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Canada’s fi rst Paralympic snowboard team is based at Big White in the lead up to Sochi Read more inside...
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Big White’s racing legend inducted into the B.C.Sports Hall of Fameby Kevin Parnell
Zoe Athans never had the chance to see her father Greg compete as one of the best freestyle skiers in the world.
Now a 19-year-old physics/en-gineering student at UBC, Zoe was only 11 years old when Greg Athans passed away in 2006, at just 51 years of age, suffering complications from
type II diabetes.The gregarious Athans was a pio-
neer in the sport of freestyle skiing, a multiple-time world champion and a self-taught innovator. Also a world class water skiier his accomplish-ments will fi nally be recognized by the B.C. Sports Hall of Fame, who will induct Athans posthumously as part of the class of 2014.
But as good as he was on the slopes or on the water, or later in his life as a photographer, it was as a person and a father where Greg Athans really seemed to excel.
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inside:inside:inside:Local Legend recognized Greg Athans inducted to B.C. Sports Hall of Fame ..........2
Adaptive snowboarding People In Motion expands horizons ...............................6
Paralympic snowboard team Training for Sochi at Big White ......................................9
Big White overview Get familiar with the mountain ..........................12-13
Central Okanagan Search and Rescue Dedicated volunteers train at Gem Lake ..................... 14
Extraordinary piano music Worth having a listen at The Woods ........................... 15
A memorable month Highlights from the holiday season ............................ 19
What's in store Coming up at Big White ........................................... 21
Helmet safety For children and their parents .................................. 22
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The lead up to the Olympics is in full swing and Big White has a role. From the athletes who made it big on our mountain to the ones trying to make it big right now, this issue we look at Big White's
connection to Canadian athletics.
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“I didn’t get to see him when he was skiing but I know he was always the best Dad anyone could ever have,” said Zoe this week. “He was the kindest person I ever met. He never raised his voice. He was the most kind-hearted person you could meet.
When offi cially inducted in 2014, Greg Athans will become the third member of his family to reside in the B.C. Sports Hall of Fame, joining his father George Sr. and his older brother George Jr. The Athans didn’t compete and excel in sports because they wanted to win awards. They did it because they had a passion for it, instilled in them by their parents, both competitive athletes.
And Greg took the ball and ran, taking what was a fringe sport of freestyle skiing and pushing it to be-come an Olympic sport and one that Canada has excelled at for decades.
“I don’t think Greg or any of our family members were involved in
sports because we wanted notori-ety,” said George Jr. from his home in Montreal. “We all did it for the passion. I think Greg would be hon-oured by this. Personally if I look at his achievements in his particular sport I think he should have been in that B.C. Sports Hall of Fame a long time ago. Probably his accomplish-ments were far greater than what I did. But he was overlooked. This time they realized it was time and I’m really happy for that. I’ve always been very proud of his accomplish-ments.”
Greg Athans' list of accomplish-ments is outstanding. Four world freestyle titles, two world moguls titles, one world ballet title. He changed the sport of freestyle skiing and helped take it mainstream. On the water he won the Canadian wa-ter ski championships an incredible 15 times.
Younger brother Gary said he was an unbelievable role model.
“He taught me and shared with
me many of his skills in sports and life,” said Gary. “He always said the difference between fi rst and second is often just believing in yourself and simply saying ‘I can do it’ and not letting any doubt enter your mind. As I have found out he knew this applied to all aspects of life. I’m sad he could not be here to receive this award. He deserves it.”
For Zoe Athans and no doubt her older sister Carly, the lessons they learned from Greg Athans will last longer than any single sport-ing award. Still, Zoe said it’s nice to see her father honoured by the B.C. Sports Hall.
“I know when he was alive he always wanted to be inducted into the hall with his dad and brother,” said Zoe. “He always taught me to try my best and instilled in me that I could do anything I wanted to do if I set my mind to it. I always want to do my best and I always want to make my family proud because it’s a big name to live up to. I’m really excited about this. It’s a big honour for our family”
In the end, the sports accomplishments were
secondary to Greg Athans and as his family remembers the man that was instrumental in shaping many lives, it is the person and the lessons that he left behind that are being remem-bered.
“We all miss him,” said George Jr. “We all miss his great sense of hu-mour. He was kind of an iconoclast in the way he did everything his way and differently than everyone else. But if you ever asked him his crown-ing moment or his greatest achieve-ment, he would always tell you that it was his two daughters.”
