Making an alpine resort in relief with the Ski and Trails Map preset

Open the Ski and Trails Map preset. It loads on Chamonix at zoom ~12.6 in a square (1:1) frame - a resort window where the wooded valley slopes rise into bare rock and glacier ice, with the pistes and trails threading down the mountain. When you move it, look for places with strong relief and visible runs: an alpine or mountain resort at zoom 12-13 keeps the forest, the contoured slopes and the trail network all in frame. The contour stack is tuned to Chamonix elevations, so check the preview and retune the bands for your mountain (see Step 2).

Top to bottom:

• Trails and pistes - paths and ski runs (roadsPath) drawn as bold red lines, #D7263D at width 2, sitting on top of everything. These are the headline of the piece - the runs you skied and the trails you hiked. Recolour or thin them if the network gets busy.
• Ice - glacier ice (landcoverIce) filled near-white #EAF4F7, the high frozen ground above the treeline. It reads as bright caps on the summits; push it cooler toward blue-white for a colder feel.
• Forest - forest (landcoverForest) filled deep green #3E6F47, covering the lower slopes below the treeline. It grounds the base of the mountain; the bare contoured slopes show wherever the forest stops.
• Topography - an all-bands elevation contour stack that builds the mountain relief, each band a plate stepping up the slope. If your resort sits at a different altitude, shift the band values to bracket your terrain so the steps land on real slope. Empty bands should be deleted.
• Water - meltwater (water) #6FA8C9 with invert as holes, so streams and tarns are cut through the stack down to the backplate. If a band looks flat or missing, the water is just sparse at that zoom - pan to include a larger lake or reservoir.
• Backplate - solid slate #2B3A42, the dark floor the whole mountain sits on.

The Topography contours default to stacked plates, but each band (or the whole group, via Edit) has a Score export type alongside Fill and Solid line - switch to Score to engrave the contour lines flat instead of cutting plates, for a lower-relief slope under the forest and trails. For a dedicated single-sheet engraved version, see the Topo Score Lines preset.

• Laser: per-layer SVG ZIP. Run small-polygon cleanup - alpine relief plus forest and ice produces slivers. Keep the inversion toggle on so the meltwater exports as holes rather than blobs, and keep the trails as their own pass to lay over the top.
• UV print: high-res PNG (4096 px) for a flat full-colour alpine poster - forest green, slate rock, white ice and red pistes read like a resort trail map.

• Strong candidates: any alpine resort - Zermatt, Whistler, Aspen, St Anton, Verbier, Niseko. Pick a zoom that keeps the runs and the treeline both in frame.
• Retune the Topography bands to your mountain's altitude so the steps land on real slope rather than flat ground.
• Recolour the pistes by difficulty: green, blue, red and black runs as separate trail layers for a proper resort map read.
• Cut the Ice layer from frosted acrylic and the Forest from green-tinted acrylic for a glowing, materials-led mountain.
• Mark a favourite summit or the lift you always take with a heart icon.
• Frame it as square wall art, or cut to the outline and add a snap clip for a keepsake of the trip.
• Turn the forest off for a bare, glaciated high-alpine look that leans on the contours and ice.