(A) Skill assessment. Each skier solely has the responsibility for knowing the range of such person’s own ability to negotiate any ski slope or trail and to ski within the limits of such ability.
(B) Control; right-of-way; liability. Each skier has the duty to maintain control of such speed and course at all times when skiing and to maintain a proper lookout so as to be able to avoid other skiers and objects. However, the primary duty shall be on the person skiing downhill to avoid collision with any person or objects below him or her. It is presumed, unless shown to the contrary by a preponderance of the evidence, that the responsibility for collisions by skiers with any person, natural object or human-made structure that is marked is solely that of the skier or skiers involved and not that of the ski area operator.
(C) Obedience to signs. No skier shall ski on a ski slope or trail that has been posted as “Closed”.
(D) Avoid obstacles. Each skier shall stay clear of snow-grooming equipment, all vehicles, lift towers, signs and any other equipment on the ski slopes and trails.
(E) Individual responsibility. Each skier has the duty to heed all posted information and other warnings and to refrain from acting in a manner which may cause or contribute to the injury of the skier or others. Each skier shall be presumed to have seen and understood all information posted in accordance with this chapter near base area lifts, on the passenger tramways and on such ski slopes or trails as such person is skiing. Under conditions of decreased visibility, the duty is on the skier to locate and ascertain the meaning of all signs posted.
(F) Equipment provision. Each ski, snowboard or telemarking ski used by a skier while skiing shall be equipped with a strap or other device capable of stopping the ski or snowboard should the ski or snowboard become unattached from the skier.
(G) Safety. Before beginning to ski from a stationary position or before entering a ski slope or trail from the side, the skier shall have the duty of avoiding moving skiers already on the ski slope or trail.
(H) Impaired ability. No person shall move uphill on any passenger tramway or use any ski slope or trail while such person’s ability to do so is impaired by the consumption of alcohol or by the use of any “controlled substance”, as defined in C.R.S. §12-22-303(7), or other drug or while such person is under the influence of alcohol or any “controlled substance”, as defined in C.R.S. § 12-22-303(7), or other drug.
(I) Report collision; provide information. No skier involved in a collision with another skier or person in which an injury results shall leave the vicinity of the collision before giving his or her name and current address to an employee of the ski area operator except for the purpose of securing aid for a person injured in the collision; in which event the person so leaving the scene of the collision shall give his or her name and current address as required by this subsection (I) after securing such aid.
(J) Trespass. No person shall knowingly enter upon public or private lands from an adjoining ski area when such land has been closed by its owner and so posted by the owner or by the ski area operator.
(Ord. 3(1990) § 1)