You are wrong!! The girl bumped into the kid because she was avoiding another skier. Instead of finding the reason his kid was hit, he immediately jumped on the girl and started pounding her. He was dead wrong. There is no excuse for what he did.
So you were there and you know, I guess. I wasn't. Parents have some sense of who is a threat to their kids and who isn't. The father thought the girl was skiing recklessly. Otherwise, given the girl's self-serving scenario and the assumption that the father is some sort of madman, he would have gone after you other skier.
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Last week, on a green slope, a man in his forties came with a few inches of skiing into me. This was Deer Valley on an almost completely empty slope that is nearly as wide as football field.
His excuse: He claimed that he was trying to avoid another skier who had swerved in front of him.
NONSENSE!
Slopes are NOT NOT NOT a highway and do NOT NOT NOT follow traffic rules. The skier in front **always** has the right of way. The skier behind should be prepared ( at **ALL** times) for the forward skier to swerve in front of them. The skier behind must always leave enough room for that possible occurrence and, in fact, should be anticipating it.
This is especially true on a green slope where beginners are often less predictable.
On a scale of 1 to 9, I am rated as an 8.5 skier. Double black ungroomed diamonds is where I spend most of my time. The groomed greens and blues are often just too nutty..but...Yes, even the best of us must use the greens to get back to the car.
The 14 year old should never have been skiing so close to a forward skier that she would need to serve in an uncontrolled manner to avoid hitting him, and, as a result knock over a 4 year old. I hope she permanently has her privileges revoked at Vail resorts as well. Maybe I shouldn't hope for that. She will be more likely to ski Utah where I like to go.
So she hit a 4 yr old to avoid another skier? Reads as though she was skiing out of control in a public area with small children present. I favor action should be taken against the teen, but probably not a fist’o-cuffs by the father, although there are some social benefits ot immediate response to the threat upon his child’s safety by an out of control skier. I suspect he has grounds against the ski slope for not enforcing the rules of out of control skiers on the bunny slopes.