Greg Athans will be offi cially in-ducted into the B.C. Sports Hall of
Fame this September.
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Greg Athans to be recognized
always wanted to be inducted into the hall with his dad and brother,” said Zoe. “He always taught me to try my best and instilled in me that I could do anything I wanted to do if I set my mind to it. I always want to do my best and I always want to make my family proud because it’s a big name to live up to. I’m really excited about this. It’s a big honour for our
In the end, the sports accomplishments were
Fame this September.
Greg Athans daughters Zoe (right) and Carly, at the media event announcing their father’s induction into the BC Sports Hall of Fame.
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The late Greg Athans, a freestyle skiing pioneer, will be posthumously inducted into the BC Sports Hall of Fame.
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sense, the club will be using a device that looks extremely simi-lar to help guide their new snow-boarders down the mountain just as the volunteer team do with the
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pontoons and sit skis they use for adaptive skiers.
This is the fi rst year the adap-tive snow-sports program op-erating off Big White will offer snowboarding and the decision to move forward with it is largely due to the arrival of another team of experts.
“I found out through the grapevine that the paralympic snowboarding team is establish-ing their training base at Big White this season and we real-ized it was a good opportunity to partner with them to learn the sport and have us become an organization that could feed potential athletes to them down the road,” said Tony Lenarcic, Powder Hounds president.
Six instructors have been as-sembled to go with two more ex-perienced instructors who have received certifi cation through the Canadian Snowboard Fed-eration. And they’re lining up equipment, like that snowboard-ing hula hoop, to help.
“There’s something called a board-buddy. It’s very similar to a handle a windsurfer uses except it’s elliptical in shape and fi ts around a snowboarder’s waist. It’s like a hula hoop, but ellipti-cal,” Lenarcic explained.
The device allows the instruc-tors to push the snowboarder forward and backward and even get him or her down into more of a bent-knee position. A telescopic pole made of pvc or aluminium pipe can also be employed to
guide the snowboarder into po-sition—and then it’s off to the races.
The Powder Hounds Adap-tive Ski Club operates out of an organization in Kelowna called People in Motion, which has been helping those with physical, sensory or cognitive disabilities participate in the community for 26 years.
The small non-profi t was in-spired by Rick Hansen’s Man in Motion tour, getting its start as part of a movement of groups formed across the country in the 1980s. From loaning sports equipment to providing trans-portation, the organization relies on more than 80 volunteers to help ensure everyone in this val-ley has the opportunity to fully enjoy the Okanagan lifestyle.
“Basically how we describe ourselves is we do promote inclu-sion and equality for all persons with disabilities,” said Louise Ab-bott, People in Motion executive director when interviewed for this magazine in 2012.
People in Motion began offer-ing adaptive sports with wheel-chair basketball and quickly add-ed vans equipped to move people with disabilities to their program. They acquired a bus with lifts, started loaning the vans and 14 years ago, under the guidance of Jon Rescorla and Anthony Hut-ton, created the Powder Hounds.
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The � rst Canadian paralympic snowboard team spends the month on Big White preparing for the Sochi games in March and competing at the Para Snowboard World Cup Boardercross event January 25-26 on the hill.
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says her coach Candice Drouin of the Snowboard Canada paralympic team.
Exceptional, extraordinary, al-most unbelievable might be how anyone else hearing her story might put it. Two-and-a-half years after she lost her right leg—and broke her pelvis and hips, acquired mul-tiple compound fractures while severing her femoral artery, nearly causing her to bleed to death on an Alberta highway—she’s queuing up to take on the world as a paralympic snowboarder.
“When I was told about my leg I defi nitely had my moment of sad-ness, but it was pretty quickly after that I decided I wanted to be a para-lympian,” she says, while training at Aspire Gym in Kelowna.
Aspire is one of several venues helping the fi rst para snowboard olympic hopefuls supplement their training time on Big White in prepa-ration for the 2014 Winter Paralym-pics in Sochi, Russia.
Big White is ground zero for the Canadian paralympic snowboard team and they’ve already spent sev-
eral weeks on the hill gearing up for an epic year in the sport. (This is the fi rst paralympic games for snow-boarding.)
In early December, they put in a heavy duty training session, working multiple days on snow and in the gym to make their dreams of taking an olympic podium come true.
