...damages. For example, according to www.leagle.com, “Peterson was an eleven-year old boy who indicated during depositions taken in February 2006 that he was an experienced skier. Peterson stated that he had been skiing since the age of two, that his whole family skied, that he had been part of a ski racing team for four years, and even that he had raced the morning of the accident.”1 All of these facts indicate that Peterson was an experienced skier and knew the risks involved. Furthermore, www.leagle.com also states that Peterson “…was also uphill of Donahue and in control of his skiing at the time of the accident.”2 Still, according to Court Listener, “Peterson argued that Minnesota law has not recognized primary assumption of the risk between skiers. However, other cases support the inference that recognition of primary assumption of the risk between skiers would be consistent with the law. Such cases include, Manns v. Afton Alps, which affirmed summary judgment on the grounds that ski patrol volunteer riding on a snowmobile had primarily assumed risk of collision with a snowboarder and, Cooper v. Powder Ridge Ski Corp., in which a jury found that a skier who fell while skiing over unusual terrain had primarily assumed the risk of falling inherent in skiing.”2 Courts have applied primary assumption of risk in these cases, as well as the risk to actions between sporting participants. For this...
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...Snowboarding has been developing in prominence since the 1920s when the "board" was simply riden on a board of wood. As Julian Voje says, "Jack" Burchett had decreased a board of wood out, and appended with clotheslines and steed reins. Not until after 30 years did the following model occur. An alternate man named Sherman Poppen had made something many refer to as "The Snurfer"; it was initially composed as a toy blessing for his girl. It was two skis held together by rope and a rope to settle the rider when on it. Around 1966, the "Snurfer" began to wind up made. After huge names in this game and skiing like Jake Burton got it together of this, it got to be immense. Before long, Dimitrije Milovich began on the snowboard making in 1969 (Voje). The snowboarding, the new winter sport, flare-up got to be enormous. Following the time when Jack Burchett, Sherman Poppen, Jake Burton, and Dimitrije presented this new game, its gotten to be extremely well known among youngsters and youngsters. In the course of recent years, snowboarding and the gear have made it far. It has come the distance from Sherman Poppen's back yard thought for his girl. As per "http://helium.com", Jake Burton and Tom Sims still think of approaches to better their blasting innovation. They additionally are enhancing their supplies like boots to fit better in the ties to ride better, and goggles to make an acceptable perspective while not misting up. About whether, the "new" don has moved to parts of the world,...
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...GOLD MOUNTAIN SKI RESORT You work for a venture firm and have been asked to analyze a proposal from a group of investors interested in building a new ski area in Colorado. The demand for skiing is growing and existing resorts have raised prices and reported record profits for the last two seasons. Gold Mountain’s business strategy is to offer the ultimate ski experience; short lift lines, uncongested ski slopes, and spectacular scenery. With a 2,500 foot vertical drop, 10 trails, and one triple (three person) ski lift, it can provide a very uncongested ski resort. The planned triple-person lift delivers a chair every 20 seconds, 180 chairs per hour (3 chairs per minute, 60 minutes per hour), or 540 skiers per hour (180 chairs per hour, 3 skiers per chair). This puts an average of only 54 skiers per hour on each of the 10 trails. Some trails will be more popular than others, but this average number of skiers per trail per hour is still below the industry average. The cost to build the ski runs, parking lots, and buildings and to erect the chair lift is $52M. To raise this amount of capital requires an annual financing cost (debt service & dividends) of $8.3M. The annual fixed operating cost (land lease, utilities, labor, taxes, and insurance) of the ski resort is projected to be $4.1M. For each 100 skiers per day, additional employees must be hired to staff the ticket office, ski patrol, parking lots, etc. The daily cost of the additional labor is $200 per 100 skiers per day...
