LEHIGH VALLEY SNOWMOBILE CLUB

1. ✦Recalls / Product Safety News for Sports & Recreation Products
   

2. ✦Pennsylvania's Snowmobile Law 
   

3. ✦Pennsylvania DCNR Snowmobile Safety and Training 
   

4. ✦Snowmobile Safety Awareness Program (Test your knowledge) 

Hypothermia is abnormally low body temperature (below 95 degrees Fahrenheit). Warning signs include uncontrollable shivering, memory loss, disorientation, incoherence, slurred speech, drowsiness, and apparent exhaustion. Medical attention is needed immediately. If it is not available, begin warming the body SLOWLY.

Frostbite is an injury to the body caused by freezing body tissue. The most susceptible parts of the body are the extremities such as fingers, toes, ear lobes, or the tip of the nose Symptoms include a loss of feeling in the extremity and a white or pale appearance. Medical attention is needed immediately for frostbite. The area should be SLOWLY re-warmed.

What is Wind-chill Temperature? It is the temperature it “feels like” outside and is based on the rate of heat loss from exposed skin caused by the effects of cold and wind. As the wind increases, the body is cooled at a faster rate causing the skin temperature to drop. Wind-chill does not impact inanimate objects like car radiators and exposed water pipes, because these objects cannot cool below the actual air temperature.