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Was skiing with son and daughter-in-law today. She has been taking a series of weekly lessons. While riding the chair up I commented on on a group of kids, many of whom were stopped under the lift, with an area ski instructor. Talked about the dangers and when I was working as an instructor at another area years back, this was prohibited in the strongest manner due to the obvious dropped object hazards. ( The safety of your students being the instructors first responsibility). Anyhow, I asked if they had mentioned this hazard, or any others including granting the downhill skier the right of way, or always looking uphill before proceeding onto the run. Sadly she replied that they had not been covered in the lessons. Addressing these items at the commencement of the lesson was required by the instructors at the area I worked.It seems to me that a ski instructor or mountain guide would know the skier's alpine responsibility code and would not have been berating the alleged victim if the alleged victim wasn't totally at fault in this collision. Then again many skiers don't understand the code as shown in the Epic red vs grey thread