Black Diamond Skiing Explained: Skills, Gear and Best Runs

Despite skiing's complicated phrases, slang, and descriptors when it comes to snow and gear, the sport uses a rather simple method for labeling the difficulty of trails.In North America, ski resorts use the following system to identify the difficulty of each slope (trail types are listed in ascending order of difficulty):Green Circle: EasiestBlue Square: Intermediate/More DifficultBlack Diamond Difficult/Most DifficultDouble Black Diamond- Hardest/Extremely DifficultThe term 'blac