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Copyright and Legal Words for Wild Snow™ & WildSnow.com™

Wildsnow.com™, Wildsnow™, Dawson Alpine™, Peak Internet Marketing ™ and other related phrases are trade marks and service marks of Louis Dawson, trading as a sole proprietor, D.B.A. PEAK INTERENET MARKETING, physical location Carbondale Colorado. Copyright of this website and claim of trademark by Louis Dawson and PEAK INTERNET MARKETING ™, 1996, 1997,1998,1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and ever after.

PEAK INTERNET MARKETING ™, Wild Snow™ and WildSnow™ are trade and service marks of Louis Dawson, Carbondale Colorado, hereby claimed as a trademark by virtue of established use related to website publishing, backcountry skiing, ski mountaineering, outdoor recreation, video publishing, mountain artwork, writing, photography, opinion writing, and more. “Wild Snow” is a registered trademark.

All images, designs and material in this web site are protected by a compilation copyright held by Louis Dawson and Peak Internet Marketing ™. No images, material or designs in this web site may be used without written authorization of the creator. Contact Peak Internet Marketing or the site Webmaster to contact creators and obtain rights to items found in this web site.

If you would like to use any of our content, we rent it and sell it.

Wild Snow content rental and sales rates: If you link to any of our graphics (photos or any other) for display on another website, web forum, user community, or anywhere else on the web, and choose to forego negotiating with us for rights and rates, our base rate for graphics rental is $5.00 per day, any size. For example, if you choose to display one of our graphics or videos on the web by linking to it as it exists on our webserver, you are incurring daily rental charges and we will invoice you for the duration of your use prior to the invoice, and will continue to invoice you as long as you choose to publish our graphic. If you choose to display our written content, we rent it as well, for $0.01 per day per word. For example, if you choose to display 100 words of our copyrighted text, we will invoice you for $1.00 per day of your use. We also sell our content outright, for storage on other web servers and for web publication on other websites. Rates for such use are negotiated on a case-by-case basis. If you choose to use one of our images in such a fashion (taken from us and stored on your own webserver), our minimum non-negotiated rate is $1,000 for limited rights, 24 months of publication. In other words, if we find one of our images has been copied, stored on your webserver, and published on your website, we will invoice you for a minimum of $1,000.00. If we do not receive payment in a timely manner, we will contact your web hosting company about copyright violation.

Use of images on public forums and web communities is subject to the above terms, at our discretion. Ask first. Also, whether a website is non-profit or not does not change this policy.

Bandwidth Theft
We take the concept of bandwidth theft very seriously. Please feel free to link to us with simple text links such as “see WildSnow.com“, BUT, if you display any of our content elsewhere on the web by using a link to us, for example, as in displaying one of our photos on a web forum, we are paying for the web server resources to serve that graphic to your website. If you do not have permission to do this, you are stealing our server resources (and also violating our copyright), hence the term “bandwidth theft.” If you publish our content by using URL links and using our bandwidth without permission, we will invoice you at the above content rental rates, and our attorney will contact you if necessary.

         
Welcome to Louis (Lou) Dawson's backcountry skiing information and opinion website. Lou's passion for the past forty years has been alpinism, climbing, mountaineering and skiing -- along with all manner of outdoor recreation. He has authored numerous books and articles about backcountry skiing and is well known as the first person to ski down all 54 of Colorado's 14,000-foot peaks, otherwise known as the Fourteeners! Books and free back country information here, and tons of Randonnee rando telemark info.

All material on this website is copyrighted. Permission required for reproduction, electronic or otherwise. That includes publication and display on other websites by whatever means. PLEASE SEE OUR COPYRIGHT INFORMATION.

Backcountry skiing is a dangerous sport. You may be killed or severely injured if you do any form of randone, randonnee and randonnée skiing. The information on this website is intended only as general information. While the authors and editors of the information on this website make every effort to present useful information, due to human error the information, text and images contained within this website may be inaccurate, false, or out-of-date. By using, reading or viewing the information provided on this website, you agree to absolve the owners of Wild Snow as well as content contributors of any liability for injuries or losses incurred while using such information. Furthermore, you agree to use any of this website's information, maps, photos, or binding mounting instructions or templates at your own risk, and waive Wild Snow its owners and contributors of any liability for use of said items for backcountry skiing or any other use.