Safety
In the last couple years with Steve Petrie/Arena Snowparks having park design down to an art,
our amount of injuries per session has gone down by 75%. With transitions designed for as safe a
landing as possible, landing on your feet feels great but when you don't land on your feet the
impact is 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 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. 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.