 Poster: A snowHead
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Apologies, not wholly on topic...
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| In one case a claimant (a British national domiciled in the United Kingdom) suffered serious injuries in Jamaica, when he struck his head swimming against a submerged sandbank. He sued a Mr Jackson, who was also domiciled in the United Kingdom, who had let the holiday villa to him... |
Bearing in mind that the extent of my legal knowledge is nil (had an interview for a place on a law course but then remembered I had a conscience  so decided to join the RN instead)... that is the most pathetic thing I have ever, ever heard.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Where theres blame theres a claim 
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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?
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Boredsurfing, ...and where there's not, unfortunately.
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parlor,
you've had lots of good replies (a part from all those "you skied that?" types who have clearly not realised the power of foreshortening and the fact that you would hardly get any speed down that thing without a lot of poling ). By the way, how steep is it?
My feeling is the following:
1. By advertising the service when people book, a lawyer could probably argue that you are receiving payment for guiding albeit a part of a bundled price
2. If you never leave the piste, you are quite unlikely to be shown to be negligent but I would still be alert to the possibility that someone comes a cropper on a black run, hasn't got medical insurance and sues you saying that you didn't take enough account of their lack of skill/fitness etc.
3. Assuming you are not a qualified guide, I think you would be NUTS to ski off-piste with a guest given 1 above
J
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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jedster, Absolutely agreed, all three points. Succinctly put. (You can't be a lawyer. )
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You'll need to Register first of course.
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nope, no lawyer 
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Our host, poor guy, enjoys skiing with us and 2 years ago crossed from one piste to another where we were, missing the fact that there was a stream in between the two, fell in and broke his thumb. No skiing for 6 weeks from mid Jan....
It can cut both ways.
He never says follow me, and we sometimes take it in turns to lead, so in effect we are skiing together rather than him guiding, although we always find something nice and unspoiled to go down.
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parlor,
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I can honestly say that the one or two occasions that I have skied off piste, our of hundreds of other days it was not with groups of guests, it was a single guest who I had already skied with, deemed 'good enough' to ski with me, and then we ski together... at their request.
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I'm not suggesting you were irresponsible at all - I'd be very happy to ski with you. I'm just do think that you are taking a small risk of something really bad happening (in court I mean). Decent, reasonable people will sue in ways which they may even know is unfair if they are desperate (paralysed, etc). In your shoes, I'd want to avoid that possibility, however slim.
By the way - have a great season,
J
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jedster, i think you're being a teensy bit too risk-averse
i actually think parlor is probably more at risk from a guest hurting themselves in or around his chalet. (this is in no way meant to suggest his chalet is a deathtrap )
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Arno, Sauna, jacuzzi, stairs etc... The chalet *could* be a nightmare. Fortunately it is the owners that are ultimately liable.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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I actually think parlor is probably more at risk from a guest hurting themselves in or around his chalet
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Thing is Arno, I'm sure he has liability insurance to cover that. I doubt he's covered for ski-guiding.
just seen parlor's reply - bet the owner is insured against those risks.
J
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