Intrawest Wants Lids on Kids
Intrawest Wants Lids on Kids
[ October 6, 2009 - 11:45am ]
Steamboat, Copper, Winter Park to require helmets for the under-17 set in terrain parks, ski school
Who doesn't have a helmets-saved-my-life story? A friend of SKI Magazine likes to tell the story of how a helmet saved her, not from a cliff-jump gone wrong or an underdone backflip 540, but from being a klutz. Our friend had just popped off the lift at a local Colorado resort when she slipped sideways and fell to the ground. The chair behind her swept up and conked her right on the back of the head and knocked her darn near unconscious. Had she not been wearing a helmet, she says, a concussion -- or worse -- was inevitable.
While we here at SKI like to think we're a little more graceful than that, we'll also agree that preventative protection is a good idea; you'll usually find us helmeted when we hit the hill. And it's a good thing we're used to the big plastic noggin, because the helmet issue is heating up. We already told you about Vail Resorts' decision to require helmets for all on-hill employees; rumor is this is the first step toward requiring all VR visitors to wear helmets. Now resort owner Intrawest, which runs Colorado's Copper, Winter Park and Steamboat, has announced rules requiring all those under 17 to wear helmets in terrain parks and in ski school; helmets will also come standard with youth gear rentals. Next season, Intrawest will require all on-hill employees to go be-helmeted as well. Some may gripe about the encroachment of the nanny state on this one, but for us, the more healthy, non-concussed skiers on the hill, the better.
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This is really important for kids to wear helmat while ridding or sketting.
Absolutely right, Precautionary measures are very necessary. Thanks for a great post.
Makes sense to me - I have been making my kids wear a helmet all along from riding in a back pack days to skiing now at 14 & 8 years old, I too wear to make sure the message is tight. Oh yea a helmet saving story - and lets see, yes... spring skiing in Taos with a momentino of lapsed attention on a cruiser back to the lift and BAMBo, I was down, side of head to hard snow, glasses shattered and stars spinning. It was time to limp down to the Bravarian and get some deck time for the afternoon, but no tobaggan ride for patrol thanks to the helmet.