and on high-traffic weekends they were known to rescue as many as 30 people, compared to the one or two the average lifeguard might make in a typical season at a pool or lake. "It was legitimately scary", one of the lifeguards recalled. Mountain Creek continues to operate this attraction as the "High Tide Wavepool" but made the pool much shallower. On the Aqua Skoot, invented by Ken Bailey in the early 1980s, riders would carry a hard, solid plastic sled up to the top of the ride, go down a slide consisting of rollers akin to those found in factories, warehouses, or assembly lines, and end up in a pool that in most areas was no deeper than a puddle. The idea of the ride was, once the sled hit the water, to skip across the water like a stone. To do this, the rider had to be in a certain position, leaned back. If the rider was not in this position, the sled would sink into the water as soon as it hit the pool, flinging the rider off head-first, which often resulted in head injuries (conversely, a rider who leaned back in 1995 overdid it and suffered serious head injuries falling off the back of the sled, one of many to whom this happened, according to former employees). Other times, riders would be leaving the pool only to have others crash into them as they were riding. This ride consisted of parallel slides originally. At some point in the mid-1980s, a third slide was added. Each slide was long. The slides were removed when Intrawest took over the resort in 1998; the pool was redesigned into the Lost Island River, which is part of the children's section. The platform/tower riders climbed to ride the Aqua Skoot became the Treetop Cabanas in 2003. Kamikaze was the more "tame" water slide near the Geronimo slides. It was blue and featured several drops and rises. Riders would lie on their backs with their arms and legs crossed and go down a "chute" that pitched steeply at first and then went up and down several times before ending in a pool. It survived the Mountain Creek redesign. but was removed and scrapped following the 2009 season. The Kayak Experience was an imitation whitewater course that used submerged electric fans to agitate the water above. Frequently, the kayaks got stuck or tipped