Bedder v. Windham Mountain Partners, LLC

Plaintiff seeks damages for injuries he suffered during a snowboarding run down defendants’ mountain trail. By engaging in the recreational sport of snowboarding, plaintiff “consented] to those commonly appreciated risks which are inherent in and arise out of the nature of the sport generally and flow from such participation” (Whitman v Zeidman, 16 AD3d 197, 197 [2005] [internal quotation marks and citation omitted]). Personal injury caused by hitting a stump on the side of the trail, while swerving to avoid another person using the trail, is one of the risks inherent in downhill snowboarding…