And after taking a break for Christmas, they returned to the hill January 5 to prepare for a string of World Cup events, including one at Big White this month.
January 25 and 26 will see the Para Snowboard World Cup Board-ercross hit the Telus Park and Salt will be among those competing and waiting to see if her name is called as one of Canada’s Paralympic team.
She is currently ranked ninth in the world. It is going to take a stu-pendous performance this month to ensure she stays in the running, but Salt is not one to shy away from a challenge and believes she's likely going.
“The accident was the best thing that ever happened to me,” she says as she starts spinning on a station-
ary bike, warming up so she can start lifting the weights she needs to build and rebuild her body.
Old Michelle, as she refers to her, was a fi tness model by trade and that’s likely what saved her life. Her physical conditioning kept her heart strong enough to continue beating even as blood poured from her body.
She was pretty and pretty super-fi cial, Salt explains. And that’s about as much as she cares to elaborate on her former self. A mild brain in-jury has left her with the ability to remember her life history and what she learned from it, but there’s no emotional connection to her former self—and she doesn’t seem to mind.
This new woman made the call from her hospital bed to the paralympic team to fi nd out what it would take to put herself in the running. With an above-the-knee amputation, she wasn’t a likely can-didate for snowboarding, but that obviously didn’t slow her down.
Her teammate, John Leslie, has an entirely different nature. Where Salt sidelines a full-time job doing business development for an oil and gas company, at 21 years old Leslie is slowly logging time and investment in a small-town Home Hardware store. His goal is to own it by the time he is 40 years old.
He wants a family and a quiet life with friends in Arnprior, Ontario. Making it onto the paralympic team wasn’t his own vision, he says.
Leslie lost a portion of his leg at 11 years old to osteosarcoma, the same cancer as Terry Fox.
His surgeons amputated a por-tion of his leg from just above his knee, what’s refered to as the distal femur, to the proximal tibia, just above his foot, then reattached his foot to his leg, placing it backward so it acts as a knee joint.
The surgery is called a Van Ness rotationplasty and it’s left him with a very functional leg and prosthetic.
“It’s the muscles that move my knee that now move my foot. So I would think, move my knee and feel it in my foot,” Leslie says, explaining how he relearned how to walk.
It sounds confusing, but after working through his therapy, he managed to join the ski and snow-board team in high school and start racking up wins.
When a new coach arrived in his senior year, she was so impressed with his athletic prowess she started grilling him on the route he would take next, never even realizing his one leg was a prosthetic. He ex-plained he felt this was the end of the
Michelle Saltis the exception,
Paralympian olympic hopefuls training at big white… from page 9
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Michelle Salt shreds some powder enroute to the Sochi games.
Coach Candice Drouin's full-time job is dedicated to training the paralympic snowboarders.
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line for his snowboarding career and she quite quickly pointed him in the direction of the paralympic training team and Coach Drouin.
In 2011, straight out of high school, he went to the Para Snow-board Cross World Cup and placed fi fth, beating out every Canadian, including Tyler Mosher, a pioneer in the sport. He hasn’t looked back.
“I’m enjoying the whole experi-ence, not only as an athlete, but as a person,” he says.
Ian Lockey is also soaking it in, though for different reasons. Now 40 years old, he stands among those who blazed the trail Leslie will follow and he is a daredevil through and through.
Unlike Leslie, he has already built his life around his passions: snowboarding and mountain bik-ing.
Operating out of Red Mountain, the same hill legendary Olympian Nancy Greene came out of, Lockey runs a mountain bike shuttle ser-vice, Kootenay Mountain Shuttle, and touring operation, Kootenay Mountain Bike Coaching, and man-ages The Red Shutter Inn in Ross-land.
His quest for an Olympic run has been long and expensive.
Originally from New Zealand, he started coming to B.C. to snowboard
in 1995. Three years later, he broke his back, leaving him 50 per cent paralyzed from the waist down.
In practical terms, it means he has no calf muscles, no hamstrings and reduced gluteus maximus func-tioning.
“Doctors told me I would never walk again,” he said. “I decided that was not acceptable.”
With a “massive dose of stub-bornness” he managed to make it back out onto the mountain, but snowboarding was not a paralympic option.
The Para Snowboarding pro-gram began in Canada in 2006 with athlete development camps, Para-
Snowboard competitions and coach training. The fi rst Para Snowboard World Cup was held in Whistler in 2008 and Sochi will be the fi rst Para-lympic event, though it is only for those with lower limb impairment.
