off-piste

Off-piste skiing.

off-peest´

Off-piste refers to being off an established ski run and skiing, instead, on a slope that’s unmarked, unsupervised, and unmaintained. In regular English, this is called skiing the ‘backcountry.’

Gretchen wanted to stay close to the resort, on the groomed and supervised trails, but I wanted to go off-piste.