Ski too fast, go to Jail, Utah resorts

[stuckathuntermtn]

I'm sure all the patrollers would love to have to take time off to go to court as a witness. Stupid Utah.

[Pablo Escobar]

Does this mean I need to buy another radar detector?

no, it means that we don't ski at DV or PC for fear of going to jail on the wrong side of the wasatch.

[Thrill Hammer]

The best skiers in the world can lose an edge, have a momentary lapse. If that happens when you're blasting through a slow-speed zone at warp speed, using the beginners as slalom poles, you're probably going to hurt someone, maybe kill them. Even if you don't give a rat's ass about the person you hurt, keep in mind that your life is probably fucked for good. And, since you've also no doubt screwed it up bigtime for the rest of us, what with restrictions, rules, higher lift prices, etc -- well, there's gonna be some serious shit coming your way when we catch you.

Wow someone in here sounds like a real jerkoff

hint: it's you

[Johnny Deep]

no, it means that we don't ski at DV or PC for fear of going to jail on the wrong side of the wasatch.

Good point. I believe the speed limit there is all residential.

[DasBlunt]

The article being cited by that link is from 2008. Nice job.

it says 2010...please provide further truth Truth.

[Rubicon]

If they made one experts only fenced off high speed route back to the lift, most experts would take that route rather than weaving in an out of the cluckers.
[/end rant]

Any high speed run to the lifts is going to take away from the beginners area which most resorts wouldn't go for.

Would be nice though.

Too bad we can't rearrange the mountains

[DasBlunt]

Yeah, Loveland screwed up and added a learning area off of lift 2. cluster fuck now coming down off 4.

[truth]

it says 2010...please provide further truth Truth.

http://www.articlesbase.com/travel-a...me-397517.html

[Johnny Deep]

But does time really change anything in Utah?

[haydukelives]

sure some go WAY TOO FAST, but 30kph....or 18mph.....is coasting on a bike on a slight downhill. that is ridiculous

[haydukelives]

Does this mean I need to buy another radar detector?

did you mean a radar jammer?

[Johnny Deep]

did you mean a radar jammer?

Or maybe one the does both, orders your beer and calls your girl friend just in time for dinner?

[Hicks]

Good thing they enforce that kind of bullshit stateside only ...... makes me happy in the pants about skiing elsewhere.

[Roo]

exactly what i was thinking.. it's fucking skiing. it's inherently a high risk activity.

Yeah! Boycott Salomon!

[Ghost]

I'm all in favour of keeping speeds down in beginner areas.
Unfortunately I think this is the thin end of the wedge. One day all the runs will be speed controlled. Fucking Mommywannabes!

And don't give me that a reckless skiing law would be any better.

I don't have any confidence in a "ski patrollers" ability to judge my skiing as to its recklessness. I can remember about 25 years ago skiing fairly straight down an empty run trying to build up some speed when a red-jacketed patroller jumped out of the bushes ahead of me yelling and waving his arms. Of course, since I WAS skiing in complete control, I slammed on the brakes, stopped right beside him, and asked him what was up? An injured skier that was hurt in the trees and needed help and his radio was broken, but he couldn't leave him? Some other emergency? What? No, nothing like that. He just thought I was skiing out of control. After a discussion, in which he admitted I was in control, but how could he tell? Most people bombing that hill at that speed would have been out of control. He automatically assumed I was out of control only because of my speed, Just like the stupid Ontario Canada "stunt" driving law for 30 mph over the speed limit. I was given to understand that at Jay Peak, you can ski as fast as you like, but you are not allowed to ski in a tuck.

[snoqpass]

I'm not skiing like a fuck head, I'm practicing my homage to Franz Klammer's '76 Olympic DH gold medal run and a crowded beginner run is the best place to practice.

Me=

One of the most awesome runs ever,the Japanese dude that "skied" Everest gets nod for the inventive use of a parachute.

[ectreeskier11]

Yeah! Boycott Salomon!

Yeah because that's like, totally the same thing! STFU.

[Roo]

Yeah because that's like, totally the same thing! STFU.

You're both trying to achieve the same end - namely make skiing safer.

Why bag on someone else's efforts to do the same thing you're doing?

[ectreeskier11]

it's nothing to do with safety in my mind... there's an assumption that something you spend hundreds of dollars on, quoted as being a bomber, stand up product for it's intended use, which dalton was well within, is going to not fail catastrophically. this in no way equates to imposing some arbitrary speed limit on resort slopes. but this should be in the TT thread, so i digress.

[polariso]

I'm not skiing like a fuck head, I'm practicing my homage to Franz Klammer's '76 Olympic DH gold medal run and a crowded beginner run is the best place to practice.

Me=

One of my all time favorite runs to watch..on the f-ing edge the whole way.
Fines...Jail time = abandonment of personal resposibility and has crossed the line. Just pull their damn pass!

[Baddog]

Does this mean I can no longer flash my awesome switch gorilla steeze on a crowded Big Emma?
If so, this is a good idea.

[skifishbum]

Pass pulling and jail time seem a bit harsh
I think they should go this route hell I'd even consider skiing there

[Johnny Deep]

^^^^

Hilarious!

[MMP]

OTOH more reasonable thing to do is institute a ski or snowboard license for folks to be able to ski outside of the learner, slow, and gaper areas. To get out of the baby pool, you got to be able actually swim and tread water.

it would be amazing if i were to come across a stupider idea than this today. got i hope i don't. i cant stand it.

[Ivan Oder]

As a patroller I can tell you this sucks. We're not the cops. If the mountain wants to hire cops to enforce this and all other traffic issues, FINE. Call me if there's an injury, otherwise I don't care.

If anything, knowing that I might have to go testify would make me less likely to want to stop people from skiing fast. It's not worth the hassle.

We want people to feel comfortable in our presence in case they actually need us.