J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by verbier_ski_bum

I hike in summer, play tennis and do a little wakeboarding since I live 10 min from the Lake. Hope to be fit by end of August since I really want to get up the Mont-Blanc. I grew up by the sea, so beach holidays have zero attraction to me:) Got fed up with sea to the point that I was going to bed wishing it to rain the next day:) Couple weekends somewhere on Cote d'Azure is about as much as I do now and don't feel I am missing out on something.

This is really good news. I think I'll take Monday off to ski some of this forecast powder:)

1 m overning is a lot of snow so avy danger must have been high, if it was windy during the day it's quite understandable they were not in the rush to open the resort.

I've never seen bashers coming out during the day no matter how choppy it may get. This is the whole point of skiing that you get to ski many different conditions during the day, from fresh and slightly icy cordiroy to soft moguls. Plus bashers on slopes will only contribute to hazard.

Ian Wickham wrote:

bandit wrote:

verbier_ski_bum wrote:

Snapzzz wrote:

AllyG wrote:The 10th FIS rule is that following an accident everyone involved including witnesses should exchange names and addresses:

http://www.fis-ski.com/uk/insidefis/fisgeneralrules/10fisrules.html

Ally

The FIS rules are guidelines only and not enforceable.

There are not "enforceable" until collision results in injury to one or both parties involved. When I see people skiing too close to me I tell them off and I don't care if they are beginners. Being a beginner doesn't mean someone can ski in his own bubble and disregard safety rules.

When I was stretchered off in VT, the Police attended and I was asked if I wanted to bring a charge of assault against the woman who ran into me and broke my collarbone.

The Skiers Code is printed on most lift maps and usually prominently displayed at lift stations. Purchasing a ticket obliges you to meet the co.'s t&c's. A Court will use the Skier's Code to determine who is at fault as both parties are deemed to know about it.

I will be surprised at the way people ski that any of them know the skier code :evil:

They propably do but they don't take them seriously and sometimes they get rude awakening. I saw last year a scene when a girl about 18 hit a 9-10 year boy and how seriously it got very fast. her parents who tried to turn everything into joke looked clearly shaken when two instructors asked them to leave details and told them when they tried to say something about 50-50 that there can't possible be 50-50 when one person is standing in a lift line and another one skiing and hitting him fron behind. The boy was OK so it ended there, but hopefully those people realised that posters with the code are not there just for decoration. You can ski recklessly as much as you like but once you cause an accident it may be not very different from causing an accident on a road.

Snapzzz wrote:

AllyG wrote:The 10th FIS rule is that following an accident everyone involved including witnesses should exchange names and addresses:

http://www.fis-ski.com/uk/insidefis/fisgeneralrules/10fisrules.html

Ally

The FIS rules are guidelines only and not enforceable.

There are not "enforceable" until collision results in injury to one or both parties involved. When I see people skiing too close to me I tell them off and I don't care if they are beginners. Being a beginner doesn't mean someone can ski in his own bubble and disregard safety rules.

On FIS website you can find 10 FIS rules of behaviour on slopes. You can often see them printed and posted on lift pylons in resorts. Unfortunately people don't always take them seriously. It wasn't possible for you to provide a safe distance between you and a skier above, he had to do it. Luckily no-one got hurt.

Have you skied back of Valluga yet?:)