If the ski area is closing in reaction to these burials, and posting new info on their website warning about and giving procedures for dealing with a set of hazards after the fact, should they have been expected to do so ahead of time, given that they are experts in interpretting these conditions? And if not before both burials after the first?
<br><br>I'm not a lawyer and have a friend who often acts as a defense attorney for ski areas/etc. and to top that, I'm currrently sitting in front of a computer is Seattle, but....the ski area must be concerned unless one assumes that the ski area is acting on morals. It would seem to me that a ski area doing it's usual business would have little liability as long as it did it's work to a reasonable, comparative or historic standard; however...I wonder if that would be the case if the ski area has fostered or promoted a culture of the steep and deep with perhaps minimal precautions - don't know if that is the case, but it is something to ponder. Guiding is the same way - reasonable standard. But there are some who think that running a business has certain inherent risks. It depends on how one defines inherent risk - I personally believe inherent risk is something one could not be expected to perceive or expect. Now this is just my opinion, but, the other type of risk would seem to be Acknowledged or Anticipated risk - something one should reasonably be expected to foresee as a possibility and yet has perhaps chosen to ignore. (Made an insufficient or poor estimation of Hazard and consequences, or chosen to accept the consequences voluntarily).<br><br>I don't think what I am saying is all that novel, just common sense; but speaking about this kind of logic or reasonable response in a custodial situation was enough to have a hacker attack my computer and embed a number of vile programs and applications while on TTips.<br><br>Were it me, as a guide, or as a ski area, that is how I would look at it in defining "appropriate" decision-making behavior. How this relates to Baker, I don't know. I don't have sufficient information.
