Friday: When we arrived Friday I was planning on free riding all day getting to know the Mountain and resort, but I was wrong. Unfortunately two staff members of there terrain park did not show up. So we had to help Kurt the terrain park manager build there large park (Northwave). These employees were volunteer workers so they did not get paid just a free pass for the year. I see how volunteers can be and issue without the motivation of pay. As the day got going I realized that even know we weren’t free riding I was doing something I love. Building features in the park. We did a lot of work that consisted of shoveling, lugging rails, and raking. One cool feature that we had to cut transition into was an Amp energy drink school buss. Yes a full size school bus inside the park. It was really cool. Kurt has been working at Stowe for a while now and understands how to groom parks very well. We worked on that park all day and Kurt let us test ride it before anyone ells, one of the great perks from being a terrain park staff. All in all after being bummed out in the morning the day went really good.
Saturday: The next day went much smoother. Our day consisted of a normal park staffer day and helping out with a Mercedes test drive event. In the morning we fallowed around Burns he was Kurt’s best staffer. We went through each park digging out the new snow from the prior night and raking the take offs. After lunch time we were instructed to go over to the Spruce lodge to help out with a Mercedes test drive. We were the gentlemen who escorted the drivers from the Mercedes booth to the car. It was fun to interact with the customers and make small talk. Everything went very smooth. From 2-3:30 we had to go meet back up with the park staffers for an end of the day rake run. The day was really fun and I got to do a lot of great park riding. While our group was getting ready to leave Kurt was in the ops build and asked me if I would like to work full time for him. I was a little shocked and only thinking about out west so I told him I would definitely think about it. Sean after told me that was the wrong thing to say in that situation. What I should have said was just thank you very much and kept it short and simple. The first week at jay went really good for me and I am looking forward this weekend.
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