Burke and Stowe: Round 2

So we got anther chance to venture back to Stowe and Burke, but this time our experience was a little different. First ill tell you about Burke. We went to burke not to talk to any important people or look at new projects but to do some manual labor. The guys at burke had us putting on all 165 seat pads on the willoughby chair lift. There was one person running the lift and two teams of 4-5 bungie cording the pads onto each chair. I gotta say, after the 60th chair we were getting pretty quick at it. It took us roughly about an hour and a half to complete all 165 chairs. I kept reminding everyone, "The faster we go, the faster we go!" So our second round at burke wasn't the funnest, but we made the best of it and learned some valuable lessons.

We also took another trip back to Stowe. Like Burkes round 2, we found out that we were going to be doing some manual labor. We show up at Stowe and they inform us that we will be clearing the trenches along the access road. As we started to go up the hill I was trying to fathom why we had to do this pity work, but nothing really made sense. So I asked our supervisor the reason for racking the leaves out of the trench if its just going to snow soon. His reply was, " If we don't clear these trenches now when spring comes and the trenches are clogged with leave the water will destroy the access road. Which could cost Stowe over 40 thousand dollars to repair. So bye then end of the day i realized that something so easy and simple could save you a really difficult and costly repair. So its important to take care of the little things.

-Drew