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...snowy winter day are the exhilarating sports of snow skiing and snowboarding. Racing down a gentle or steep slippery mountainside, preferably on a sunny day after a heavy snow, is exciting on skis or a board. Some of the best slopes are in the breath taking Colorado Mountains or California’s beautiful Sierra Nevada Mountains. Snowboarding and skiing are both fun and exciting hobbies to get involved with and it’s a great way to spend a weekend in the mountains. Regretfully, as with any challenging sport, there are also risk and dangers such as crashing into people or trees, or simply falling down and breaking a leg or an arm. Skiers and snowboarders need to be considerate of others while either speeding or falling their way down a mountainside. Lessons are strongly recommended, even if someone has already conquered them. With skiing, you have the basics that you need to learn. For example, staying upright is a good accomplishment to achieve. Keeping your balance is another step to include, but most importantly do not cross your skis when stopping, also known as snowplowing. In both sports professional instructors teach successful methods to put on the equipment, get of the ski lift, fall, get up, slow down and stop for both skiing and snowboarding. Refreshing while challenging and exhausting, snow skiing and snowboarding are Reeves 2 popular...
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...Power of Snowboarding When I first started I thought I wouldn’t be any good and I’d end up quitting. I thought that it would be something I’d do and end up hating it, but little did I know that feeling would change for the better. I snowboarded a little bit when I was like 7 but I never got hooked on it, I guess I was too little to understand the joy. My whole family snowboarded. There would be these trips we’d take to Sunday River. It would be like three or four cars every time. My uncle was especially good. He was the one who persuaded me into snowboarding again, so when I was 12 I decided to try it again. So I started in this program where I was supposed to do lessons for an hour and then free ride for another hour. But I thought I knew what I was doing. So I skipped lessons, and by the end of the night I had fallen so many times I couldn’t sit down the next day. So I ended up continuing that year but actually went to my lessons. I started to get the hang of it. So when the next winter came I decided to try it again, and I was doing good. Then the second time I went, I crashed really bad and broke my forearm and my wrist. I thought for sure I was done. But with help of family and friends I got back up the next year and I was doing the best I had ever done. I continued to improve but still wasn’t all that great. Then, my uncle who inspired me to snowboard and improve every single time I was on the mountain was killed in an accident at work. Snowboarding was huge in my...
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...The cold chill of mountain air cut my lungs and caused my tiny body to shiver against the bindings that laced my feet into a pair of awkward skis. If they stood on their ends, they were almost my height; the dimensions causing me to flounder across the peak. However, as far as the rest of my family knew, I was an expert. We had gone skiing for the first time up in Breckenridge for the past few days, and I was determined to separate myself as far from the bunny hill as I could. I had mastered the “pizza pie” angle to allow myself to stop and how to create the “S” grooves in the snow required to master my skis and bend them to my will. My aunt and sister waited for me near the ski lift as I twisted my torso towards them and began to shuffle my way across the slick snow....
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...Liam first saw skiing on television when he was six years old. When he was watching I could tell that he instantly fell in love with the sport. Liam would always sit on the couch staring at the TV was just mesmerized by all of the flips and tricks the athletes would perform. It has been five years since he first started watching the sport and he still loves it. Today is November 5, 2017 and Liam is doing a presentation of his favorite sport at school, he has been preparing for weeks and he never stops talking about it. We walked out to our old car, and threw his backpack in the backseat and drove to school. “I think we should at least try and book a ski trip.” “Why? We can’t afford it, and you know it. We need to have priorities and...
