2022: improve sledding hill safety

[msimerson]

In winter of 2022, we had a child collide with a tree and suffer a concussion. He was wearing a helmet, and an adult was supervising at the top and bottom of the hill.

Ideas

1. buy more plastic barriers and go all the way up the hill with them.
2. remove the trees to the East of the hill. Use rocks and soil removed from the driveway (2022 widen the driveway #13) to build a berm, naturally channeling sledders down the hill and away from trees.
3. ban sledding entirely

Considerations

• The barriers are a great idea, but in the winter of 2022, the snow completely buried them, rending them mostly ineffective.
• Two of the trees that are candidates for removal are close enough to fall and damage the lodge.
• Every year, the trees get bigger around and inch closer to the sledding hill
• Nobody wants to ban sledding.
• BEWARE of heavy equipment on the hill due to drain field!

[msimerson]

• Two trees along the lower edge of the sledding hill have been felled in the summer and fall of 2022. Now that the bottom of the hill is free of trees near the sledding run, we can:
• move the plastic barriers further up the hill, to direct poorly aimed sledders back into the sledding path.