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Hi. I’m Ben Benton from Flagstaff, Arizona. I believe that you will enjoy my daily journal from Winter Park, Colorado, Ski Resort during spring break 2000. I left downtown Flagstaff Sunday morning, March 19 with my skis, duffle, laptop computer, and portable 4-person spa, and ended up at Snoasis, a lodge midway up the mountain in Winter Park. My journal will continue through the end of March. You’ll read about Winter Park Ski Resort, Snoasis, Sunspot Lodge, the great people who work here, and anything else I can think of to write about. I’m the author of “National Park Employment Data,” a guide to working in national parks, which is available for purchase on my web site at www.gorp.com/nped/. I’ve been working in national parks and ski areas off and on for over twenty years. Because I want the data in my book to always be fresh, I continually test the concepts, employers, and tips that I provide. I first worked at Winter Park in the late 70s while I was a student at Arizona State University. |
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Tuesday, March 21, 2000 “Unplug it and take in down right now!” Tim came in this morning after his two days off and didn’t particularly like the hot tub in the Pepsi storeroom. Oh well. If I had asked in advance, he would have said no. By putting it up, I had a 50-50 chance it would stay. I got my ski pass and a few rides in before heading back to Snoasis to break down the hot tub. Fortunately, it’s an easy up and easy down; otherwise I wouldn’t have brought it. Columnist Dave Berry wrote a humorous article about ski resorts reporting their own conditions. He said they all report “excellent conditions on powder and packed powder” day after day regardless of reality. About the only ski resort to report “fair to poor” would be one in Costa Rica with people skiing on partially frozen mud, he wrote. What Winter Park refers to as packed powder was actually slush
on the surface this afternoon, with icy spots in the shade. You
never hear that in the ski reports, though. Hey, there’s
a 75 inch base and it’s spring break, so nobody’s complaining.  |
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