Ski and Snowboard Law in Colorado and British Columbia: Fair Waiver of Unconscionable Terms?

contest. 8 It was not until 1980, and Jake Burton's introduction of the first snowboard featuring a P-tex base, 9 that snowboarding developed the potential to become the recreational powerhouse activity that it is today.10 During 2004, alpine skiers paid over 57 million visits to ski areas in the United States.11 Despite this vast amount of visitors, the most recent statistics suggest that the annual number of snowboarders has surpassed that of alpine skiers.12 Given the growth of both sports and the sheer standing up in her sled.Id.The rest of the story has become the centerpiece of snowboarding folklore.Id.As Poppen explains, he went into his garage and found a pair of children's snow skis.Id.He screwed them together, attached dowels to act as foot stops, and attached a rope to the nose for the rider to hold in order to stabilize the snurfer.Id.While it is noteworthy that the snurfer was not technically a snowboard because it did not have bindings, it was nevertheless a crucial step in the conception and creation of the modern-day snowboard.Id.Indeed, many winter enthusiasts not only rode the snurfer prototype, but also initiated design and production of their own boards to compensate for its deficiencies.Id.Most notably, these enthusiasts included Jake Burton, the founder of the snowboard equipment manufacturing Burton Snowboards Inc., and Demetrije Milovich of the former Winterstock Company.Id.It was Jake Burton who created the first actual snowboard.Id.His prototype was similar to the snurfer but with the fundamental addition of bindings to secure the rider's feet to the board.Voje, supra note 6.By securing their feet to the snowboard, riders were able to maintain better control which facilitated a dramatic increase in the skill level of all riders.See id.8. Crane, supra note 7. Modern competitive snowboarding started with a small contest held during April of 1981 at Ski Cooper in Leadville, Colorado.Id. 9. Voje, supra note 6.The word "base" used with regard to skis and snowboards refers to the part of the equipment that is intended to come into contact with the snow.Colloquially, this might be referred to as the "bottom" of the ski or snowboard.The word "P-tex" carries dual meanings.First, P-tex is an ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene, a dense and abrasion-resistant thermoplastic with low friction properties which is used as the base for skis and snowboards.P-tex is also of one of three major brand names in the industry which makes, markets, and sells the actual P-tex product.Snowboard Bases/Ski Bases, http://www.custom-shop.com/pages/p-tex.htm(last visited Dec. 27, 2006).10. Joshua D. Hecht, Comment, Snowboarding Liability: Past, Present and Future, 15 MARQ.SPORTS L. REV.249 (2004).The path to the current popularity of the sport, however, was not without tribulation.Initially, ski resorts did not even allow snowboarding because they felt that snowboarders were nothing more than rebels, and the resorts feared that their presence on the mountain would necessarily hurt the ski industry.Id. at 250.Additionally, there was a perception that snowboards themselves made the terrain unsuitable for skiing and ruined the slopes.Id. NATIONAL SKI AREAS ASSOCIATION, Downhill SkiParticipation 1985-2004, http://www.nsaa.org/nsaa/press/0506/nsga-ski-part-2004.pdf(last visited Oct. 21,

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