Last day at Jay: Ski Patrol and Ski School

For my last rotation at Jay I shadow a Ski patroller in the morning and a snowboard instructor in the evening. When I arrived at ski patrol they didn’t have much work for me so they sent me out to shadow a patroller open his assigned trails. It took us 3 runs to check his 8 trials. In order to ok the trials we had to make sure there were proper signage and no dangerous skiing and riding terrain. After that was done I was set off for some free riding before I had to meet at the top patrol shack for 10:45. It was a slow day for ski patrol so I just hung out with Ziggy until lunch time. For the second half of the day I was with ski school. I do have previous year of instructing experience under my belt so I did understand most of what goes on in ski school. They had me shadow Joe Jones who is a level 3 instructor and is assui certified to certify other instructors. Joe is a very high rank instructor and I learned some good tips to teaching surface tricks. Friday was a pretty laid back day for me. I didn’t learn much but the tips I got where very helpful. Overall my experience at Jay was awesome and I will definitely keep them at the top of possible employment.

Jay Peak Pump House

I have worked the nordic center, ice haus, customer service, food and beverage, and hotel. But i have learned the most after spending the day in the pump house water park. I have worked at a ski area for 4 years now and have learned about my previous areas of managerment. The water park was a new addition to my recreation management experience. I got to spend the day with Jason, one of the water parks supervisors. It was very interesting learning about the indoor water park energy consumption and efficiency. One thing they do is recycle the ice rink snow into the water park. Jay is also saving money by creating there own chlorine. The Indoor water park keeps a consistent 85 degrees and has an assortment of rides and attreactions. They have two tube slides,  two body slides, a flow rider, a aqua loop, hot tubes, activity pool, kiddy pool, and the longest indoor lazy river. My favorite ride is the flow rider. Its fun to surf in vermont, plus it rips everyones clothes off. The day i worked the pump house the first thing i did int he morning was test the aqua loop. The water park was designed by chris who also designed hurricane hobor at six flags. The water park looks perfect but has run into some problems that needed to be fix. For example the Thursday before my day in the pump house i was told that the water park reached over 110 degrees due to the sun baking on the roof. The way the staff handled the heat was with the retractable roof. They opened the roof and cooled the park down. I also got to spend some time in the arcade. The arcade seems like a really simple job but really cool to play arcade games all day. The new Pump House water park at Jay Peak was a great addition and i can see Jay making a great profit from it.