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...1. Introduction As winter approaches, I get fascinated by the idea of snow. I can still recall the first time I ever saw snow and snowflakes. I especially found snowflakes’ unique shapes and structures absolutely magnificent and beautiful. Therefore, I found myself naturally drawn to explore more about snowflakes, when I had to chose a topic for my mathematical exploration. The aim of the investigation is to find the patterns of a snowflake and try to make a mathematical sense out of it. In addition, I wanted to explore how to easily calculate the area of a complicated shape as snowflake. As I began to research how exactly I can approach the question, I encountered fractal geometry, which seemed to explain and address my question. Hence, by using a fractal, Von Koch Island, I have tried to make a “mathematical sense” out of snowflakes by exploring its complicatedness compared to the ordinary geometry and dimension and also by calculating the perimeters and areas. 2. What is fractal geometry? The term “fractal” is derived from the Latin adjective fractus, and verb frangere, which means “broken” or “to break”, respectively. Fractal geometry was developed in the 1970s by a mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot (1924 – 2010). Properties of fractals include self-similarity and non-integer dimension. In other words, fractals are the repetition of non-Euclidean geometry patterns. 3. Problems with Euclidean Geometry: Fractal geometry is an alternative to Euclidean geometry as “uniform...
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...Our company Spyder is an American Colorado-based manufacturer of high-end skiing apparel. Our competitors Patagonia carries necessary gear for climbing, snowboarding, skiing, surfing, flyfishing and trailrunning. Northface carries all apparel for trailing, running, hiking, snowboarding and climbing. What we all have in common is that we all make apparel for customers who enjoy outdoor recreational activities and fitness. We believe that what sets us apart from our competitors is our ability to carry out higher quality products. Our jackets are of the best quality because they are intended for skiing which is an extreme sport taken place in cold climates. Spyder was founded in 1978, North face; 1968 and Patagonia; 1973. Though we were the last company to be founded we are the only company to specialize entirely on ski products alone. North face didn’t begin creating apparel for skiing/snowboarding until 1980 and Patagonia started their brand off of their love for climbing we started ours on our love of skiing. We are the world’s largest ski specialty brand and we are partnered with the U.S Ski team with many professional athletes using our apparel such as two-time Olympian and world cup gold medalist Steven Nyman and Olympian gold medalist Julia Mancuso. We understand what our consumers want, we offer a limited lifetime warranty on all of our outerwear gear as opposed to our competitors. We pride ourselves on our collaboration with the Children...
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...Colby Breault English 110 3/4/16 Early Bird Skis the Best Deal Where would you like to ski? Take a moment and actually think to yourself. If you had the choice to ski anywhere you wanted, where would you go? Most people would take the easy way out and choose their home mountain, a place where they have gone on countless family vacations before. Why not try something new and ski Colorado! With over 30 officially listed ski resorts and over 35, and counting, off the grid ski areas for great skiers of all abilities. It’s a perfect place for the entire family! The ad presents a mountain that stands alone on a dark background with five clouds. As you slowly traverse up the mountain, it transforms from a green landscape with snow splashed over it to a snow-white paradise. The four clouds that are closest to the ground are all of the same type, Cumulonimbus. The other cloud located on the ad, placed slightly above the Cumulonimbus clouds, is known as a cirrus cloud. This subliminally lets the viewer know the mountains in Colorado are huge and tower up into the clouds along with showing the abundance of snow they have out there. The ad was created to reach out to potential skiers and boarders to show them all the amazing amenities/mountains that they would have the ability to ski on. At first glance, maybe you thought this was a poor mountain with limited trails, but when you look at the trail names you realize there is more to it. Included in the ad are only a handful...
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...you frequent the slopes, you understand why keeping your body in good physical condition is important. However, you can’t always get atop the mountain to ski or snowboard. What type of activities can help boost your fitness for these two strenuous sports? Of course, you can walk or jog. However, peddling bicycles can be an even better way to shape up for the slopes. Here are a few reasons why visiting a bike shop is an excellent way to improve your skiing or snowboarding skills. Endurance & Stamina Riding bicycles, especially long-distance riding, has outstanding cardiovascular benefit. By improving your cardio, you will enhance your stamina and endurance for skiing and...
