Skiing Insurance Cover
Skiing Insurance Cover
Some here rethink Florida beach trips
For people in central Ohio who love visiting Florida’s Gulf Coast, vacation-related worries are starting to hit high tide.
Our Melbourne Snowboard Winner
Can anyone recommend COMPREHENSIVE ski insurance?
I read a newspaper article the other day which said that lots of policies are unclear about what they cover with regards to off-piste skiing.
The problem with off-piste ski-ing is that if you venture off marked runs on your own (without a guide and/or another adult insured for off-piste areas which are designated safe by the resort management), or choose to ski down areas which are officially closed, then you cannot be covered for getting yourself – and others – into trouble. It absolutely has to be at your own risk. These areas are generally not avalanche-assessed and have other hazards which you might not know unless you live in the area.
So either you save up loads of money and stash it away for the day when/if you come acropper and end up having to be airlifted off some god-forsaken slope, or you curtail your off-piste tendencies by finding more challenging, officially designated areas to ski.
Bear in mind that if you do have an accident off-piste, the ski guides are going to have to put their lives at risk to rescue you – that’s if they can find you in the first place.
Sorry to sound so doom-mongering. I’ve seen too many people get themselves into scrapes when they should have known better to be sympathetic to off-pisters I’m afraid.