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Alpine Responsibility Code: time for an update?
1. Know your ability and always stay out of the way of people who are better
than you. It is your responsibility to stay out of their way on the ground and in the air. 2. If you don't have natural ability, take lessons from qualified professional instructors to learn and progress. 3. As you proceed downhill or overtake another person, you must avoid the people below and beside you unless you call out to them to move, or if their turn radius or speed changes in any way. 4. Do not stop where you obstruct a trail or run, or are not visible from above unless you receive a phone call. It is your responsibility to answer all calls immediately. You may also obstruct a trail or run if there is a large group of you and you want to stop to have a chat or to sit down. 5. When entering a trail or run or starting downhill, look uphill and give way to others except when jumping or when you are entering on your heel side. 6. Always use chairlift restraining devices and always use proper devices to prevent runaway equipment except when they're a hassle and using them takes up valuable riding time. Ensure your equipment is recognisable when you have to look for it when it slides to the bottom of the run. 7. Observe and obey all signs and warnings except slow signs. If you aren't any good, keep off closed trails or runs and out of closed areas. 8. When first using any lift try to see how may times you fall off before you work out how to load, ride and unload safely. 9. If you are involved in, or witness an accident, alert Ski Patrol, remain at the scene and identify yourself to the Ski Patrol, unless the person you hit failed to move out of your way when you called out from behind or did something unexpected like turning. Anyone got any more? |
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Here is another one I recently experienced -
6A. If you find yourself on too difficult a slope - stop, sit in the middle of the only line with snow. Take off your snowboard and throw it down ahead of you. Have your friends sit next to you and do the same. Extra points for hitting the skier who cut through where you and your friends were sitting. My solution was to pick up their snowboards and when they saw that I had them - yell they could pick them up from ski patrol when they explained how their snowboards had 'runaway' ;-) I don't know how long it took them to get down and to ski patrol. I hope it was the end of the day. "ant" wrote in message ... 1. Know your ability and always stay out of the way of people who are better than you. It is your responsibility to stay out of their way on the ground and in the air. 2. If you don't have natural ability, take lessons from qualified professional instructors to learn and progress. 3. As you proceed downhill or overtake another person, you must avoid the people below and beside you unless you call out to them to move, or if their turn radius or speed changes in any way. 4. Do not stop where you obstruct a trail or run, or are not visible from above unless you receive a phone call. It is your responsibility to answer all calls immediately. You may also obstruct a trail or run if there is a large group of you and you want to stop to have a chat or to sit down. 5. When entering a trail or run or starting downhill, look uphill and give way to others except when jumping or when you are entering on your heel side. 6. Always use chairlift restraining devices and always use proper devices to prevent runaway equipment except when they're a hassle and using them takes up valuable riding time. Ensure your equipment is recognisable when you have to look for it when it slides to the bottom of the run. 7. Observe and obey all signs and warnings except slow signs. If you aren't any good, keep off closed trails or runs and out of closed areas. 8. When first using any lift try to see how may times you fall off before you work out how to load, ride and unload safely. 9. If you are involved in, or witness an accident, alert Ski Patrol, remain at the scene and identify yourself to the Ski Patrol, unless the person you hit failed to move out of your way when you called out from behind or did something unexpected like turning. Anyone got any more? |
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"KentB" wrote Here is another one I recently experienced - 6A. If you find yourself on too difficult a slope - stop, sit in the middle of the only line with snow. Take off your snowboard and throw it down ahead of you. Have your friends sit next to you and do the same. Extra points for hitting the skier who cut through where you and your friends were sitting. I had a good one today: 7c. If it's your first day on snow, go to the top and flail and fall your way down. When (not if) you hit people, declare "It's my first time on a board, OKAY?" and that'll fix everything, including hitting children. ant |
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KentB wrote:
Here is another one I recently experienced - 6A. If you find yourself on too difficult a slope - stop, sit in the middle of the only line with snow. Take off your snowboard and throw it down ahead of you. Have your friends sit next to you and do the same. Extra points for hitting the skier who cut through where you and your friends were sitting. My solution was to pick up their snowboards and when they saw that I had them - yell they could pick them up from ski patrol when they explained how their snowboards had 'runaway' ;-) I don't know how long it took them to get down and to ski patrol. I hope it was the end of the day. If you really did this, the BRAVO!!! I usually just spray them with snow... |
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don't keep the volume too loud on your ipod ?
