Last night was a fairly typical Monday night. I went to Public Speaking class (Free pool night was just too tempting for most students... there were only 4 of us in class out of the normal 12) and then I hung out with Randi, Marea, and Erin at the front desk while Randi had RA duty.
Ten or fifteen minutes later, Wes was paging through the latest issue of SAM (Ski Area Management magazine), which had a beautiful picture of the Whistler Peak 2 Peak gondola. After brief commentation on an ad for snowmaking, "Mountain Spy" was the next section that deserved commenting. "Mountain Spy" usually consists of an anonomous caller calling a few resorts and posing a question (the one that stands out most in my mind was concerning whether a customer could bring their miniature pony to the resort with them because the pony was their equivalent of a seeing eye dog). There are always the outstanding resorts that are extremely accomidating, and then there are those that are much less accomidating. This issue however, consisted of interviewing skiers and snowboarders on the hill about what effect the economy has had on their skiing/riding habits. Then it was onto looking at a picture of an Ohara snowcat. After that came the real excitement. CMC's very own Patrick Torsell was one of three young men featured in "2009 Recruit Of The Year".
"For the third year in a row, SAM held a contest among ski area management
programs in the U.S. and Canada to identify some of the brightest talent poised
to break into the industry. Here are the top three picks. Check out the full entries online." "So what were the entrants asked? Two questions:
1) What do you think is the most pressing issue facing resorts today and
why?
2) The winter resort industry has an extraordinary opportunity to
capatalize on the excitement and enthusiasm that the 2010 Olympics creates for
skiing and snowboarding. The Olympics draws a TV audience as large as NFL
football and nearly as avid as NASCAR. If you were a resort owner, how
would you take advantage of the 2010 Vancouver Olympic fever during the
2009/2010 season to promote the snowsports experience at your resort?"
Patrick did not win, but we all thought making top 3 was pretty cool. The other two finalists were attending Sierra Nevada College and the University of Denver. After that, as far as I know, the magazine no longer held any excitement (looking at it now, all the rest of the magazine held was finishing articles that had been started earlier in the magazine).
Sure enough, Marea soon got hungry because she hadn't yet had dinner, so we went on an expedition into Leadville and got to Subway about 30 seconds before it closed. We then returned to the dorms with our sandwiches and Randi's milkshake and box of Reese's Pieces. Sure enough, someone had stolen the spot that I was sitting in, so Erin, Marea, and I, being the extremely talented girls that we are, managed to fit onto 2 chairs. Along with being extremely talented, we can also be extremely crazy at times, hence why two 18-year-olds and a 19-year-old were painting with water colors. Soon the guys that had gone to the pool returned and we had a discussion about Rihanna dating Chris Brown after he allegedly beat her. After the guys took showers so that they no longer smelled of chlorine, we headed into the MPR and piled onto couches and flopped onto beanbags to watch Role Models. Once Role Models was over, we all headed to our rooms because many of us had class this morning.
Well, that's a typical Monday night for you. The rest of the week's nights are similar, but I think Monday is the most interesting night because you never know what is going to happen with the group that ends up being around because we are all so crazy.
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