No Safe place for your Toddler to learn, UNLESS YOU ARE RICH!! I showed up to start my 5 year old on a snowboard for the very 1st time. We arrived on a beautiful Wednesday afternoon. Our service to purchase $550 weekday season passes was GREAT. The 80's music and professional customer service was spot on. Got geared up and headed to the Magic Carpets with my 5 year old. I ask a staff member how to get into the fenced off Magic carpet area and I was inform this area is only for people who have purchase lessons. After confirming I hear the lady correct, I asked "so where am I able to take my 5 year old and start training her?" Response was, "in between the 2 lifts is a small area good for that." ARE YOU F...ING KIDDING ME? To make matters worse, Bear Mountain has 4 Magic Carpets (large beginners area). So your idea of good customer service is to have me train my 5 year old in a very busy area with a bunch of "young adults" who are smoking whatever in your parking lot? ( I saw 2 different cars smoking in your parking lot) I'm sure you feel safe with the waiver you have everyone sign. But as a small business owner, you must also provide a safe environment within your controls. I can not imagine you winning a law suit given you have 4 areas safe for new riders and not allow paid customers access them. Seriously, shame on you. I was informed that the beginner's area at Snow Summit is open to the public. So I had to kill my 5 year old's excitement, walk back to the truck, remove most of our cloths, buckle her back in, drive 5 minutes, get us dressed again, walk onto Snow Summit, and start all over again. Snow Summit must have better instructors. There the beginner's area is open to the public AND they held private lessons. Regular people work hard to afford $550 passes and everything needed to go to your mountain. You have 4 Magic Carpets areas fenced off at Bear Mountain. Could you please respond on why 1 can not be for regular people? After someone buys your expensive lessons, do you kick them out of the beginner area and make the go "in between the lifts" where there is heavy traffic? At Snow Summit, why are you selling lessons there? To be fair, shouldn't all lesson be a Bear which gives regular people more space in the beginner areas? I moved multiple times at Summit out of respect for the instructors, which I was once 1.