Week 11: Raking at Stowe

Tuesday:

We met at the outing club at early where we were told we would begin to put our master plans into action. We were told to capture the outing club at all angles, so we all went about the area and took various pictures.

 We then reconvened at school with John Deleo and learned some of the basics of SketchUp. 

Thursday:

We went on a trip to Stowe where we met one of the two risk managers, Jack. We brought us up the toll road and set us up with rakes and leaf blowers. We were asked to clear out the leaves along the toll road. 

The reason it is important to do this is because if the leaves stay there when it gets cold they with freeze in place and mess with the drainage system, and that will end up costing the resort a lot of money. 

Week 10: Bretton Woods

On Tuesday I unfortunately missed class. I heard we went to burke listened to a few people talk about the new snowmaking and what they do at the resort. Then were anticipating seeing the new snow guns fire, but they weren’t ready, so class was let out.

On Thursday we went to Bretton Woods. One of the most exciting parts was driving up, and entering a little snowstorm. 

We got the grand tour. We first heard Alexa and James talk about what they do at the resort and how they got to where they are.

  Alexa is the head of mountain operations. She showed us to the maintenance building and then one of the lifts. James is in charge of guest related business. He showed us around the entire inside.
 Then we went to the Omni Mount Washington Hotel, where our professor Sean Doll gave us a little tour. We got to go into room 314 which was deemed haunted which was also rather cool.

Week 9: No Helicopter

Tuesday: This class was short, we met at the outing club at 1 and went over how everything was going to happen for the skate jam.
Thursday: We met at the outing club again but at 9 and were all anticipating a helicopter. John Hinds from DART a helicopter service spoke to us about his job, what the business does, and about helicopters. He spoke about the necessity of this form of transportation and how and when it can be most utilized. DART is a medical helicopter team for the New Hampshire and Vermont area, they are called in and respond to all sorts of events. He told us about the dangers of helicopters. Then at the end of this presentation we found out to helicopter wasn't coming :(