Safety first = On-hill speeding ticket in Whistler

In an earlier post last week I joked about “safety first” going too far in Ontario and speculated how far resorts will take it.

Turns out one of my predictions is already in practice at Whistler, B.C.

If you are ripping it too fast down the lower side of the mountain at Whistler, you will now get a speeding ticket!

Knarly Karly – a friend of a friend who carves a mean turn on her snowboard was busted at the bottom of the hill for going too fast and was advised that the fine would be charged directly to her edge card.

Enforcing a slow zone with speeding tickets does make sense – especially when you have over 15,000 people on the mountain at one time with different abilities… but let’s hope enforcement stays restricted to the bottom of the runs!