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.