Burke Febuary 3-4

I arrived at Burke bright and early on friday and met up with Brian, the Lift manager at the maintenance shop. Here Brian instructed me to head over to the Mid-Burke express to start my day. Once i got down to the lift i met up with Zollie, one of Burke's fine lift operators. Zollie went through the whole system with me and showed me how to operate the lift. Someone needs to be at the pedestal at all times weather it be inside the shack or at the one outside. someone needs to be in reach of the stop button. Before the lift opened i set up some fencing to make the lift lines and keep everyone in order. Also we pushed some snow around and put a nice base on the loading area which we did periodically throughout the day as it got skied off. I spent most of the morning scanning tickets and running the lift a little bit. at around noon i headed up to to check things out where i hung out with kyle the lifty. there is not a whole lot to do up there unless something happens. This lift is a top drive and you can only speed it up from the top. This lift is pretty effortless to run, there is no need to bump chairs or anything like that so the job can get pretty boring, but it is always important to pay attention just in case something happens.

On saturday, we were all on the events crew beacuse the Dashney Mile Style slopestyle event was going on this day. in the morning, we prepped the park like we usually would on park crew which took a little more work than usual beacuse of the new snow we got overnight. it was important to pack down all the lips to keep them firm for the compettition. we did a lot of slide sliping in the morning in order to fix the quickly forming ruts in the new snow. we also set everything up for the jam including roping off the park and bringing up all the sound equipment as well as tables an chairs and a tent. durring the jam some of us judged and made sure the features were holding up. At the end of the day we tore everything down brought it all back down the mountain. also we did the final prize ceremony which concluded the contest.