Your Responsibility Code
Your Responsibilities on the Mountain
Your engagement in safety plays a key part in our role as stewards of good times.
Your experience here begins far in advance of the moment you step onto our slopes, and continues much after you've left. Guest feedback helps us understand that when it comes to safety, our visitors care about three different areas of interest: skill-related issues, their total on-mountain experience, and the various hazards that accompany skiing and riding.
While you're here, heed the signs posted around the mountain. They're there to educate, advise, and warn you. Who knows...you might even learn something!
Your Responsibility Code
- Always stay in control. You must be able to stop or avoid people or objects.
- People ahead or downhill of you have the right-of-way. You must avoid them.
- Stop only where you are visible from above and do not restrict traffic.
- Look uphill and avoid others before starting downhill or entering a trail.
- You must prevent runaway equipment.
- Read and obey all signs, warnings, and hazard markings.
- Keep off closed trails and out of closed areas.
- You must know how and be able to load, ride and unload lifts safely. If you need assistance, ask the lift attendant.
- Do not use lifts or terrain when impaired by alcohol or drugs.
- If you are involved in a collision or incident, share your contact information with each other and a ski area employee.
How to Lose Your Pass
The Resort may suspend or revoke skiing/riding privileges for reasons including but not limited to:
- Careless and Reckless Skiing or Riding: Violating the Responsibility Code; Violating Federal, State or local law; Skiing/riding in a manner that is dangerous or irresponsible; Causing a collision resulting in physical injury or damage to property
- Inappropriate behavior including but not limited to: vulgar language or gestures, deliberately knocking down barriers, jumping fences, spraying guests with snow, verbal altercations, or harassment.
- Destruction of Resort property
- Skiing or riding in closed terrain
- Failure to present valid ski pass
- Failure to stop or yield to Resort personnel
- Impairment by alcohol or drugs
- Unauthorized teaching
- Violent, intentionally harmful, or destructive acts
- Egregious behavior or multiple infractions of safety standards
For ski/ride-related pass suspensions, the guest must complete the period of any suspension and attend a violator class hosted by the Resort before skiing/riding privileges are reinstated.
The Resort may also ban violators from one or more resorts and other company properties on a temporary or permanent basis. The Resort reserves all rights to pursue the recovery of any and all damages, including through legal action.
Colorado Ski Safety Act
Assumption of Risk
Skiing and snowboarding are inherently risky activities. However, there are elements of risk that your common sense and personal awareness can help reduce, namely around skill and ability level, hazards, and different aspects of the mountain experience (like alpine wellness).
The purchase of a lift ticket or pass signifies an acceptance of the Release of Liability. The Release includes a waiver of claims, assumption of risk, and indemnity as an agreement that is part of every guest's ticketed experience.
Compliance
Because Vail takes the safety of our guests and employees very seriously, failure to comply with Colorado Ski Safety Act and Your Responsibility Code, avoid collisions with other skiers and riders, and/or support other slope safety efforts may result in revocation of skiing/riding privileges, physical ban from the resort, or even legal prosecution, depending upon the issue at hand.