This past weekend was the Outdoor Emergency Care Refresher class. It consisted of Ski Cooper employees, Chicago Ridge employees, and a couple of Colorado Mountain College students who are not currently employed with a ski patrol but wanted to keep their certification current. We reviewed spinal immobilization and backboarding procedures, helmet removal, and did a couple of scenarios. We also went over pelvic injuries and then practiced using a pelvic splint and then a simple sheet to control the injury. The pelvic splint is really neat because it's like a belt and it clicks when it's at the proper tension, and then you just have to maintain that tension while you fasten it. Using a sheet took a little more thinking in order to maintain the tension through the use of knots.
Sunday morning I woke up to my car being covered in snow. After some frustration at my windshield wipers for not clearing my windshield to the degree I wanted them too and my procrastination of not buying a windshield scraper/brush, I finally got the snow brushed off.
Then on Monday I went to Alco and bought a windshield scraper/brush. Turns out that the official name of it is a Mallory Snow Brush. Usually we have student government meetings on Monday but due to three representatives being absent, we did not have the necessary 2/3rds to vote.
Tuesday in Snowmaking lecture we reviewed for our final exam. That evening our two snow guns were fired up and have been running continuously since then because temperatures have been in the low teens all week. Tuesday evening in Principles of Accounting I, we learned about payroll. This involved figuring out regular pay and overtime pay, unemployment, income tax, Social Security tax, Medicare tax, and other withholdings such as union dues and medical insurance. We then completed entries in the General Journal related to payroll taxes. We are learning about payroll taxes again this coming week.
Thursday we took our final exam in Snowmaking. The people who normally sit in the front row decided to be over-achievers and get there ridiculously early to review as a group, so those of us that normally take the seats in the back, were in the front row. We are jokingly blaming those that took the back row seats if we did less than spectacular. Although, in all honesty, it's probably my own fault for not knowing what the name is of the piece of equipment that keeps oil out of the snowmaking system.
Today, Friday, attendance at Risk Management was less that outstanding. Nine of us had shown up 15 minutes into class and half of those were ready to leave when the professor hadn't shown up after 15 minutes. However, as they were walking out of the classroom and down the hall, the professor walked out of the elevator. Then we had a quiz since so few people showed up. Probably the easiest quiz I will ever take- if I don't know what town I go to classes in, I should really start figuring some things out.
This weekend is Halloween. I've heard students talking about going to Steamboat or Boulder for weekend festivities.
Also this weekend is the Ski Cooper job fair.
Some pictures of snowmaking taken earlier this week:
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