Stowe 3

Hello there everybody. Yesterday our group made our way back over to Stowe to do some work in the guest services department. This consisted of parking just about 20 tour buses and provided information to guests. That lasted for about an hour. After parking the buses, we took a lot of park laps and finally got to hit up Tyro, Stowe's biggest park. Tyro was sick all day even after I managed to dead stop on a close-out rail and get tossed like a rag doll. Other than that the day was great. I'm pretty excited to be doing my first overnight in a groomer next week.

Stowe Round 2

Yesterday my group was at Stowe. We worked with the parks crew all day. While working with the park rangers we learned how to groom and shape lips and jumps the Stowe way. Stowe parks uses an X shape pattern to groom their in-runs. This pattern fills in more gaps and is faster than traditional raking. The parks crew is sustainable because they not only properly groom their park features and re-use snow, but also create every one of their park features. These rails, boxes, and jibs are often constructed out of left over materials. Grooming the park features also, ensures safety to the user, and is just good guest service to the customer. Consumers, employees, and managers benefit from the park crew operations because the crew is offering another service to the guest who visits Stowe Mountain Resort. This means that the guest is happy after hitting the step down and flat bar, the employee is pumped to be able to hit fresh park features, and the manager is happy because guests are buying more lift tickets and passes to be able to ride on these park features.

First weekend at stowe

This past Friday and Saturday myself and a few other students from LSC did some work for Stowe mountain resort. On the first day out group helped set up a race gate and finish line for a NASTAR race course. We then took a few runs and met up with Kurt, the parks director and several employees from the marketing department to help set up fences, a tent, and a pa for that evenings rail jam by the midway lodge. The first day was great. By setting up fencing and helping with odd jobs our class made sure that the rail jam would be safety fenced off from the general public. These jobs also assured resort managers that we are compitent in out work ethic and that the rail jam and race course are safe to use by guests.