Burke Practicum Saturday 1/28

For this day of practicum, I spent my last day with the park crew. We started off with the usual routine and met at the mid-burke patrol station at 8am. We gathered the park rakes and hiked up to the top of the park. upon inspection the morning prep today proved to be a lot more difficult than than what i had seen before. Because of the freezing rain the night before, all of the rails and boxes had a layer of ice on them that needed to be scraped off. Sam and i went to work on scraping all the features while Steve mahon and Connor Osullivan tented to the lips and landing. Scraping the ice took alot of elbow greese and took a little longer than i would have expected. Sam and I broke out quite a sweat. we finished up prepping the park just after the lift started spinning so we had to work fast in order to get everything ready before guests started coming through. Once the morning prep was over, Sam and I went on park patrol and kept on eye on everything making sure it was holding up. Since this day was particulalry busy, we saw a lot of bombholes on landings that need to be fixed throughut the day. at around 1:00 we did a rake run and smoothed out all th lips making sure to fll in the ruts that were created throughout the day. From now untill the end of the day, we went back on park patrol untill it came time to wrap everything up and close the park for the day. Today the park took quite a bit of maintenence to rebuild the lips because of all of the skiing and riding the park saw on this busy day.