SAFETY

Progressing Park Design Includes Progressing Safety

Being at the forefront of park design,every summer we push what a snowpark should be. It doesn't just mean crazier features, it means progressing the safety aspect of park riding. With Steve Petrie/Arena Snowparks having park design down to an art, and never being satisfied with what he did the year before, our injuries per session has gone down by about 75%. With transitions designed to be as safe as possible for landing on your feet but also when your feet aren't the first thing to touch the snow. Properly designed transitions for landing as well as taking off means impacts are a lot less, which means fewer injuries, which means you can learn more and ride more instead of spending time in the medical clinic.

You can still get hurt at camp, and there is nothing that makes a session safer than common sense and taking a few warm up runs every day and checking out all the features. Steve likes to change things up all the time so you never know what might be different from one day to the next.

Grooming.

Arena Snowparks grooms our park every single night with a snowcat. We are the only camp that does this. It costs a lot of money over the course of the summer, but we figure your safety is number one. Arena grooms the takeoffs, landings, trannies, everything. This makes the park perfect every day. We also groom a part of the park that most camps forget about. We groom the flats in between the features so that it stays fast, solid and safer. There's nothing worse than claiming your stomped 9 and then ragdolling through the flats because you hit a wall of slushy soup. A groomed park that is fresh every day is probably the best thing on earth in the summer.

Safety Equipment.

We recommend wearing a helmet and a mouth guard. Mouth guards are a very important piece of safety equipment few people think about. Most concussions are from your teeth clacking together hard when you don’t land smooth. The impact of teeth on teeth transmits the impact right to your brain. Not good. Get a mouth guard, you might never need it but the one-day you do, you will be stoked that you had it in.

You can get a fitted mouth guard at any dentist.

Helmet Usage

Helmets are not mandatory at camp. It is the camper's responsibility to wear head protection. We fully encourage and promote helmet use, but do not force anyone to wear them.

Campers can try out a helmet FREE of charge from our demo room, if they don't already own one.

Mouthguards are also recommended.