Last Day at Stowe 2/17

We spent our final day at Stowe Mountain Resort this past Friday alongside Scott Reeves. What turned out to be an enjoyable day started out by recharging our cards and gearing up to meet Scott at the quad. We took some runs around the mountain with Mike Manley, Scott, and a representative from HKD snowmaking equipment. They were observing the current equipment and discussing what was likely going to be replaced or discarded at the end of the season. Deciding between 10, 20, and 30 feet towers was the main objective of running through the trails with the rep, as well as giving an effort to observe as much that was going on the mountain as possible. Dangerous conditions, safety hazards, and interacting with guests were all a part of combing through each run. We came in at 11 for the daily meeting between all the mountain operation managers like usual, and got to hear about the preparation taking place for the upcoming holiday weekend. Every employee on the mountain is impacted during President's Day weekend and ensuring that they were all ready was the main focus of that particular meeting. Afterwards Scott informed us he was booked with meetings and let us have the rest of the day to ride by ourselves, which was great. The snow was soft and we took full advantage of our passes taking runs until we were all agreeably tired. I'll never forget the time I got to spend at Stowe, and definitely look forward to riding there sometime in the near future. Every employee we ran into and got to interact with was pleasurable, and we were able to take away helpful information from each department we spent time in. In addition, Mike Manley was a great help and consistently had answers to all of our questions, as well as the rest of the mountain ops staff.