burke mt march 23

worked in maintinence on friday at burke mountain. spent the morning doing some spring cleaning and organizing hoses and groomer tracks. then helped with cleaning and regreasing the bearing on one of burkes cats. its very important to maintain the equitment at a resort. the better kept something is the more years you will get out of it. this saves money. also things break and need to be fixed. when it rains, it pours. im doing my last day of practicum this friday comming up due to being absent because of a baseball game. which we lost. because we suck.

Burke Mtn

this week was basically getting the park ready to be dismantled. with all the snow melting and this being the last weekend, it was very important to make sure that features were safe and secure in the ground. once wobbely rails were removed, the area where they were had to be raked and made safe. the lips to the rails got smaller every day and the jumps got smaller every day. there was still a lot of snow on the trails for the mountain to be closing. since most of the snow was man made, there is a lot of waisted money on the trails. burke was also starting to pick trash up that people dumped through out the year. steve came down with a couple large trash bags from dashney alone. people are slobs. they dont take care of the place that they enjoy. if the trails wernt cleaned the mountain would be a dirty trash pile and another paradise runed.

Burke

this was my first week at burke. day one i was working in the terrain park. it was a very eventfull day. the night before there was very warm weather and rain so the next day a lot of the rails were loose and there were a lot of ruts in the park. the day was filled with cutting lips and filling in the sides of rails. we would get the wet snow from the woods to use on the rails. fun day and a needed job. parks need to be maintained and kept safe. a good park can bring in more visits and a well maintained park can cut down on injuries. the second day i was in ski school. burke's ski school get a lot of ski lessions supposed to snowboard lessions. burke makes a lot of money in the their ski school. the deal with a lot of LTR and learn to ski lessions. plus they dont pay their instructors very much. they have some good programs but it can be a very hectic stressfull day.

last day at Bretton woods

friday was our last day at BW. had a lot of fun there but glad its over. so happy that i can wake up late and still make it to burke on time. on friday i rode with ben and sean. sean took us on a little tour of the mountain and brought us through some rocks. he also almost killed a kid who was standing in a very not smart place. killing kids while skiing is not very substainable for a mountain. people tend to frown when kids are involved. we also went to the very exciting sledding hill that we had to walk up. after one run of that i was over it. caught a ride back to the mountain in the back of tims pick up truck after he clocked out. enjoyed working the main event the most during my time there. good times were had.

last weekend at BW

i was in hobbits on friday. very nessecary program at a mountain. they make a lot of money giving lessions and teaching kids how to ski. by teaching kids how to ski they are creating future customers. also they give parents a reason to go if they have kids they dont want to ski with. just drop your kids off for the day and ski on your own. hobbits is like a baby sitter half the time. on saturday i was working in the park. i worked the main event competition and had a blast. loved shaping lips and jumps. parks draw people to the mountain. they give people new chalenging terain. they do cost money but i feel they make that back with skiier visits and competitions. i deffinatly feel they would be more substainable of the big jumps and features were made out of dirt during the summer so the mountain would not need to blow as much snow. it would cut down on the options in the park slightly but it would save money.

ski patrol bretton woods

ski patrol was very enjoyable at bretton woods. learned what each call means and what needs to be done to open and close trails. loved the fresh powder runs before the mountain opens to the public. its a very important job on the mountain but its not profitable. the mountain has to pay the patrolers and does not recieve any money in return. however the job does have to be done so it esential to have the patrolers at the mountain. i feel like its one of thoes jobs that has to be had but doent help profit. sean doll was late again on saturday again! ben set off a car alarm first think in the morning on friday. shanagans happened and good times were had.

bretton woods rentals

rentals was very busy on saturday. there are many people who want to ski but dont have their own equitment or forget their own equitment. this is where rentals come into play. they are very substainable. once again sean doll was late. again! they he stole a donute from the bretton woods rental employees. also he slammed the roof box cover on my fingers and laughed about it because he thought it was funny. he almost cut my fingers off. but i was very glad we got to sleep in on friday. i would have died if i was in rentals for 2 days. there was so much to day and it was swarmed with people. fun times in the park after that though.