Official Poll: How should Out of Bounds Skiers be punished?

[dmc]

We should all over react!! That's what should be done..

 

[Smellytele]

In Europe you can get rescue insurance. If you want to go out of bounds then get the insurance. If you don't have it you pay the cost plain and simple.

 

[skiNEwhere]

This is slippery slope that isn't simply black and white. Vermont started charging for rescues in the early 2000's but stopped after a while. The reason being that once people realize that they are going to have to pay for their rescue, they are much less inclined to call for help, which increases their risk of injury, frostbite, and/or survival. Even if they are hopelessly lost, they might not call at all

 

[Smellytele]

This is slippery slope that isn't simply black and white. Vermont started charging for rescues in the early 2000's but stopped after a while. The reason being that once people realize that they are going to have to pay for their rescue, they are much less inclined to call for help, which increases their risk of injury, frostbite, and/or survival. Even if they are hopelessly lost, they might not call at all

Stupid is as stupid does. Not that I am a VT tax payer but I would not want to be funding stupid any more than I am.

 

[Newpylong]

Billed the cost of rescue and banned from the mountain.

 

[snowmonster]

Waterboarding

 

[BenedictGomez]

Billed the cost of rescue and banned from the mountain.

Which would be impossible to enforce without checking ID against an electronic database of banned skiers.
Not happening.

Waterboarding

Not harsh enough. You could be waterboarded at 8am and be skiing again by noon. I say every time they require rescue, we take a finger!

 

[Mpdsnowman]

Now to me this is all about education. And I think this would be a good way to "implement" education.

One thing that they should do is IF you have to be rescued...and by rescued I mean Literally searching as opposed to normal ski patrol senarios, then as part of the fine or penalty that you need to take X amount of hours of or a particular BC course which are available...

Of course you would have to pay for it. I think something like that would be very beneficial in the end. To make them go to a class or more if applicable as part of the fine...OR it could even eliminate the fine if you attended...

 

[snowmonster]

Not harsh enough. You could be waterboarded at 8am and be skiing again by noon. I say every time they require rescue, we take a finger!

If they were rescued and waterboarded by 8AM, that would mean they were on a dawn patrol. We all know that only serious skiers who know what they are doing in the backcountry do a dawn patrol. Waterboarding may be to gentle. I suggest public humiliation in stocks and pillory in the town square.

 

[kingslug]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sglyFwTjfDU

 

[skiNEwhere]

Waterboarding may be to gentle. I suggest public humiliation in stocks and pillory in the town square.

With the stocks and pillory paid for by the members rescued