RLC Sledding & Snow Rules

Clothing

• You need to wear snow pants, a winter coat, gloves/mitts, toque, and boots when sledding

• Inside shoes need to be brought if not already – wet footwear comes off at the door and brush off snow from your body

Going Down the Hill – only sledding hill is the hill in Zone 4

• Line up

• Slide on your bum only, feet first – NO HEAD FIRST EVER

• Look before you slide

• No more than 1 person per sled – NO linking or making of chains

• Clear the bottom of the hill quickly

• Slide between the cones

• No jumps will be built – NO launching or running starts

Going Up the Hill

• Walk up outside the coned area

When / Where you may slide

• When your cohort is assigned to Zone 4 (no sledding outside the hill area of Zone 4)

• When the bell rings, sliding ends immediately!

Sleds

• Crazy carpets and soft-sided flat foam sleds only, no GTs

• If you bring your own sled you must have it clearly labelled with your name

• You may not take anyone else’s sled

• Sleds must be left outside the door you line up at to come inside

• The school cannot supply sleds at this time

Safety

• The hill will be closed when it is icy

Rules will be followed, or you will lose the sledding hill: individually, by group or whole school – Teachers and

• supervisors will decide – do not argue with them if you are told to leave the area

• Snow STAYS on the ground! NO SNOWBALLS!

• Be kind

• Do not destroy someone else’s snowman

• Do not build snowmen at the bottom of the sledding hills