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- From: patch@sequent.com (Pat Chewning)
- Newsgroups: rec.skiing
- Subject: Re: Helmets (again): Skiing Safety
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.214701.89@sequent.com>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 21:47:01 GMT
- Article-I.D.: sequent.1993Jan27.214701.89
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- mikeg@olympus.East.Sun.COM writes:
- >When you change lanes do you look before merging over.
- >
- >Same principle when skiing.
-
- Some principles are NOT the same when skiing as they are with driving.
-
- Example : Changing lanes
- Skiing: No need to look uphill (back) before changing direction.
- It is up to the people behind you (uphill) to avoid you regardless
- of how much you change speed or direction.
- Driving: you better look behind before changing direction.
-
-
- >It's those idiots that just pull up and stop anywhere, or traverse without
- >looking to see who is coming. Hell, if you look at least
- >you can see the person about to hit you and can ah.... aim your poles correctly
-
- STARTING a traverse from a stop without looking uphill is a
- no-no. Traversing the hill to control your speed, or to change your
- skiing line does not require you to look uphill to avoid other
- skiiers.
-
- The rules of skiing generally allow you to do whatever turns,
- stops, traverses, etc possible without checking uphill, you "own" the whole
- hill above you and none of it below you.
- The rules of skiing ONLY require you to check uphill when starting out, or
- when merging with another trail.
-