The Colorado Skier Safety Act

Warning Under Colorado law, a skier assumes the risk of any injury to person or property resulting from any of the inherent dangers and risks of skiing and may not recover from any ski area operator for any injury resulting from any of the inherent dangers and risks of skiing including: changing weather conditions; existing and changing snow conditions; bare spots; rocks; stumps; trees; collision with natural objects, man- made objects or other skiers; variations in the terrain; and the failure of the skiers to ski within their own abilities.

Highlights of the act.

THE COLORADO SKI SAFETY ACT

The Ski Safety Act of 1979 became law in Colorado on July 1, 1979. Copies of the Act dealing with your duties and responsibilities as a skier or snowboarder are available for your information at Steamboat Ticket Offices and Ski Patrol stations. Please read this information. Highlights of the Act are listed here:

€ Do not board a lift unless you feel confident that you have sufficient physical dexterity, ability and knowledge to use the lift safely. Please follow the instructions of the lift operators.

€ Do not throw or expel any object from a lift while you are riding on the lift.

€ Your skis must be equipped with a strap or other device capable of stopping your skis if they become unattached while skiing.

€ Each skier solely has the responsibility for knowing the range of his own ability to negotiate any ski slope or trail and to ski within the limits of such ability.

€ It is your responsibility to maintain control of your speed and course at all times and to maintain a proper lookout so as to be able to avoid objects and other skiers. Careless and reckless skiers will have their skiingprivileges revoked.

€ It is unlawful for you to ride a lift or to use any ski slope or trail when your ability to do so is impaired by the consumption of alcohol or any drug.

€ If you are involved in a collision with another skier that results in injury, it is unlawful for you to leave the vicinity of the collision before you have left your name and current address with a member of the Steamboat Ski Patrol.

€ It is unlawful for you to ski on any slope, land or trail that has been posted CLOSED. Closed trails and slopes will be marked. Roped off areas also designate that area as being closed.

€ It is your obligation and responsibility to heed all posted information and other warnings, and refrain from acting in a manner which may cause or contribute to your injury or the injury of any other skier or person. Please read and heed all posted information and warnings.

The Colorado legislature established as a matter of law that certain dangers and risks are inherent in the sport of skiing