As if to remind you how environmentally unfriendly you are being by skiing here, the pistes are often a pale beige, regularly dusted as they are by fine sand blown in from the nearby Gobi Desert.

• 由于从附近戈壁滩吹来含有细小沙砾的风，这里的雪往往都是米白色的，就像在提醒你在这里滑雪对环境造成的危害。