cannon mountain

the ski museum at cannon was pretty cool. i saw the one at vail colorado as well and that one had a lot more things. the thing that stuck out the most to me was the M1 Grand. i was so upset that they had the gun disarmed. its a shame and a crime that they ruined a peice of history. the gun is so pretty and gracefull. they wood work was beautiful. that gun should be in the hands of an enthusist who will love it and put rounds through it. im declaring shanagans on cannon mountain. that M1 Grand diserves better.

Burke

havent blogged in a while. just thinking about the new burke lift and the master plan for burke mountain. i think the new lift is going to improve the mountain greatly. i know that in the two years that i have skied burke i have gone to the top very few times. i used to hate going to the top of burke. that old fixed grip lift was awful. froze my ass all the way up and to took so long. i just wanted to jump off of it half the time. the new detachable getting to the top in 6 minutes is going to be great. the master plan for the mountain looks great as well. burke is a good size mountain. 2000 verticle isnt bad for the north east. if they can develop the base they can turn the place into a profitable vacation spot.

Stowe

Stowe was cool today. it was interesting to see the new lift going in. could have looked at it a lot more if we had more time. very neat experience seeing everything in the middle of construction. the manual labor later in the day could have gone a lot faster if we were supplied with more tools. dom went to town and was like a robot. would have been fun to handle some of the heavy machenery. wish it didnt rain and wish we could have gotten a voucher pass for the work we did. it not like giving our class voucher passes is going to make stowe go out of business. im declaring shananagans on stowe!

sunday river

i was talking to mike today from ramp snowboards and skis. he used to work for rosonal and decided to start his own product line. he started by taking the best featurs from skis and combining them to make what he thinks is an ideal ski. he said what he thinks is important in a business is to take a stance. mike said that companies need to define themselfs. he would compare his boards against any other boards on the market. he thinks the industry is following trends and follows them closely but some older riders still prefer camber so he felt it was important to make some regular cambered boards. cool boards and he wanted to work a deal with our school, 40 percent off skis and 25 percent off of boards.

thursday

my project dealing with the lyndon state outing club is marketing them. they really have nothing to market other than night skiing. since we are using the outing club as our class room i think it would be sweet if lyndon state college took over operations there. they could invest in some snowmaking and a groomer. then they could teach the ski resort majors every aspect of the mountain on there own ski area. they could teach snowmaking, grooming, lift matinence. tey could even turn the outing club into a sort of dc mountain lab type place. they would get the business from the college students to keep the place running and free labor. iv noticed that a lot of kids want to go into terain park disign or matinence. they could get hands on experience and let there minds run wild with whatever they can create and test it themselfs. also it would give them much more in the field experience.