Re: "Bunny hill" symbol, used in America for signaling ski pistes for novices

From: Shervin Afshar <shervinafshar_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 28 May 2015 13:11:12 -0700

Well...to pick the nit, these shapes are rhombi; known colloquially as
"diamonds".

So what's the symbol for "bunny hill" in Europe?

↪ Shervin

On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 1:03 PM, Philippe Verdy <verdy_p_at_wanadoo.fr> wrote:

> Well also these symbols, if you want (these are not really "diamonds"),
> but the wordpress page forgets the "bunny hill". It starts only with the
> green circle (in fact a black disc colored in green) which maps to blue
> pistes in Europe.
>
> 2015-05-28 21:59 GMT+02:00 Shervin Afshar <shervinafshar_at_gmail.com>:
>
>> Single and double diamond?
>>
>> https://bbliss176.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/symbols2_jpg.jpg
>>
>> http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2Rc9ifOGLYg/TO5fF0XNTSI/AAAAAAAAIxE/RJPvVDD6gLM/s1600/caution-double-black-diamond.jpg
>>
>> http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/double-black-diamond-sign-legend-ski-slopes-map-40955860.jpg
>>
>>
>> ↪ Shervin
>>
>> On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 12:46 PM, Philippe Verdy <verdy_p_at_wanadoo.fr>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Is there a symbol that can represent the "Bunny hill" symbol used in
>>> North America and some other American territories with mountains, to
>>> designate the ski pistes open to novice skiers (those pistes are signaled
>>> with green signs in Europe).
>>>
>>> I'm looking for the symbol itself, not the color, or the form of the
>>> sign.
>>>
>>> For example blue pistes in Europe are designed with a green circle in
>>> America, but we have a symbol for the circle; red pistes in Europe are
>>> signaled by a blue square in America, but we have a symbol for the square;
>>> black pistes in Europe are signaled by a black diamond in America, but we
>>> also have such "black" diamond in Unicode.
>>>
>>> But I can't find an equivalent to the American "Bunny hill" signal,
>>> equivalent to green pistes in Europe (this is a problem for webpages
>>> related to skiing: do we have to embed an image ?).
>>>
>>>
>>
>
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