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...Evaluative Criteria: Candidates for equipment options will be evaluated using the following criteria: Cost Customization and Adaptability Options Required Level of Operator Assistance Durability Lead Time / Availability Skier’s Physical Abilities Performance Quality Safety Features The purpose of this Proposal is to seek your approval of the research project on the topic you have requested. In the following pages we will explore in greater detail your reasons for the study, the methods and schedule to be used,my qualifications as the preparer of this proposal, and a proposed budget for the study. Project Procedures Significance of Problem You have been participating in the adaptive skiing program through Outdoors For All since January, 2008. During that time you have utilized the equipment provided by Outdoors For All, namely consisting of the Bi-Unique model of bi-ski and a pair of outrigger skis that are attached to each of your arms. As the equipment provided by Outdoors For All is utilized by several different skiers with different needs, abilities, and physical characteristics, individual users are often required to make compromises in order to use the equipment. You have expressed frustration at the amount of setup time required to re-adapt the equipment each week to fit you and your specific abilities. This includes Readjustment of the skis fore-aft position Readjustment of safety straps in the seating system and the leg retention system ...
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...Taylor Dobbins Dr. Hallet Communications April 1st, 2014 How to Pick Out Snowboarding Equipment Purpose: To Inform Thesis: http://www.stopsportsinjuries.org/, it can actually unsafe and detrimental to a snowboarders progress to use the improper equipment when snowboarding. When shopping for gear to start snowboarding there is a lot of options and choices, based on preferences and needs, and it is extremely beneficial to the consumer to be educated on which equipment suits them best, also according to Introduction: A. Attention getter: Snowboarding is an awesome sport to get into but there is a right and a wrong way to choose equipment B. Credibility statement: All too often I see people snowboarding with gear they have bought based on no prior research or experience and it can be detrimental to a riders progress and/or enjoyment c. Thesis Statement: It can be beneficial to any individual interested in snowboarding to be educated on which equipment they need to fit their personal riding circumstances d. Preview of main points: 1. First I will discuss how to choose suitable soft goods for conditions and locations 2. Second I will discuss which board setups are best for your riding style 3. Third I am going to elaborate on essential accessories Transition: It is important to choose soft goods(Jackets, Pants, gloves, layers) that are comfortable A. Main point #1: Choosing clothing is all about staying comfortable, dry, and warm 1. In order to stay dry people...
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...and revenues. The global strategy was to create small branches with limited liability with SSI workers and locals in each resort, infrastructure needed would be either purchased or leased and SSI software license would be included for 3 years. Their strategy allowed resorts to increase safety, conviviality and improve the ski experience, still they needed to innovate constantly to maintain their competitive advantage. The Potential The success in the industry depended on several factors, the seasonality of the industry evidenced that the SSI product needed to adapt to several conditions in the markets. The increase of ski and snow boarding lessons demand in the US between 2003 and 2004 and the popularity of extreme sports and Telemark Skiing showed a promising international market. Competition was tough but the small independent companies strength was their constant innovation. SSI’s competitive advantage in Australia was the uniqueness of their product in applications and services. In...
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...This knowledge-based approach allows a company to adapt to industry fluctuations due to changing preferences and market trends. The ski industry is not immune to withstanding fluctuations within the market. As Vice President of Marketing for Steamboat Ski & Resort Corporation (SSRC) it is our responsibility to develop and implement marketing strategies that are aligned with the company’s mission statement of being ‘the best ski resort in the world’. Recent statistics indicate that our share of the Colorado skier market has decreased by 3%, and only 4% of our current visitors are international. It is quite evident that the task at hand is to strategically position SSRC in the competitive market place as a resort which not only offers a great skiing experience, but also one which promotes a friendly, family-oriented environment with international appeal. The methods used for this objective are achieved by aligning the resorts strategic resources (i.e. mountain range, ‘champagne powder’, ski school) with a balanced marketing mix that compliments our segment profiles and SSRC’s overall quality standards. In creating a structured analytical framework, several perceptual maps and statistics were assessed. This process allowed us to determine that we would use pricing strategies as a differentiator. However, we would not be competing solely on price. Instead, we would compliment this strategy by leveraging our existing strengths such as our established reputation and customer base. With...
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