Outdoor Adventures Sledding/Skating Safety Tips Winter is a great time to get outdoors and have some fun. Safety Sledding Tips Safety Skating Tips

Do…………………. Do…………………. • Choose a hill that has a gentle slope • Wear skates that are your size to and that is free of obstacles such as avoid ankle and knee injuries. Skates trees, signs, fences, rocks, creeks, that are too big can cause falls and parked or moving vehicles, railway other injuries. track, holes or jumps. • Skate in designated skating areas • during the daylight or on a well where the ice is known to be strong lit hill. • Check for cracks, holes, and debris • Dress properly, protecting hands, on the ice. feet, and your face from the cold. • Be considerate of other skaters, Safe Winter Activity Rules • Tuck in any scarves, strings, or long including those who are new to the hats that could potentially catch on a ice. • Sledding, and skiing rock or tree and cause strangulation or • Wear a helmet, especially young can cause severe injuries. children who are learning how to other serious injuries. • Steel-runner or inner tubes are skate. • Sled by sitting or kneeling down. strictly prohibited in parks. Never go down head fi rst or standing up. • Sled, snowboard and ski in Avoid……………… designated areas only. • Check your sled for cracks or • Skating alone damage before use. Choose sleds that • Pets and alcoholic beverages are • Bumping into other people strictly prohibited on sledding hills. you can steer or stop. • Skating on an untested lake or pond • Have only the recommended number • All sledders, snowboarders and skiers are recommended to wear of passengers on a sled at one time. Remember: Safe ice is found at your • Wear a properly fi tted ski or hockey protective clothing, equipment and local ice rinks. Safe outdoor skating helmets. helmet to protect against brain must have adult supervision. • Sled, snowboard and ski at your own injuries. risk. • Wait until the path is clear before starting down the hill. This could help prevent you from into another Outdoor Ice Skating person on your way down. • Move out of the way quickly if you Outdoor hockey rinks are available for rental on a per hour charge for fall or stop suddenly. team practices. Contact Parks & Recreation at 343-4163 for information. • Walk back up the side of the hill, Day and night skating available. Rinks are lit from dusk to 10p. away from other sledders. • Parents should go on sleds with Chester Creek Sports Complex (Mulcahy Park - E 16th Avenue) children under the age of 5. Two hockey rinks

• Have an adult supervise children while they are sledding. Tiklisha Park (E 20th Avenue & Sunrise Drive) Scotty Gomez Hockey Rink Avoid……………… • Hills that are too icy – you want to Cuddy Family Mid-town Park (201 W 40th Avenue) be able to stop if you need to; Two Rinks - 1 oval, 1 pond • Inner tubes, crazy carpets, fl ying saucers, garbage bags and cardboard Delaney Park Strip - hockey rink (9th Avenue & E Street) boxes- they are diffi cult to control. Goose Lake (E Northern Lights Blvd & UAA Drive) • Overcrowding a sled or toboggan with too many riders Jewel Lake (88th Avenue & Gloralee Street)

Cheney Lake (Baxter Road & Beaver Drive)

Westchester Lagoon (U Street & W 15th Avenue)

Town Square Winter Center (5th Avenue & E Street)

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