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[quote=Anonymous]The instructor said Gwyneth was making short turns on the right side. I bet she’s a great skier - she learned at Alta in the old school days when you were taught to keep your knees together in a very narrow stance. If she was making short radius turns on one side of the slope, her story is hard to believe. I just did a ski clinic where we practiced short radius turns and our former us national team coach said it would have been hard for even a pro to match her speed and turns and ski between her legs as she described. It could happen on a flat if you aren’t turning and are in a very wide stance or in a wedge.

Based on what the instructor said, I wonder if the optometrist made a turn that took him in front of her. If she wasn’t looking, she would have screamed and then hit him. It would technically be her fault, but on the other hand, he would have avoided the accident by not making wide turns. When my kids were young, I wouldn’t take them on crowded runs unless they were good enough to make short predictable turns on them. Forget whose fault it was, I didn’t want them to get hit.

Even if you try to avoid traffic by skiing down one side, you still have to not only look ahead, but scan the whole slope to make sure you avoid any people (usually little kids) making wide turns.

A second to look up at your kids doesn’t seem like a long time, but if you are traveling an average ski speed, 15 mph, you will cover more than 20 feet in one second.

Stay safe everyone. There was just a terrible sledding accident at Copper mtn and multiple deaths due to collisions with trees, tree wells etc. [/quote]

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