| Helmet law should be a mandate. I was at Sugarbush last season doing photography, swung by the little kiddie terrain park and some kid had just went flying off a jump. New skier, no helmet and went uncon. His mother and father, sister were there. Mother freaking out. She's about to do CPR because he isn't breathing, the mother turned out to be a Doctor herself.
I called in to the emergency med guys over the 911 channel on handheld. Finally kids wakes up and is screaming his head off in fear.
I have a 7 year old daughter and she's skied the last two seasons always with a helmet. Afterward I see the parents in the lodge and they see my daughter with the helmet on. They said there would be no doubt they would be making their kids were helmets.
I don't always wear a helmet, although I should. I don't go crazy down the mountain. Different story with kids, especially young boys in terrain parks. |