.
-
- Agreed. While the original idea was not bad, they've become predominantly
- a marketing tool.
-
- I prefer areas that have gates and signs warning "experts only," tends to
- give people more pause, but unfortunately, more and more skiers have had
- their opinions of their abilities raised by having been able to get down
- some cheesey double-black diamond of the marketing ploy variety.
-
- Here's an interesting question: How could you change the rating system,
- such that skiers of lesser ability would have adequate warning of more
- difficult runs, without making the more difficult runs an enticement to the
- more-testosterone-than-brains type skiers?
-
- Or is it even possible, after all, all you'd be changing is the names, not
- the runs themselves. What you need to change is people's perceptions of
- what it means to have skied a given run.
-
- How about this:
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- Current New System
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- Green Manly beginner run (womanly beginners?)
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- Blue You're cool now run
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- Black For ballet instructors only
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- Double-black For sissy experts
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- Grant Robinson -- ClariNet Communications Corp, Sunnyvale, CA (408)-296-0366
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