Skiing Etiquette

Trencher wrote:
There's always an exception to a general rule. Doesn't change the reality that if you run into someone who was below you on a run or track, the responsibility will likely be yours.

Trencher

that's alright then, if it won't be your fault then it's perfectly ok to throw yourself into the path of another skier, if no one can make me be careful then it'll be just fine not to bother :lol:

ise wrote:

Trencher wrote:
There's always an exception to a general rule. Doesn't change the reality that if you run into someone who was below you on a run or track, the responsibility will likely be yours.

Trencher

that's alright then, if it won't be your fault then it's perfectly ok to throw yourself into the path of another skier, if no one can make me be careful then it'll be just fine not to bother :lol:

Do you think people really do that :roll:

Trencher

My point about blue slopes is simple, where are you more likely to find inexperienced skiers, on a blue or a black slope. If you go on a blue slope don't expect everyone on that slope to be an expert, some people on that slope will be on their first ski holiday, will be nervous and not know the slope. By the very nature of the grading system green and blue slopes are more likely to be full of beginners and you need to be aware of that, maybe i did'nt make my point clear they are not solely for beginners but by there very nature are the only ones that the beginners can ski on. Would you rather the beginners went down the reds and blacks on their asses very slowly and blocked up those slopes, I am sure all the "experts" would soon start moaning if that happened.
It is just all about respect, for people of all levels and abilities, I respect the better skiers by not veering across the slope, or stopping abruptly in front of them i.e falling, and they can respect me by not passing on both sides, spraying me with snow or cutting in front of me at high speed.
Then everyone can enjoy themselves
On button lifts, I have seen so many boarders fall off these it is unbelievable, as a skier I don't mind them but the boarders seem to have terrible problems with them.

Trencher wrote:

ise wrote:

Trencher wrote:
There's always an exception to a general rule. Doesn't change the reality that if you run into someone who was below you on a run or track, the responsibility will likely be yours.

Trencher

that's alright then, if it won't be your fault then it's perfectly ok to throw yourself into the path of another skier, if no one can make me be careful then it'll be just fine not to bother :lol:

Do you think people really do that :roll:

Trencher

I think, and FIS agree, that everyone has a primary responsibility to respect other slope users and that responsibility is entirely independent of if you're up or down the slope.

I think you've no real point and are just being argumentative.

ise wrote:

I think you've no real point and are just being argumentative.

and I think you have a problem with anyone who disagrees with you. You called someone else's post utter nonsense after you read it the wrong way and didn't think to apologise. Your pompous remarks are very sad because you obviously have a lot to contribute to the community, but don't know how to do it and still be respectful to others.

Trencher

I think what you really need is some general etiquette :roll:

and fyi here's what I didn't misread :

Remember, the blues are actually there for the learners to learn on so don't be surprised if you go on a blue slope you find some people who are bit nervous and a bit slow, especially if they don't know the piste and are not sure where the turns are

you just decided it meant something else to start an argument :roll:

AllyG wrote:Kevin,
I don't like those really narrow blue 'roads' either, and they tend to get quite icy.

Sometimes the red runs lead into these, and the good skiers can't help ski-ing down them, and it can be very difficult safely overtaking wobbly, erratic, learners. If your teacher has whizzed past them, you have no option but to overtake, or hold up the whole lesson. I usually say, in French and English, that I wish to overtake and which side, and then I go past, but I'm always a bit worried that the learners are going to suddenly swerve into me. I used to go down them in a snow plough, and keep to the side so that other people could overtake, but I suppose if you're boarding you don't have that option (I don't know anything about boarding).

Ally

Ally if someone whizzed past my kids on a particular narrow section just because they were skiing slower than them i would not be best pleased.
Experience should tell you that patience is a vertue and anything other than would probably end up with a pole being planted where the sun dont shine by MOI.


AJ Adele

AJ Adele

a welcome does of common sense, well done!

a thread that started about good manners and assisting others in need seems to have evolved in to a rant by some the experts about the less experienced having the temerity to be on their slopes and in their way! :roll:

Shazzo