How to draw usable trails with the right difficulty

Follow these steps

1. Choose the descent with overlays first

   Turn on terrain difficulty and contour lines. Look for a downhill route from your chosen upper station to the base, including a manageable lower section. Consider which skill group needs this run. Colour conventions can differ: official options include Alpine and French & Nordic styles, so use your current legend rather than assuming the video’s blue/red colours match every setting.

2. Draw between the actual hubs

   Open Trails → Regular. Place the start in the top hub, add points down the slope and finish in the destination hub. Watch the preview and any unusable-trail explanation. When both ends sit in hubs the confirm check becomes available; Enter can confirm. Avoid routing a trail so flat or uphill that it cannot provide the descent you intend.

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3. Match the selected rating to the terrain

   Choose the rating in the trail editor. The game does not automatically replace the rating you selected when trees or terrain make the actual run harder. In Part 1, the author later finds a blue-labelled run crossing red terrain and changes its rating after too-hard complaints. Recheck the whole run, especially a steep middle section hidden by a gentle finish.

4. Set width and check the clearing bill

   Use the trail width controls for the selected point, or resize the whole trail with no point selected. The current point-resize hint is LMB + Scroll; scrolling alone zooms. Inspect the quoted tree clearing before confirming. Wider runs and a route through dense forest can cost more, so narrow or reroute the plan if it consumes the money needed for operations.

5. Offer terrain people can actually reach and want

   Read guest skill and complaints at the hub served by this lift. Add a suitable easier or harder descent where the missing group can reach it. Maintain some variety in snow experience as well: Part 2 deliberately leaves a red run ungroomed after a no-ungroomed-trails complaint. This is a demand response, not a rule to leave every run ungroomed.

6. Confirm and inspect a real descent

   Confirm the trail, clear the quoted trees where appropriate and advance time with usable snow and a staffed lift. Follow a skier leaving the upper hub, taking the intended run and reaching its lower connection. Reopen Edit if a fault remains; official notes put the reason for an unusable trail there.

What success looks like

The trail confirms between its hubs, has no unexplained unusable warning, and a skier with a suitable skill level can take it to the intended lower area. Its label and actual terrain no longer contradict each other.

If it does not work

If confirmation stays unavailable, recheck both endpoints and the preview’s reason before adding random points. If guests say the run is too hard, inspect steep sections and dense trees as well as the chosen label. If a current terrain complaint names a base or hub, investigate that location rather than repainting an unrelated run across the map.