Cheese
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Since I've read a few rants on here I thought I'd share two stories from this weekend.
The first was on a cat track above a lift line. Basically traffic passes along a roped off area above the lift line, turns left after the rope and circles around into the lift corral below. I was skiing along the left hand side of the cat track. A boarder to my right starts to cut over into my path so I hit the brakes, give him 10' in front of me, match his speed and move right up against the rope to allow us both plenty of room. He ducks, bangs a hard left turn, ducking under the rope and I clip his board sending him spiraling down the closed area. Technically I was the downhill skier, it was an unexpected stunt to duck a rope but a minor collision none the less.
The second was again on a cat track. This time the cat track perpendicularly split a trail that continued down the mountain. Traffic is proceeding across the cat track and looking uphill at skiers/riders that could be coming down the trail. I'm the uphill skier on the cat track following a boarder who is slightly downhill of me traveling along the cat track. In a fairly quick move he cuts uphill making me the downhill skier, then reverses and travels perpendicular to the cat track to hit the lip which forms between the cat track and the lower half of the trail divided by the cat track. So I went from yielding the right away to regaining the right of way only to have him cut me off as I narrowly avoided a collision.
I'm not bashing boarders as a skier could have made either of these moves just as easily. Be careful out there skiers and riders.
The first was on a cat track above a lift line. Basically traffic passes along a roped off area above the lift line, turns left after the rope and circles around into the lift corral below. I was skiing along the left hand side of the cat track. A boarder to my right starts to cut over into my path so I hit the brakes, give him 10' in front of me, match his speed and move right up against the rope to allow us both plenty of room. He ducks, bangs a hard left turn, ducking under the rope and I clip his board sending him spiraling down the closed area. Technically I was the downhill skier, it was an unexpected stunt to duck a rope but a minor collision none the less.
The second was again on a cat track. This time the cat track perpendicularly split a trail that continued down the mountain. Traffic is proceeding across the cat track and looking uphill at skiers/riders that could be coming down the trail. I'm the uphill skier on the cat track following a boarder who is slightly downhill of me traveling along the cat track. In a fairly quick move he cuts uphill making me the downhill skier, then reverses and travels perpendicular to the cat track to hit the lip which forms between the cat track and the lower half of the trail divided by the cat track. So I went from yielding the right away to regaining the right of way only to have him cut me off as I narrowly avoided a collision.
I'm not bashing boarders as a skier could have made either of these moves just as easily. Be careful out there skiers and riders.
