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.