As used in this article 44, unless the context
otherwise requires:
(1)Base area lift means any passenger tramway which skiers ordinarily use
without first using some other passenger tramway.
(2)Competitor means a skier actually engaged in competition, a special
event, or training or practicing for competition or a special event on any portion of
the area made available by the ski area operator.
(3)Conditions of ordinary visibility means daylight and, where applicable,
nighttime in nonprecipitating weather.
(3.1) Extreme terrain means any place within the ski area boundary that
contains cliffs with a minimum twenty-foot rise over a fifteen-foot run, and slopes
with a minimum fifty-degree average pitch over a one-hundred-foot run.
(3.3) Freestyle terrain includes, but is not l
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As used in this article 44, unless the context
otherwise requires:
(1) Base area lift means any passenger tramway which skiers ordinarily use
without first using some other passenger tramway.
(2) Competitor means a skier actually engaged in competition, a special
event, or training or practicing for competition or a special event on any portion of
the area made available by the ski area operator.
(3) Conditions of ordinary visibility means daylight and, where applicable,
nighttime in nonprecipitating weather.
(3.1) Extreme terrain means any place within the ski area boundary that
contains cliffs with a minimum twenty-foot rise over a fifteen-foot run, and slopes
with a minimum fifty-degree average pitch over a one-hundred-foot run.
(3.3) Freestyle terrain includes, but is not limited to, terrain parks and
terrain park features such as jumps, rails, fun boxes, and all other constructed and
natural features, half-pipes, quarter-pipes, and freestyle-bump terrain.
(3.5) Inherent dangers and risks of skiing means those dangers or
conditions that are part of the sport of skiing, including changing weather
conditions; snow conditions as they exist or may change, such as ice, hard pack,
powder, packed powder, wind pack, corn, crust, slush, cut-up snow, and machine-made snow; surface or subsurface conditions such as bare spots, forest growth,
rocks, stumps, streambeds, cliffs, extreme terrain, and trees, or other natural
objects, and collisions with such natural objects; impact with lift towers, signs,
posts, fences or enclosures, hydrants, water pipes, or other man-made structures
and their components; variations in steepness or terrain, whether natural or as a
result of slope design, snowmaking or grooming operations, including but not
limited to roads, freestyle terrain, jumps, and catwalks or other terrain
modifications; collisions with other skiers; and the failure of skiers to ski within their
own abilities. The term inherent dangers and risks of skiing does not include the
negligence of a ski area operator as set forth in section 33-44-104 (2). Nothing in
this section shall be construed to limit the liability of the ski area operator for injury
caused by the use or operation of ski lifts.
(4) Passenger means any person who is lawfully using any passenger
tramway.
(5) Passenger tramway means a device as defined in section 12-150-103
(5).
(6) Ski area means all ski slopes or trails and all other places within the ski
area boundary, marked in accordance with section 33-44-107 (6), under the control
of a ski area operator and administered as a single enterprise within this state.
(7) Ski area operator means an area operator as defined in section 12-150-103 (1) and any person, partnership, corporation, or other commercial entity
having operational responsibility for any ski areas, including an agency of this state
or a political subdivision thereof.
(8) Skier means any person using a ski area for the purpose of skiing, which
includes, without limitation, sliding downhill or jumping on snow or ice on skis, a
toboggan, a sled, a tube, a snowbike, a snowboard, or any other device; or for the
purpose of using any of the facilities of the ski area, including but not limited to ski
slopes and trails.
(9) Ski slopes or trails means all ski slopes or trails and adjoining skiable
terrain, including all their edges and features, and those areas designated by the
ski area operator to be used by skiers for any of the purposes enumerated in
subsection (8) of this section. Such designation shall be set forth on trail maps, if
provided, and designated by signs indicating to the skiing public the intent that
such areas be used by skiers for the purpose of skiing. Nothing in this subsection (9)
or in subsection (8) of this section, however, shall imply that ski slopes or trails may
not be restricted for use by persons using skis only or for use by persons using any
other device described in subsection (8) of this section.