Lockey pre-exited all of this. He went to the fi rst major event, the U.S. Nationals in 2007, which had an adaptive class with fi ve athletes and walked away with the competition. From slope-style to boardercross, half-pipe to slalom and giant sla-lom, he won them all.
His motto is that lightening nev-er strikes twice and he leaves every-thing he has on the hill. The words “are you breathing in and out” are
tattooed on his forearm, a reminder that fear is a fl ight or fi ght response he doesn’t need to bother with.
This year’s inaugural team of paralympians will be named at Big White this month.
All will have already climbed a mountain higher than any hill any olympian or paralympian will ever ride or ski down. As their coach sees it, that’s what makes this sport so fun. Every day that she comes to work she watches people adapt and learn to adapt to a set of circum-stances completely their own.
The paralympics run March 7 to 16 in Sochi, Russia.
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line for his snowboarding career and Continued from page 10
Ian Lockey has been riding for decades and is considered a para snowboard veteran.
Veteran rider Tyler Mosher, John Leslie, Michelle Salt, and Ian Lockey all aim to become the fi rst paralympic snowboard champions.
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Avalanches are always in the news, but it takes a special person and special training to get out there and rescue those who fall victim.
On Saturday, January 11 some of the volunteers from the Central Okanagan Search and Rescue were on the hill to learn the tech-niques to do so.
“We need big piles of snow for avalanche training,” said Duane Tresnich, vice president of the CO-SAR.
With 45 members, this year-round team of volunteers has to be as prepared to pull a hiker from a ravine in August as a snowmobiler from a frozen lake in December. And with the help of a little Big White terrain, the vol-
unteers got to brush up on what it takes to do the job—with an audience.
“We learn how to use a probe, how to use a transceivers, how to dig (people) out,” said Tresnich.
The Greystoke Recreation Area outside Vernon has seen an in-crease in avalanches of late due to clearcutting, so the training is all the more critical this year.
“Besides the snow coming down in the avalanche, second-ary avalanches are always the big thing to look out for,” said Tresn-ich.
COSAR has access to a heli-copter to drop explosives should it become necessary via Emergency Management B.C. With offi ces in Victoria and Kamloops, the team
can rally whatever equipment it needs with a phone call.
Training for two to two-and-a-half hours each Thursday, the team logs a full-day session like the one held at Gem Lake, once every couple of weeks and then spends whatever time it takes to get a job done when they’re called into action.
Despite the hours, many of the volunteers have been working with COSR for over a decade.
Asked why they do it, Tresnich said it’s for the “love of the com-munity and the fact that they want to come out and help.”
“We all want to kind of make a difference,” he said.
Bombs awayBombs awayBombs away…the Central Okanagan Search and Rescue hitsGem Lake for training
by Jennifer Smith
Avalanche training is critical for the search and rescue teams who pull people from the depths of snow
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by Jennifer Smith
If you’re up on the hill to “forget about life for a while,” take a stroll over to The Woods so the piano man can help.
Alternately played by Vernon’s Steve Todd and Kelowna’s Dana Barnes, the live piano at this new tapas nook will certainly help soothe a few hard-earned sore muscles after an adventurous day on the hill.
“I’ve probably been playing for close to 40 years, but professionally since I was 16 or 17,” said Todd, who is one half of a duelling pianos act called Double Click that Barnes cre-ated.
The pair don’t generally duel at Big White as The Woods is an inti-mate venue designed for a quick lunch on the hill or a long involved evening of great food and wine. But even as a solo act, Todd likes to pull a few punches, occasionally adding
a guitar into the mix.Born in Powell River, B.C. Todd
has the kind of storied life one might expect Billy Joel or Elton John would enjoy picking over in a composition and he didn’t mind sharing the de-tails with this magazine.
His family moved to Africa in 1967 so his father could teach. When they returned, it was back to life in small-town B.C.—the seeds that would eventually lead him to choose a home in Vernon, a town of just over 30,000 people.
While living in Terrace, at 10 years old, he developed a passion that would shape his life.
“I got into guitar and music, much to my parents chagrin. They wanted me to get a job,” he admit-ted.
Thankfully he did get jobs as well. Many of them in fact Like most musicians, he has dabbled in plenty
of career paths along the way, even swinging a hammer near those pre-cious fingers; but he manages to tickle the ivories before an audience enough to maintain an impressive stance in a profession based on tal-ent.
