Supreme Court case shakes Idaho ski areas by overturning decades of liability precedent
A skier glides downhill at Silver Mountain Resort in this file photo.
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It was clear and shady on a late-November afternoon in 2019, as a 65-year-old, 210-pound skier from Boise made his way down Lower River Run at Sun Valley, skiing with “poor control” on the moderately crowded groomed run, according to court records.
He skied across the backs of another skier’s skis and yelled, then fell and crashed head-first into a tall, yellow-padded snowmaking tower gun in the middle of the run. What happened next would not only bring tragedy to the skier’s family — it would also upend decades of court precedent on ski area liability in Idaho and potentially threaten the viability of the ski industry across the state.
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