Black and Blue

On Thursday March 19th I went to mount snow and skied down my second blue trail (intermediate) and at first I thought that it was extremely steep when I was going up The Blue Bird. However on my way down the first set of large hills it wasn't as steep as I thought it was going to be. I thought that I was going to fall but I didn't fall once. During the second set of hills it was less step and so I wasn't nervous at all then out of nowhere there was a trail that you could choose through a couple trails and we accidentally chose a black diamond and I never realized it till I got to school the next day. After the black diamond trail I just cruised down the rest of the hill and I found it easier after a while. That day I learned I could ski on more advanced trails then what I have done before. After lunch we went on Long John and on my way down I pulled off to the side and out of nowhere I got hit by a snowboarder and didn't get hurt whatsoever so I got back on my skies and skied down the mountain. We never had an interview but instead we had a scavenger hunt and me and Christian found everything but the hardest was finding the salt for some reason but luckily we got back the fastest and sorta won even though there was no way of winning That day I had a blast and can't wait till next week

-Phillip Gilbert Jr
March 19th 2015.

Meeting with Heather from Mount Snow Childcare

PEAK Mount Snow Scavenger Hunt

bams peak scavenger hunt

base first aid	picture of entrance
tumbleweed chair (how many cable wheels in the loading structure)	total number of wheels --------------
clock tower building – west side (3rd floor HR)	job application
clock tower – west side guest services	pass holder chain
clock tower – west side ticket prices (weekday) total price of a family of 5 (two adults, one 14 year old, one 12 year old , and one 4 year old)	total price here (show your work on back of sheet) ----------------
main base lodge fireplace	picture of fireplace
main base lodge first floor bathrooms name of closest business	name of business here --------------------------------------------------
demo of bluebird chair (within sight of main base lodge and waffle cabin)	selfie of group sitting in chair
cafeteria - main base lodge cost of PB and J sandwich	cost here
cafeteria - main base lodge cost of cheeseburger	cost here
cafeteria - main base lodge cost of bottle of water	cost here
main base lodge	a fork and a salt packet
discovery center – rental shop the first name of one employee, the name of the town they were born in (and country if applicable, and their favorite food	name town, country favorite food

Meeting with Jason Pearl with Lift Operations

Meeting with Mark and Carl from Ski Patrol

Week 5. For week 5 we interviewed the safety patrol. The older of the two men had been working there for two years as for the younger it was his first but they both have had previous experience with ski patrol before. The older man was a skier as for the younger man was a snowboarder. Growing up they loved to ski/snowboard and they also loved to help people so when they went into college and then now they both work at Mount Snow. In the beginning we had to get a fellow student on to the backboard because he was acting hurt. We did it safely and he had fun. The best part of the day was when I and another fellow student got to ride on a rescue toboggan on the way down some of the mountain and that was a blast but you get a lot of snow in your face on the way down the hill because there snowboard was sending the snow into our face. At the end we had a person in our groupe want to sign up for the job, but he was too young and so he is going to try for it when he’s older.

• Phillip Gilbert Jr

Week 5

Mount Snow Ski Patrol Website

Meeting with Dave Meekers from the Marketing Department

Week 4
For week 4 we went to the marketing director, the man who does all the marketing things such as Facebook, Twitter, Vimeo, Instagram, Foursquare and YouTube. He is a skier and he hadn't skied for very long and when he got the job. He started to ski more often and started to get better and better. That week I had an instructor who was #1 in the world in women's downhill skiing. It was extremely hard to keep up to her when she was going slow let alone when she was going fast. The guy who is the marketing director loved technology and loved skiing so he put the two together and started working for Mount Snow.

-Phillip Gilbert Jr

Week 4

mount snow website

mount snow magazine

summit live camera

Meeting with Sam Atwood, Grand Summit Hotel Manager

Week 3 In week three we want to the hotel at Mount Snow nad we learned all sorts of stuff about it. For example e there cheepest room one there slowest night is at least 100 dollars and they have the suite and that goes for a lot more a night.Then have a person who lives in the Hotel he pays rent and all the other stuff  that other people have to do when they have a house. At the hotel they have a pool some indoor and some outdoors and its the same pool and they have a workout room right next to the pool. The pools seams to be mostly heated.They also have an arcade on the second floor and its got an asortment of games. My favorite part was going to the room that looked like a large apartment in a way.

-Phillip Gilbert Jr

Week 3.

Meeting with Day Franzen, Freestyle Terrain Manager

During week 2 we visited the manager of the Snow Cat. His name was Day and he runs Carinthia(a ski/snowboard park) with the snowcat crew.He has 12 snowcats and about 18-20 people working for him and they work day and night to work on the park.His crew helps run the park by making the jumps.He actually began the park with drawings and that led him to what he does today. He is sponsored by North Face.And the finale piece of news is actually a story about him falling in a 15 foot crevasse in Alaska in a snow cat. That would scare me half to death he stayed calm and got out after help.

- Phillip Gilbert Jr

Week 2

Meeting with Randy Barrows, Head Snowmaker

During the first week at Mount Snow the group went to the snow manager named Randy. He taught them about how the lifts have a diesel backup engine. He works the whole year summer through winter. His employees work twelve hour shifts starting at 7 am and end at 7 pm which is longer than most other jobs which usually last 8 hours. He has two hundred and fifty three. Each one costs one thousand dollars an hour running them with an hour if they're all on its a total of two hundred fifty-three thousand dollars an hour so if they have them on for 24 hours it will costs over six million dollars(six million seventy-two thousand).To put that in prospective u could get over twenty thousand Iphone 6+s. He has twenty people working for him and they all work 12 hour shifts.And the finale piece of info is that the computer he uses costs one hundred eighty thousand dollars.

-Phillip Gilbert Jr
Week one report at Mount Snow

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