Your Responsibility Code

Please Help Make Safety A Top Priority

Powderhorn Resort is committed to promoting skier/snowboarder safety.  In addition to traditional alpine skiers, you may also be joined by snowboarders, Telemark or cross-country skiers, skiers with disabilities or skiers with adaptive equipment.  Always show courtesy to others and be aware that there are elements of risk in skiing/snowboarding that common sense and personal awareness can help reduce.

All skiers/snowboarders must adhere to “YOUR RESPONSIBILITY CODE”:
1. Always stay in control.
2. People ahead of you have the right of way.
3. Stop in a safe place for you and others.
4. Whenever starting downhill or merging, look uphill and yield.
5. Use devices to help prevent runaway equipment.
6. Observe signs and warnings, and keep off closed trails.
7. Know how to use the lifts safely.

Have a Great and Safe Freestyle Day

Freestyle Terrain includes, but is not limited to, two terrain parks and terrain park features such as jumps, rails, fun boxes, and other constructed and natural features, and freestyle-bump terrain.

1. Freestyle Terrain contains man-made and natural terrain variations.
2. Freestyle Terrain changes constantly due to weather and use.
3. Inspect Freestyle Terrain before using and throughout the day.
4. In jumping and using this terrain, you assume the risk of serious injury.
5. Be courteous and respect others.
6. One user on a Terrain feature at a time.
7. Never jump blindly-use a spotter when necessary.  Look Before You Leap!
8. It is your responsibility to control your body on the ground and in the air.
9. Always clear the landing area quickly.
10. Always ride or ski in control and within your ability.
11. Aerial somersaulting maneuvers are NOT allowed anywhere on the mountain.

Additional Rules at Powderhorn

Colorado Ski Safety Act
You must obey the Colorado Ski Safety Act. The Act describes each skier’s/snowboarder’s responsibilities, which are important to all members of the skiing/snowboarding public. Copies of the Act are available at any ticket office or Ski Patrol facility. Violators of the Act may be prosecuted.
Warning

Under Colorado law, a skier/snowboarder assumes the risk of any injury to person or property resulting from any inherent dangers and risks of skiing/snowboarding/ snow-shoeing and may not recover from any ski area operator for any injury resulting from any of the inherent dangers and risks of skiing/snowboarding including: changing weather conditions; existing or changing snow conditions; bare spots; rocks; stumps; trees; collisions with natural objects, man-made objects, or other skiers; variation in terrain; and the failure of skiers/snowboarders to ski/snowboard within it. The Ski Safety Act was amended in 2004 to include cliffs, extreme terrain, trees, jumps and freestyle terrain as inherent dangers and risks of the sport.

Extreme Terrain
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.

Backcountry Skiing/Snowboarding Warning
Pursuant to the Colorado Ski Safety Act, the ski area assumes no responsibility for the safety and welfare of skiers/snowboarders going beyond the ski area boundary.  To access the backcountry, use designated gates only.  Areas beyond the ski area boundary are not patrolled or maintained.  Avalanche slopes, unmarked obstacles and other natural hazards exist.  Rescue in the backcountry, if available, is the responsibility of the Mesa County Sheriff.  It will be costly and may take time. The law provides for up to $1000 in fines for such searches.

Be Aware.  Ski With Care.

Areas which are marked with the yellow grid are designated slow skiing areas.  Please use caution.  No matter where you ski/snowboard at Powderhorn, remember you are sharing the slope with other skiers/snowboarders.

It is against Colorado State Law to cross any closure, rope or sign at Powderhorn Resort; violators will be prosecuted.  Irresponsible skiing/snowboarding behavior in any situation will result in immediate revocation of skiing/snowboarding privileges.

In Case of Accidents
1. Place skis on end, crossed in the snow above the scene of the accident.
2. Report the accident to the Ski Patrol at any mountain Ski Patrol hut, or notify the nearest lift attendant.
3. Remain calm. The Ski Patrol will ask for the exact location of the accident, a description of the injured person(s) and the nature of the injury.