You know....it's only the first week of the winter and all ready about 90% of the people who have been out skiing/boarding are pissing me off. The reason??? Lack of fucking common sense, lack of courtesy and lack of park etiquette.
1. If there is a fence up...there is a reason for it. Don't knock it down because you don't want it. ESPECIALLY fencing to the entrance of the park and pipe. That fence is required to be there for insurance reasons. If it keeps getting knocked down and there is an insurance person there doing an inspection....guess what...there is no longer a park/pipe cause they've cancelled the insurance for it. And by the way, insurance has tripled for all ski resorts.
2. Wait until a jump is clear before going over it. If there are slower people in front of you or someone who isn't as good, give them enough time to get out of the way. There have been kids killed on tables/hips etc, from taking a ski to the head or abdomen. That too will get terrain parks shut down.
3. Don't be an ass to patrol, especially if they've temporarily closed a jump/rail down for an accident. I don't know how many times I was bitched at this weekend for blocking a rail while patrol attended to someone who had dislocated their shoulder. Ski patrol have a lot of influence on management and in extreme cases can have the park shut down.
4. If a feature (ie. rail or table) is shut blocked off...don't open the thing at your leisure. There is a reason for it. If you want that feature open, find the terrain park staff or patrol and find out why it's not open. Maybe there is something unsafe, or maybe staff were about to get around to fixing it so it would be better. I had a table closed off this weekend so the take-off could set (this was just for about 30 mins as it had just been groomed)...I came back and about 100 people had gone off the table, destroying the take-off (making a big ass rut that was unfixable)and spent the rest of the day trying to explain to people why the take-off sucked.
Anyway, this was just to vent. A bit of common sense and park etiquette may be all we need to keep our terrain parks open and safe.
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