piste• Phil Judd, of Ski Tech Systems, pulled off the deal which involved supplying enough matting to lay a 200mpiste.• Information abounds - pistemaps are dispensed beside liftqueues, weatherforecasts are posted everywhere and broadcast incessantly.• The map showed Reggane to be off the main piste.• Your friends told us to follow the piste and we'd be sure to meet you head on.• So, that's why I will not be heading for the piste this year.• With the pistes almost empty, it was a skier's dream.• It usually meansclattering over ice and rocks down a three-foot-wide piste, in gale-force winds and horizontalrain.