When will Winter Park Resort\u2019s management and, in turn, the
\nski patrol, have the courage to control the reckless, high speed, irresponsible
\nskiers and riders on the seven territories of Winter Park and Mary Jane?<\/p>\n
Imagine a driver on Interstate 70 going 80 mph and changing
\nlanes in 50 mph traffic. It\u2019s insane and reckless. Collisions are inevitable and
\ncome with dire consequences. <\/p>\n
What will be enough? A wrenched back? A broken leg? A death?
\nMaybe multiple deaths. Is Winter Park so concerned with offending the
\ninconsiderate, careless scofflaws with a warning or ticket removal that the
\nresort is willing to jeopardize the safety of the responsible 99.5% of its business
\n\u2014 those who ski safely?<\/p>\n
It seems like this shouldn’t be just a criticism, but
\ninstead should propose a solution, so here are a few suggestions:<\/p>\n
1) Pull the lift tickets of those who are a danger to
\nall on the slopes, either for the day, the week or the season, depending on the
\noffense and the degree of cooperation from the offender.<\/p>\n
2) Publicize in the newspaper whose tickets have been
\npulled. At least one Colorado ski area has done this.<\/p>\n
3) Increase ski patrol\u2019s presence on trails and don’t
\nhesitate to warn dangerous offenders.<\/p>\n
4) Add more speed control fences at high
\ntraffic congestion points. I can think of some obvious choices. Slow signs
\ndo little good \u2014 reckless skiers speed by them all the time.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a shame when lifelong skiers abandon the sport, not
\nbecause of injury or age, but because of FEAR of collision and injury by fast, out
\nof control skiers and riders. Existing signs on lift towers warn: \u201cReckless
\nSkiing Will Not Be Tolerated,” yet seldom is this enforced. Better these
\nminor preventative measures than injury, death, litigation, bad publicity and
\nloss of business. In closing, my question remains: When?<\/p>\n
\u2014 Pete Peterson, Tabernash<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When will Winter Park Resort\u2019s management and, in turn, the ski patrol, have the courage to control the reckless, high speed, irresponsible skiers and riders on the seven territories of Winter Park and Mary Jane? Imagine a driver on Interstate 70 going 80 mph and changing lanes in 50 mph traffic. It\u2019s insane and reckless. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-09 02:31:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}