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infinitely frustrating collisions....
 Poster: A snowHead
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glasgowcyclops wrote:

I think it is time that behaviour rules are handed out with lift passes now.


A lot of resorts do now ime. Often on the back of the piste map or on the leaflet they give you.
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 Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person

Julieanne, Many thanks for the best wishes – and others who kindly have posted condolences. Your experience sounds equally frustrating; skiing is such a highlight of the year that it's complete pain when someone else mucks up a trip.

I am amazed at the posts which recount antagonists failing to stop to give help and to leave details. Stopping and exchanging details is the law in some nations and in my mind is linked to three things:

1 simple human decency

2 changing bad behaviour to good. Seeing what you've done when you've done wrong is important. And if patrols and regulations lead to an increase of good behaviour then I am all for them.

3 long term issues - by this I am not being alarmist, but I had the following experience two years ago. My son, then 6, was taken out by an older guy skiing way above his reaction capacity (in the same way I was taken out last week). It was a bad shunt - the guy powered into a junction and sent my small one up into the air. His back protector worked wonders and his helmet too. The guy crashed and burned but was about to make off so I confiscated one of his skis while my other half tended to our child. My thought was simple - on this occasion my child was fine - but the impact was severe, and he could have had permanent injury. I didn't want to prosecute the guy for idiocy, but if my child had needed long term or - God forbid - permanent care (and I have friends who are in the position of having a child disabled by accident) then I’d rather he or his insurance company was paying for it rather than me.

I am the last person to ask for a move to an American-style litigious society – but if people create havoc then they should pick up the consequences.
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 Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?

valais2, Totally agree.
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It's not just blokes or Brits.

My (then) 9 year old daughter could easily have been killed by a teenaged Austrian bird on the Kitzsteinhorn near Zell.

We were parked up in the middle of the piste, which sounds bad but i) we'd had to stop for something and ii) it was that hugely, hugely wide blue at the top - I mean rugby pitch width.

This fraulein came bombing through our group at (I'd say) 40mph, knocked my little girl over with her pole and herself ended up in a heap some metres down the slope.

I skied over to her with murder in mind but she was in tears and very shocked herself, so I left it at a few verbals.

She'd been chasing her boyfriend and somehow didn't see us.

Very scary. I still have shuddery waking nightmares about it if I think about what would have happened had she been a foot to the left.
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