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Right of Way? Common sense?? Your take on this question wanted.

need more info.if the sledder shoots over top without knowing its slick and goes out of control,its his fault for being a newbie and not knowing snow conditions before getting there and not controling sled.but if the the climber cuts a highmark arch in front of the dropper hes wrong and a tard.if its a trail theres a pretend center line like any road.
 
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Who was on the hill first? THAT guy gets right away.

I know...that's too black and white...but that's they way it would be in a perfect world.

H2, would you clarify your situation....Is this where a guy is coming up a hill and a second guy sitting at the top drops down onto the hill before he sees the guy coming up?

Hmmm, it's probably easier for the lower guy to make a change than the upper guy, even though the first guy on the hill has right of passage.

BUT if the bottom guy turns out in front of the guy coming down...that is a bigger problem. Perhaps someone gets T-boned...then whose at fault for creating the situation? Should the bottom guy keep going and try to get past him...or turn out and create a potential collision.

What if a frog had wings.....;)
 
Scott said:
Who was on the hill first? THAT guy gets right away.

I know...that's too black and white...but that's they way it would be in a perfect world.

H2, would you clarify your situation....Is this where a guy is coming up a hill and a second guy sitting at the top drops down onto the hill before he sees the guy coming up?

Hmmm, it's probably easier for the lower guy to make a change than the upper guy, even though the first guy on the hill has right of passage.

BUT if the bottom guy turns out in front of the guy coming down...that is a bigger problem. Perhaps someone gets T-boned...then whose at fault for creating the situation? Should the bottom guy keep going and try to get past him...or turn out and create a potential collision.

What if a frog had wings.....;)
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I would say its up to the guy going up to determine the safest way to avoid the guy on his way down. But right of way really means nothing, and I love this quote " He was right, dead right as he speed along but he's just as dead as if he'd been wrong"

so in the long run it's both parties responsibility to avoid a collision, but in will be easier for the guy going up to chose a direction.
 
need more info......

did the guy go up then back down? Or was he coming from a higher riding area and dropped down?

If I see no one playing on a hill and start up then all of a sudden someone drops in after I am half way up?

The truth is there are no rules to sledding. If two people find themselves in this situation both riders are responible for doing whatever they can to get out safely and do their best to avoid that situation again.

We should be working together not pissing a line of division in the snow
 
tudizzle said:
need more info......

did the guy go up then back down? Or was he coming from a higher riding area and dropped down?

If I see no one playing on a hill and start up then all of a sudden someone drops in after I am half way up?

The truth is there are no rules to sledding. If two people find themselves in this situation both riders are responible for doing whatever they can to get out safely and do their best to avoid that situation again.

We should be working together not pissing a line of division in the snow
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Agreed. If you are going down he is going up and you hit your both dumb azzez for not moving. Drive like a car guy going up to the right guy going down to the left.
 
i had a situation last year we were playing in a shoot a guy went up and over i watched him get to the top and i started to go up for some reason he decided to come down the shoot we met at the tightest spot in the shoot i had to stuff my sled into the rock face and watch it roll down it has been said comon sence is not common
 
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This is a hill where you can not see the bottom from the top--you are already dropping in when you can see the bottom--I would say we both hit the hill about the same.

I am just out to get a general opinion here. Nothing really happened serious here. I have some sore muscles that ended my day of riding--he ended up with a torn running board and broken windshield that occured when his sled rolled after the collision. It was just a bad circumstance.

It appears that most think the way I do--If I am headed up a chute and another rider comes down--I will do all in my power to vacate that chute--bar riding off a cliff:eek:.

All mountian riders know there are many times like this--where you can not see the bottom when you start the drop in.

We both made a poor decision--I should have put my sled in "R" and dug it in--Oh well, next time.


H20SKE...
 
Given the situation where both sleds are on the hill at the same time BEFORE it can be known the other is there.

The sled coming downhill has the right of way.
He can't stop and has limited control for changing directions, where as the sled coming up the hill can turn out, trench in or just change direction.
 
Rule of thumb common sense wise would be 1 guy only on a hill, chute, cornice or in the trees with other riders at the bottom keeping an eye on him for potential incident. If 1 guy is coming down and the other is going up I would say on each others left just like on the highway. But why would anyone compromise another rider on any hill. Most of the time it is extreme and the point is to see who can get up further. If its an easy hill everyone follow in a line if its a guarantee youll get over.
 
No rules

right of way; a common law or statutory right to proceed ahead of another.

common sense; sound practical sense, normal intelligence.

Since there is no LAW in the hills, we must rely on common sense. I'm not sure about you guy's, but some of the riders I run across don't have any. Therefore you must be ready for every type of situation while riding.
 
I think Paul was probably going down as I don't think he has learned to go up yet. HeHe.....

I know the spot and I would say the guy going down has the right of way, if your going up there is plenty of room to change your coarse, going down not much of an option.
 
In the aviation world the less maneuverable vehicle has the right of way. I would say it is harder for the sled going down hill to maneuver. Its lots easier to turn or slow down going up hill then down. Of course, there is always the one sled on a hill at a time rule, to avoid avalanche.
 
Just a bit of info here--this is a trail in and out of a bowl---not a area you are highmarking on that has anything to do with a 1 sled on the hill rule--this is the way in and out of a couple bowl areas.

General concensious is--that the rider going up hill should make way for the yahoo--(ME) in this case--coming down.

H20SKE...
 
H20SKE said:
Just a bit of info here--this is a trail in and out of a bowl---not a area you are highmarking on that has anything to do with a 1 sled on the hill rule--this is the way in and out of a couple bowl areas.

General concensious is--that the rider going up hill should make way for the yahoo--(ME) in this case--coming down.

H20SKE...
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I heard you went down on other sledders :eek: ;) :beer;
 
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