Again all well and good to look uphill, but the responsibility is still with the uphill skier, hence the reason many ski hills have slow signs and trail merging signs .. etc. Bottom line is that downhill skier has the right of way and the uphill skier has the responsibility to ski in control and give the downhill skier enough room so that even an unanticipated turn or stop does not result in a collision. Bottom line is you always need to have situational awareness when you are skiing as you cannot control the actions of other skiers but you can control your actions.Exactly. And anyone who dashes into a crosswalk in front of a car being driven responsibly better not be surprised when they get run over. Downhill skiers need to give uphill skiers a chance to miss them. I look uphill before I ski out of my "lane." And I've been hit hard when I felt that I was maintaining a consistent course and the uphill skier claimed that I skied wider than usual that one time. That skier that hit me is now a former friend. Among the worst are edge-to-edge skiers that one reasonably expects to turn some time so they can be safely passed and ski school snakes where the instructor doesn't maintain the whole class sticking to one side of the run as the group snakes down the hill.