Peter Smith v. Seven Springs Farm, Inc., T/d/b/a Seven Springs Ski Resort

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a skier who lost control on an icy slope and collided with an unpadded pole assumed the risk
• although courts refer to three forms of the doctrine, there are really only two distinct species of assumption of risk
• plaintiff skier’s choice to go down an expert trail he saw others struggle with influenced what risks were inherent
• if by reason of lack of information a plaintiff did not understand the risk involved in a particular situation that resulted in this injury, he did not assume the risk
• applying same principles in context of Pennsylvania’s Skiers Responsibility Act

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).