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From: jans@mako.UUCP (Jan Steinman)
Newsgroups: net.rec.ski
Subject: Re: Getting Serious about SAFETY
Message-ID: <979@mako.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 11-Dec-85 15:58:09 EST
Article-I.D.: mako.979
Posted: Wed Dec 11 15:58:09 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 13-Dec-85 01:56:57 EST
References: <425@tekcbi.UUCP>
Reply-To: jans@mako.UUCP (Jan Steinman)
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Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR
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Summary: 

In article <425@tekcbi.UUCP> jimb@tekcbi.UUCP (Jim Boland) writes:
>It was mentioned that at two of the resorts, if you go beyond the marked
>boundary, you are on your own. (National Forest Land).  If you go into
>an avalanche zone then you are in trouble because you also jeopardize the
>patrol that has to rescue you.

This seems reasonable.  You SHOULD be on your own!  However, stupid,
arbitrary court decisions have held areas liable when idiots ride the lift
and ski out-of-bounds, leading to such idiocy as...

>If you go out of bounds at the third site (Meadows) then you go to jail
>and get fined $500.  (County laws, not resort rules)

I don't think this will hold up in court, since the area in question is not
really in the county's jurisdiction.  (Mt. Hood National Forest and
Wilderness Area)  But this does really put a damper on what I'll call
"legitimate" out-of-bounds skiers -- those three-pinners who buy a single
trip lift ticket in order to access the wilderness.  It is, of course,
perfectly legal to hike up the boudary line and ski down.  What if you
were XC skiing in the wilderness area, accidently crossed some obscure
corner of the ski area, and went back into the wilderness?  Jail time?
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