Stowe clean-up day

Last thursday for Practicum class sent it over to Stowe to Look over their progress on the new lift process and to do some maintenace on their acess road. First thing we met up with josh who walked us up to the base of the new lift. i was pretty shocked to see that the lift is complete and the maintenancwe guys were doing a weight test on it. They were using barrels of water to simulate people being on the chair. the way the water moves in the barrels pretty acuratly depicts the same motions as people would. This is the final step in the process to actually use the chair to move customers up the mountain. once the state inspector gives them the go-ahead, the chair will be ready for use this season. After a quick chat with the head of lift maintenance, we got back in the vans, and headed up the access road where our rakes ang leaf blowers where waiting for us. our task was to rake and blow all of the leaves out of the drainage ditches along the side of the road. we went ad it full force with everyone working hard to get it done. it was hard to find a simple way to do it sonce there were so many of us, but eventually we got the hang of it, got a system in place, and went to work. After a couple of hours of work, we got to a stopping point and then headed up to the top of the mountain to check out the lift terminal and new patrol building. after that we spread grass seed and hay around the unloading area of the new lift. after a long day of hard labor, we sent it back to school.