Dana Barnes also has a prolific music career in the valley and ini-tiated the duelling pianos act that caught the attention of Trevour Quinn, owner of The Woods. Quinn set each musician up on a small stage and, while they’re usually on for roughly four hours, if the tip jar is flowing, they just keep going.
“I’m usually exhausted at night, but I still have a lot of adrenalin go-ing when I perform, so that’s when I do a lot of my writing,” Todd noted.
When his gigs are through, he’ll usually set about work on his own material, most of which is never per-formed live, though he does like to
collaborate.Todd has a smooth jazz CD com-
ing out with Kelowna resident, Mike Ohman. Performing under the name Sharply Detached, they’re hoping the record, Rough Around The Edg-es, catches the imagination of local jazz buffs—and maybe CBC. In the meantime, you can always find him behind an Okanagan piano playing events in The Delta Grand ballrooms or at The Blue Gator, a blues joint in the heart of Kelowna.
“I do more the jazz, blues, rock and roll and old-school rhythm and blues. I like swing music, Louie Jor-dan—he was big in the 1940s—but I try to get some younger stuff in too like Wonderwall (by Oasis),” he said.
The Woods opened this season in the heart of the village and is also of-fering the hill’s first ski-thru break-fast sandwiches and coffees. Come by for dinner and a piano conversation.
Double Click away to a singalongKelowna’s duelling piano players rock The Woods
Dana Barnes and Steve Todd have a duelling pianos act, but tickle a single set of keys at The Woods.
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Last year was the fi rst year of People-in-Motion’s annual Ski/Board-A-Thon. It was held in conjunction with the Kids in Motion Family Fun Day, an in-vitational event designed to sup-port the many sports programs it runs, its transportation compo-nent and raise awareness of the organization and its mandate.
With Big White offering 25 per cent off the lift ticket, the fi rst event managed to pull in $7158 and People in Motion would love to double that amount this year.
The event runs Sunday, Mar. 2 beginning at 9 a.m. Registration is open at pimbc.ca
lecting pledges to do the activity Continued from page 8
Ski/Board-A-Thon fundraiser happens March 2 at Big White
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Organizers of the second annual Ski/Board-A-Thon are hoping to raise more funds and attract more smiling faces just like these, who attended last year's inaugural event.
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Red Banner Month for Big White
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December 2013, the staff also made memories of the commu-nity centre stage by opening the month with the new Sweater Ball.
This inaugural event not only raised funds for the Kelowna General Hospital Foundation, but helped the resort mark its 50th birthday with a walk down memory lane. Moving forward, the event will be another touch of elegance to a festive month where the Big Reds wine event already has the (wine) critics blushing with pleasure.
Red was the colour of the month as some 50 skiers clad in Santa outfi ts lined up to try and secure one of the 30 free tickets available to those who suited up on Deember 21. Dr. Seuss’s Grin-ch would have been seeing red if he had spotted all the fun on Christmas Eve as the Big White ski patrollers broke out their torches and danced down the hill, lights bobbing, to the sea of on-
It was a busy December at Big White as Santa dusted the hill with a little of his magic.
Every year the Big White com-munity puts an extra special ef-fort into making the holidays something to remember, but for
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Red Banner Month for Big WhiteThe Loose Moose Emporium opens,
Santa comes to town and a
mascot gets a girlfriendby Jennifer Smith
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nothing short of STUPENDOUS!
lookers below.Santa himself stopped in for
breakfast to take a few last min-ute requests and found a little nostalgia on the minds of the kids.
“I’ve had many requests for Furbies and even a Luke Sky-walker costume,” he said.
The pre-Christmas warm up had a few treats for the hill in store that had nothing to do with the season. The Loose Moose Emporium opened in the heart of the village offering parents a
great place to shop for high qual-ity children’s outdoor gear. And making her debut at the store, Lucy Moose, the girlfriend of Big White’s mascot Loose Moose.
Just as it was last year, New Years Eve was a sell out and Big White appears to be well on its way to achieving it’s own “be an awesome mountain” resolution.
Within the fi rst week, Big White ranked second for the deep-est snow base with the most runs open in Canada on Snowforecast.com
And the � reworks were spectacular.
Red banner month for Big White… from page 19
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nothing short of STUPENDOUS!
