alta_gal83
Ski Diva Extraordinaire
This article was on our local news this morning about Park City and Deer Valley considering implementing a "Reckless Skiing" law that would result in a misdemeanor if you are caught skiing recklessly.
https://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=2461698
My problem is this: I am a good skier. I can carve fast and remain in control. I had never once had a ski patroller stop me -- until I skied The Canyons out of the blue last year (I actually ski with patrollers!). I believe I was targeted because I definitely did not fall into the typical clientele of The Canyons. I was not sitting on my behind in the middle of the hill and I was making fast carving, in control turns. I was even going slower than I normally would because I wasn't on a mountain that I was familiar with. However, I listened to the patrol, told him that I would slow down and he left me alone. Now, if this law were to be passed, I have a feeling that I would have been given a misdemeanor ticket that day -- of which, my "fast skiing" didn't equate.
A "Reckless Skiing" law will take a lot of enjoyment out of the sport if you are constantly worrying that you are going to get "pulled over" and it doesn't belong on a mountain that can police itself. Really, I think it is sufficient for patrol to enforce extremely reckless skiing by pulling tickets. If the law were to be passed, I can forsee the ambulance chasing attorneys becoming sue happy over skiing collisions -- like the one involving the 8-year-old versus the 60-something adult male. Ridiculous. Skiing/Snowboarding involves risk. It even says so on the pass. Read it. Learn it. Live it.
Taken from a CO court case:
"Skiing is a dangerous sport. Ordinary understanding tells us so, and the legislature has recognized that dangers inhere in the sport. . . . Not all dangers that may be encountered on the ski slopes, however are inherent and integral to the sport, and this determination cannot always be made as a matter of law."
https://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=2461698
My problem is this: I am a good skier. I can carve fast and remain in control. I had never once had a ski patroller stop me -- until I skied The Canyons out of the blue last year (I actually ski with patrollers!). I believe I was targeted because I definitely did not fall into the typical clientele of The Canyons. I was not sitting on my behind in the middle of the hill and I was making fast carving, in control turns. I was even going slower than I normally would because I wasn't on a mountain that I was familiar with. However, I listened to the patrol, told him that I would slow down and he left me alone. Now, if this law were to be passed, I have a feeling that I would have been given a misdemeanor ticket that day -- of which, my "fast skiing" didn't equate.
A "Reckless Skiing" law will take a lot of enjoyment out of the sport if you are constantly worrying that you are going to get "pulled over" and it doesn't belong on a mountain that can police itself. Really, I think it is sufficient for patrol to enforce extremely reckless skiing by pulling tickets. If the law were to be passed, I can forsee the ambulance chasing attorneys becoming sue happy over skiing collisions -- like the one involving the 8-year-old versus the 60-something adult male. Ridiculous. Skiing/Snowboarding involves risk. It even says so on the pass. Read it. Learn it. Live it.
Taken from a CO court case:
"Skiing is a dangerous sport. Ordinary understanding tells us so, and the legislature has recognized that dangers inhere in the sport. . . . Not all dangers that may be encountered on the ski slopes, however are inherent and integral to the sport, and this determination cannot always be made as a matter of law."
???
). It was a wide open corn-snow cruiser. I had only been skiing 4 years at the time. I got clocked at 41. 
