I'm going to jump in here. While we can discuss who has the right of way, it doesn't help much if you have the right of way and a broken leg. Your leg is still broken. Slow skiers can improve their chances of safe skiing by following some simple rules. If the slow skier "stays in their lane" and is predictable, faster skiers will find it easier to ski past them. Too often I see the novice making tight turns and big turns, wandering from side to side without ever looking over their shoulder. It can be difficult to predict where they will be and pass them allowing ample room. When I take the grand kids, I tell them - if you start on the right side of the run, stay on the right side. You can go across the run but look over your shoulder first.
I'm just saying that having the right of way doesn't make the broken leg heal any faster.
Bumping this thread with this comment for a reason.
I was skiing Copper Mountain the day before OR in Denver with
@Philpug and
@DCagle when we bumped into
@Justin Koski and
@Sethmasia.
I went off to ski with Seth and Justin while Phil and Dwayne skied more bumps. (trying to save my legs for the week)
Seth is a good instructor and was giving me some tips on skiing a short radius turn line, which I was doing when a 4 year old kid in a power wedge was coming across the fall line directly at me. I sped up to avoid this child, while Seth was behind me and made another move to avoid the child.
We stopped below the section of the run where Justin was standing and viewing the incident.
The parents (with the child) approached me to scream at me that I almost hit their child, and I was skiing too fast."you almost hit a 4 year old because you were skiing too fast!!"
This is a clear case where the parents wanted to ski "bigger stuff" and over terrained their child, and I did what I needed to do to avoid the child by speeding up and avoiding the child in a clear line that was short radius along the far right edge.
Seth made another big move to avoid the child and yet the parents thought WE were in the wrong.
Justin, who saw the incident from below said that the kid was on terrain he wasn't prepared to ski.
I know intermediates need to grow and will make wrong moves on occasion, and we need to do what we can to help them and avoid them, but the intermediates, or their stewards need to realize this and not berate the advanced skiers who do their best to avoid them the stuff like this happens.