This is going to be a very busy season on Big White with more than a few
highlights in January and early February.
Mid-month the BC Alpine West Coast Ski Cross will see skiers battling it out in a head-to-head competition just a week after the popular Telus Park Rail Jam presents some of the best local ski and board talent in the Telus Park ( Jan. 11).
World Snow Day on Jan. 19 should prove the perfect lead up to the Para Snowboard World Cup Boardercross Jan. 21 to 26 and the announcement of the fi rst Paralympic Snowboard team.
World Snow Day is celebrated globally and serves as a fun day of activities, an opportunity to elevate the profi le of snow sports and a chance to refl ect on how environmental changes are affecting the snowy environment we love.
And of course, no Big White winter would be complete without a massive Australia Day celebration.
If you haven’t heard the “Aussie, Aussie, Aussie” cry you’ll want to get out and take in an icy cricket match or the sight of a few bare fl eet meandering through the snow in fl ip-fl ops.
Green, gold and tasting of Vegemite, Sunday, Jan. 26 will hold the usual celebrations for our friends from down under who come all the way across the Pacifi c to help make Big White what it is each season.
The Absolut World Bartending Competition on Jan. 31 and Feb. 1 will see some of the best mixologists competing for the crown and the next day, Feb. 2, Master’s Ski Week begins for the over 50 crowd.
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A helmet is not armour and should not encourage you to take more risks. The best protection against accidents is knowing and re-specting your limits and the Moun-tain Code of Conduct and Alpine Responsibility Code. The golden rule is control!
Ski and snowboard as if you weren’t wearing a helmet.
All skiers and boarders should ride responsibly and in control at all times. Helmets may help prevent head injuries in the event of certain
types of accidents, but are of little help in high-speed, head-on injuries and offer no protection against neck and other types of injuries.
Use a helmet designed specifi cally for skiing or snowboarding.
Bike helmets are designed with different impact characteristics and different areas of protection than ski and snowboard helmets and should never be worn as a substitute for a snow sports helmet. In addition to appropriate safety design, ski helmets offer advantages, such as
warmth and an integrated fi t with goggles.
Take time to ensure the helmet fi ts properly.
Snow sports helmets are not something to grow into. The helmet must fi t properly to function safely. In addition, a helmet that is an un-comfortable fi t will end up not be-ing worn. Consult a knowledgeable salesperson at a reputable store re-garding appropriate fi t for a helmet and to get any questions answered.
Buy a helmet that meets industry standards.
There are various helmet stan-dards in place including CEN (the least rigorous standard), ASTM, Snell and RS-98 (far and away the most rigorous and hard to meet standard for certifi cation). Be sure to review product literature for the helmet to fi nd out which standard the helmet meets.
Adults should serve as role models for children.
Children pick up on hypocrisy at light speed. If parents expect their children to ski and ride responsibly and wear helmets, then they should do so as well. Any adult who wears a helmet will help encourage children to follow suit.
Establish a fi rm rule regarding helmet use and skiing/snowboarding.
If a parent decides that helmets should be worn, but the child is re-
sistant, remember that it’s O.K. to say no. Establish a rule, such as “No hel-met equals no skiing or snowboard-ing.” Most ski teams and academies have rules requiring helmet use in their athletes and the athletes accept these rules as a matter of course. Your child will adhere to this rule as well if it is presented in a polite, yet non-compromising manner.
Bring your child’s or your goggles in when you buy your helmet.
Different goggles and helmets work together differently. A well-fi t-ting system will provide great protec-tion for the face and forehead from cold wind and snow and still allow adequate ventilation for the goggles.
Keep goggles and helmets attached together.
It is much harder to lose both a helmet and a set of goggles. Some parents may fi nd they recoup the cost of the helmet by not having to replace lost goggles (and hats!) as often.
Provide incentives for good helmet behavior.
A number of professional skiers and snowboarders wear helmets and can serve as great role models. Help reinforce helmet wearing with such incentives as posters of winter sport celebrities who wear helmets, or gear worn by these celebrities.
Take safety seriouslyWearing a protective helmet when practising snow sports
is a wise choice since it reduces the risk and seriousness
of certain head injuries. But beware, you still have to be careful…
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With a snow base of 149cm (58in) and 115 runs open Big White Ski Resort is at the top of the list when it comes to the best available ski and snowboard terrain in North America. Snowforecast.com ranks Big White second in Canada for the
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