Bretton Woods hobbits 1/28/212

On Saturday I was in hobbits. Overall, it was really awesome and fun! The hobbit building addressed sustainability one way by recycling the name tags used during the lessons. A lot of name tags are used a day by the kids so that is a lot of plastic. The hobbits center services a lot of kids and families everyday, and makes it more convenient for families to ski. For example, the nursery makes it so parents can ski all day without worrying about their children. Lessons also give kids the chance to learn and make new friends at the same time. When it came to safety one thing stood out. The parents wold have to show these id tags in order to pick p their child. if they did not have one they did not get the kid. This kept the kids safe from being stolen. Hobbits benefits the guests by again allowing them to drop off their kids for a couple hours and have fun skiing alone. This program supports  the employees by giving them a paying job. It is also a very rewarding job getting to see the young ones learn to ski!! Hobbits benefits the owners by obviously making them a lot of money, and also bringing new people into the sport and industry. Overall it was an amazing day. I really had a lot of fun and did not even want to leave! I cant wait to be with lifts next week and learn even more!!

Bretton Woods rental shop 1/20 - 1/21

This weekend i was in the rental shop. It was really awesome, fun and I learned alot! The rental department had a couple ways that dealt with sustainability. One way I saw was that the employees recycled papers. The would sometimes print on the back of papers already used. this would save alot of paper from being used up. The second thing i noticed was that in the rental shop there were 3 recycle bins for bottles. This allowed the resort to recycle all bottles. these bins are important because they prevent people from throwing their bottles everywhere. when it came to service the rental shop deffinately has alot of it. They help people get their equipment either ski or snowboard in a timelt efficient manner. The employees in the rental shop have their own system which works very well to get the customers their equipment as fast as possible. It kind of reminded me of an assembly line. First the customer would go to the computers to put in their information like age, weight, height ect. Then that form would print out at the desk where the customer would pay. Next they were sent to the next counter to pick up their boots. Then to the next counter to get their skiis then off the were. This system was really awesome and easy to understand. When it came to safety rentals really take it seriously. The main thing i noticed was when Tanner an employee was filling out an incident report because some girl got hurt on one of the shops snowboards. this first of all keeps guests safety because they make sure the snowboard did not cause the accident. The report also covers the rental shop and makes sure they are safe from legal actions. it was really awesome seeing how the did this.
The way the rentl shop benefited the guest was by providing them with equipment so they could try skiing or snowboarding. they also give the guests and experience of watching how their skiis and boards are adjusted. the rental shop benefits the employees by first giving them alot of hours to make money, and the also get ride breaks. this means on their breaks they can go take a couple runs for free. the employees really like this!! The rental shop benefits the owner by making them alot of money. because customers can rent equipment anyone can come ski or snowboard. This makes the owners alot more money. Overall the weekend went really awesome! I learned alot and met alot of new great people!! Everyone was so nice and showed me everything i needed to know to work at a rental shop!

Week 12/29/11

This week on Tuesday a guest speaker came in to talk about snow making. I am really upset i missed it because i was sick! i really wanted to see the presentation because snow making is really interesting. On Thursday of this week, we talked about next semester and each mountain specifically. I learned that websites like to lie about what they have at their resorts. For example a website says Burke has 3 parks and it only has 1. That was a big lie! false advertisement. lol We also talked about the syllabus for next semester and requirements. I am really looking forward to being at Bretton Woods when I return from break! It's going to be really fun and i hope i learn a lot. This week on Friday, our group got together and started our final presentation. We finished it and just have to present it now! Hope it goes well!

burke and stowe

On Tuesday we went to Burke to watch their new lift towers fly in. We did not get to see them though because the helicopter was still in Maine :( that was a bummer.. On Thursday we went to Stowe to help them out with clearing their drainage ditches on the side of the road. I learned that trees have a lot of leaves and all of them like to fall in the ditch that I have to rake. It was fun though. I found a lot of little creates like lizards and frogs. After we were done raking we went to the top to see the finished ski patrol building which was absolutely gorgeous! I would live in their. They even have a huge flat screen TV that their doctors bought them which was really nice. After that we layed down hay under and around the new lift where they had to dig. This protected and covered the soil. Then we got to go to their gigantic maintenance building and see their new groomers! They were really really awesome.. I would like to drive one one day. Any hoo, Overall it was a great day and i can wait to go back and try out their new lift!

Burke and chili cookoff

This week, our class went to Burke Mountain to help them put back on their seat pads on the lift. This task for about 6 men would have took about a day and a half they said, but our class of 18 did it in an hour and a half! We did it so fast because we had a really good system going on and everyone was working together well! Shauna and I, were untangling bungee cords the entire time and handing them to the boys so they did not have to do it themselves. That way they could already have the pads ready before the lift came back around. I also learned how to run the lift and stop it. That was my favorite part because i like pressing buttons :). Overall the day was actually fun and very educational. Yesterday (Saturday) we also had the chili cook off. It went really well because we were all prepared and very organized. I ran one of the outside games and all of the kids loved it! Overall, we raised a lot of money for LOC and i had a lot of fun with everyone!

Bretton Woods

On Thursday the 28th our class took a trip to Bretton Woods ski area. When we arrived we met James the ski services manager. He gave us a little background about the area and a nice tour around the lodge. We got to see the new rock climbing wall they installed which was really awesome! Next we went to the maintenance building and learned a little bit about their snow making. I learned that snow making is a lot more complicated than i thought. After that we went back and talked to James again about guest services and what he does as his job. he talked about how he pretty much gets paid to listen to upset guests. I thought his information was very good and i knew what he was talking about because being a cashier and hostess at Denny's i get the same thing. I would really like to do my practicum at Bretton woods next semester so that i can work with James in customer service because i love helping people. After we were done talking, we took a shuttle over the the mount Washington hotel. I learned this hotel was built in 1902 and there are many famous people that stayed there over the years like Babe Ruth and such. I also learned that Thomas Edison put in the electricity for the place years ago. That was soo cool!! Overall it was such a good informative day and i cannot wait to go back hopefully!

Jay Peak

Yesterday our class made a visit to Jay Peak. We got to take a tour of all of their new projects from their new waterpark to the hotel. The new water park was huge! it had a flow rider surfer thing, and a water slide that almost does a complete flip. I also learned that they have the longest indoor lazy river in the united states. Their ice rink was also amazing. The way it was built is just awesome. I like how they had the adirondack seats looking over the ice. The biggest thing i learned is that it took jay over 50 million dollars to build all of their new projects!! I just cant wait to go their and experience the new water park myself!!