Ski Cooper

These are pictures from Dutch Henri- the hill where snowmaking labs took place this past semester. After the wales (snow piles) at the bottom were of a sufficient size they moved the fan gun that was at the bottom, halfway up the hill. At the same time they were using a tower gun at the top of the hill. Then, as the pictures show, once they had a sufficient amount of snow made, they moved the fan gun out of the way and groomed the hill so now the ski club can train.


Monday of this week was orientation for all Ski Cooper employees. Quite a few Colorado Mountain College students are working at Ski Cooper this year. There are CMC students working in the Ski School, Ski Patrol, Lift Ops, and Chicago Ridge divisions. Some of these are Ski Area Operations students working on their internships and others are just students who were looking for a job.

The rest of the week was training for individualized departments, and my department does not have training until tomorrow, so I don't know a whole lot else of what went on. I do know that they did a lift evacuation practice, which was a lot more fun that I thought it would be. Advice to those who tend to do the "I'll just take one more run before I go in for a bathroom break" thing, you will regret that decision when the chairlift stops and they have to do a rope evacuation. Despite the ski area's best efforts, it is not the speediest process.

There was a hypnotist show in the cafeteria on Tuesday.

Recently in Student Government we have discussed museum field trips, the CMC ice wall, science and math tutoring in the residence hall, a ski movie, lazer tag, and a band based out of Denver. If you are interested in adding your input to our meetings, we meet on Mondays at 4:30 in the cafeteria.

Thanksgiving Break is this coming Wednesday-Friday. I'm not sure what I am doing for mine yet- it depends on the snow forecast.

One of the bloggers from the Spring Valley campus in Glenwood Springs made semi-finals for the Microsoft Winter Games Blogging Competition. Read more about it here.

Well, I hope you all have a fun and safe Thanksgiving.