"ant" wrote in message ... 1. Know your ability and always stay out of the way of people who are better than you. It is your responsibility to stay out of their way on the ground and in the air. 2. If you don't have natural ability, take lessons from qualified professional instructors to learn and progress. 3. As you proceed downhill or overtake another person, you must avoid the people below and beside you unless you call out to them to move, or if their turn radius or speed changes in any way. 4. Do not stop where you obstruct a trail or run, or are not visible from above unless you receive a phone call. It is your responsibility to answer all calls immediately. You may also obstruct a trail or run if there is a large group of you and you want to stop to have a chat or to sit down. 5. When entering a trail or run or starting downhill, look uphill and give way to others except when jumping or when you are entering on your heel side. 6. Always use chairlift restraining devices and always use proper devices to prevent runaway equipment except when they're a hassle and using them takes up valuable riding time. Ensure your equipment is recognisable when you have to look for it when it slides to the bottom of the run. 7. Observe and obey all signs and warnings except slow signs. If you aren't any good, keep off closed trails or runs and out of closed areas. 8. When first using any lift try to see how may times you fall off before you work out how to load, ride and unload safely. 9. If you are involved in, or witness an accident, alert Ski Patrol, remain at the scene and identify yourself to the Ski Patrol, unless the person you hit failed to move out of your way when you called out from behind or did something unexpected like turning. Anyone got any more? |
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"ant" wrote in message ... 1. Know your ability and always stay out of the way of people who are better than you. It is your responsibility to stay out of their way on the ground and in the air. 2. If you don't have natural ability, take lessons from qualified professional instructors to learn and progress. 3. As you proceed downhill or overtake another person, you must avoid the people below and beside you unless you call out to them to move, or if their turn radius or speed changes in any way. 4. Do not stop where you obstruct a trail or run, or are not visible from above unless you receive a phone call. It is your responsibility to answer all calls immediately. You may also obstruct a trail or run if there is a large group of you and you want to stop to have a chat or to sit down. 5. When entering a trail or run or starting downhill, look uphill and give way to others except when jumping or when you are entering on your heel side. 6. Always use chairlift restraining devices and always use proper devices to prevent runaway equipment except when they're a hassle and using them takes up valuable riding time. Ensure your equipment is recognisable when you have to look for it when it slides to the bottom of the run. 7. Observe and obey all signs and warnings except slow signs. If you aren't any good, keep off closed trails or runs and out of closed areas. 8. When first using any lift try to see how may times you fall off before you work out how to load, ride and unload safely. 9. If you are involved in, or witness an accident, alert Ski Patrol, remain at the scene and identify yourself to the Ski Patrol, unless the person you hit failed to move out of your way when you called out from behind or did something unexpected like turning. Anyone got any more? Warn your fellow lift riders before you smack them in the head with the safety bar. |
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Bob Lee wrote:
This is all way too complicated. How about..."defer to telemarkers in all matters and locations, and buy them beer. I'm thinking...yes, I like it. Seconded. Maybe one more... leave your GF in the competent hands of the teleheads while you go look for the goods. -klaus |
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Sven Golly wrote:
Bob Lee wrote in news:rlee-13154C.20141521022005 @individual.net: This is all way too complicated. How about..."defer to telemarkers in all matters and locations, and buy them beer. That's "defile telemarkers in all matters and locations, and steal their beer." Oh wait, they don't usually have beer. So ignore the last part. Bull****. They always have beer.. it just happens to be someone else's. -klaus |
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Sven Golly wrote:
klaus wrote in news:cvg70e$avl$3 @news.xmission.com: Bull****. They always have beer.. it just happens to be someone else's. So then it's steal "the" beer they happen to have temporary custody thereof and wherefor. It is impossible to "own" beer. You can only rent it for a while. |
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