Cannon Trip

On our trip to Cannon our sole purpose was to go visit the New England Ski Museum. When we got to the museum the pictures of the ski lifts, snowmaking, and the groomers that they had. The museum was full of different trophies, clothing, and all different types of skis. Their were skis that looked like they were the first ski ever skied, and their was one probably for every year after their oldest ski. After checking out the old equipment that was used we then went and say a power point about the history of skiing in New England, and how they cut trails out. After checking out the museum we then took the Tram up to the top of Cannon where we went out to the observation tower but it was too windy and rainy to be out their for very long. We ended the day with a tram ride down to the base.

Stowe Trip

When we went to Stowe for class we ended up checking out their new Dopplemayr lift that is almost complete. Stow is putting a new high speed quad that goes the full length of the mountain. When we went to Stowe the lift towers were complete and placed on the hill already, the top terminal was half way through being complete and the bottom terminal was just about done. Stow is also putting a building in next to the lift to house the lift chairs on days that will be extremely cold and snowy and icy so they dont have to take off the snow and ice from them. After checking out the new lift we went back to the base and helped the mountain ops at Stowe dismantle the old lift towers that they had taken down to put the new lift up. In the end it was a pretty sweet trip to Stowe.

NEWSS Conference

At the conference I went around to a lot of the vendors that were their. I went to Chairkid ski lifts, I spoke to Maynard Russell. The ski lifts that they make have had more sales in Europe that any where else in the world. Their about 400 of their lifts in Europe and about 40 in the US. I then went and saw that reliable racing was their so I spent some time talking to John Jacobs the president of Reliable Racing. I talked to him for a while about what new stuff they have and how much better it is. Patti Dykman is the office manager at Leitner Poma headquarters. She was telling us that they are putting in 9 new lifts this year. After that I went to a Booth for bracelets, but they are not ordinary bracelets. these Bracelets by EFX are specially designed to make you more balanced while doing anything. CB Vaughn works in the Business Development department for EFX, they are trying to use the bracelets that have RFID chips in them to be the season passes for resorts to increase the simplicity of ticket sales. One of the last people I went to see was Chris Rousseau from NSP or National Ski Patrol. I also went to a seminar on RFID cards,  the speaker was Mike Bisner. He explained that the RFID cards can be placed in a pocket all season with no need to pull it out every time you go to a lift. The RFID cards can maximize your resorts revenue, switch lifts on different days, and also have different access times and areas. Their slogan "One network, One partner", with their new FOS software it can take care of most of the sales at the resort like ticketing, reservations, retail, food, and rental. The NEWSS Conference was pretty cool and I wouldn't mind going back another time.

First day at a ski area

First day at a ski area was awesome. Learned about different scenarios that could take place at a ski are and what departments are used to make sure everything is ok at the ski area. Learned that our class is going to make the Lyndon Outing Club the best place for events and the best place to ski or ride. Our ideas might be stretching it a bit but with time the Lyndon Outing Club will be a great place to go and ski or ride.

The test

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