On thursday, our practicum class made the drive over to Bretton Woods, New Hampshire's largest Ski Resort. First thing we met with a representative of their ski and snowsports. Here we took a tour of their Lodge and all the facilities in their main base including the rock wall and bouldering cave. The lodge looks huge from the inside because of the multiple floors and open space on the inside. We saw all of their cafeteria and eating facilities withing the main base lodge as well. After we left the main base lodge we headed over to maintenance to take a look at and talk about their snowmaking system. We met up with Big Tuna, head of snowmaking and he explained to us their whole system. I was surprised to hear how much the additive cost that they add to the water used for snowmaking at $100 dollars a bag. After snowmaking we headed over to take a look at the canopy tour and talk about their summer operations. The canopy tour being the beginning of their summer ops. After a long talk about guest services, we headed over to tour the Mount Washington Hotel, the oldest wooden structure in new england. The hotel was extravagant and a total change of pace from the resort next door.
This past Sunday, a small portion of us went over to the outing club for trail maintenance and cleanup day. many members of the class were either too hungover or out snowboading to make it, talk about not being commited to your school work. Anyway the few of us that were there put in work cutting and clearing brush from the trails while the LOC guys started up their chainsaws and started dropping trees left and right with no communication going on whatsoever i might add. but whatever no one died. the lodged was organized and cleaned up, trails were cleared, and we got free soda. made for a fun filled day of hard work.
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