Chili Cook Off

This past Saturday was the Lyndon Outing Club Chili Cook off, This event went over with out a problem. There were many people from the local community who came out to support the cause and enjoy some delicious chili. The main role i played on this day was setting up and judging the skate jam. The jam was great there were tons of people who came out to skate and spectate. the music was brought to us by DJ Stevie B of VSS who also supplied the prizes.

Burke Pad Up or Shut Up

This past Thursday we took a quick trip to Burke and put on all the chair pads for the willoughby chair lift. It was familiar because i put on chair pads over the summer at Bousquet Mountain In Pittsfield, Ma.  Doing this task alone is a nightmare, trust me, ive done it. With the class of 18 like we had this task took an hour and a half, we worked as a team to complete the task as smoothly as possible. We Put 164 chair pads on in less than a half of a day. Good work class

Bretton Woods/ Mt Washington Hotel

On October 28 our class took a trip to Bretton Woods resort ant the Mt Washington Hotel. When we arrived at the mountain it looked like full blown winter for a second. There were snow covered trails and it was actually snowing out. We soon met James the skier services director of Bretton Woods. James was quick to welcome us to the resort and he also gave us a tour of the main base lodge. James was a great resource for guest services information. James also talked about his job and how most of the time his job is helping disgruntled customers, weather it be from getting rentals to fixing a problem at the hotel James does it all. After speaking with James we took a quick walk over to the maintenance building where we had a few words with Big Tuna. Big Tuna is the snow making guru according to Sean Doll. Mr. Tuna told us the basics on snow making and how the proper temperature truly effects snow quality. After we were done touring the resort we took a quick trip over to the Mt. Washington Hotel. The grand hotel is one of the few left standing today, many were lost to fires. We took a quick tour of the premises, we saw the gold room, conference rooms, lobby, the pool, artificial ice rink, and of course The Cave.

Jay Peak more like Sneak Peak

This is Jay Peak's new state of the art indoor waterpark that is set to open on dec 13 2011. On this day i was alson given a tour of the new Hotel on Jay, and let me mell you, it means buisness. the Hotel houses restaraunts, bars, an outdoor pool/hot tub, and ofcource the new waterpark that is connected to the monsterous building.

New England Ski Museum

Last thursday we took a trip down to cannon mtn to the ski museum. this place was full of valuable information. We met Jeff Leich who is the director of the museum. Jeff gave us a presentation on the ski industry and how it came to be in New England. the museum housed such artifacts as old skis, boots, bindings, outerwear, and pictures of old equipment and trail maps. Later that day the class was fortunate enough to be able to ride the tram to the top of cannon where we ate lunch and walked around in the clouds.

Cable splice at LOC

This past winter the T bar leading to the top of outing club hill was damaged ue to error, the ski hill was forced to shut down   for the season. Our practicum class was able to help the lift techs replace a section of wire. The splicing process is a very labor intensive process. it involves removing the wire from the shivs and then removing the section of wire that needs to be replaced, once removed the new section must be un wraped at both ends and then interlocked back together with the existing line. Unfortunatly dur to bad weather and counter weight issues the splice couldnt be completed that day.

Sunday river ski buisness expo

Yes, im a little late but whatever. Last week we attended the snowsports summit at Sunday river resort in bethel maine. it was a great oppertunity to learn more about the buisness side of resorts, also i was able to meet many important ski area gurus who filled my brain with many things to think about.
i was able to speak with companies such as:
Chairkid/ Neveplast
Rtp Systems
Efx Balance systems
Pisten Bully
Rossignol

The company that stood out the most that day to me was Pisten Bully. The brand spankin new cats that were sitting outside the confrence room were really an eye catcher. Pisten bully has implemented a few new helpful tools on there latest modle cats. for instance, they offer both stick and wheel controlled cats, they recently added a higher quality wider track to both sides to add stability and traction, and also a new sleek tiller design. It seemed as though that more and more mountains are switching to Pisten Bully.

Day 1 @ LOC

Yesterday at the outing club there were some big plans in the works. There is talk of a gnarly fall festival incluing a skate jam, bon fire, and massive amounts of pumpkins. i think this event will bring alot of attention to the lynon outing club and also the mountain rec department at lsc.

its almost fall kids, do you know what that means

the first post should be proper

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