Middlebury College is building a new lift.
Video of Flying Concrete up for Lift Tower BasisMiddlebury college is upgrading its 40 year old double chair to a new triple chair.  See Middlebury College Flies Concrete Up a Ski Mountain to Build a New Lift

Both You and I Can Control Risk
By BeckyAurora ThompsonFor the past 10 weeks, I have been taught how, as a ski area employee, I can eliminate, avoid, decrease the severity or frequency, manage, insure, transfer, or ignore the risk of an accident occurring.While I can do my part as a ski area employee to control risk, it should not be entirely my responsibility. As a guest, you have control over risk also.Ski areas try to decrease the severity of accidents by telling guests to slow down. They do this through the use of signs and the Slow Patrol. However, you can do your part by listening to the Slow Patrol, which will make everyone's day better. If you

Korean Ski Resorts
By Taeho ParkColorado has been famous for long time because of its great environment for winter sports. The land is located in the Rocky Mountain area where it is covered by fresh powder snow every winter, and since it snows a lot, Colorado's mountains and fields have become a skier's paradise. Basically, every winter sport, imaginable, can be enjoyable in this blessed land. However, there are also plenty of ski areas in the world, and they operate in quite a different style in contrast to Colorado. Ergo, much can be compared between Asian ski areas, specifically Korean ski areas, and Colorado ski areas.

Ski Area Operations Risk Management
By Cory GardOne of the most important classes you can take while participating in the Ski Area Operations program at CMC is Risk Management.  The majority of classes offered are intended to introduce you to the various aspects of ski area operations and are followed with labs and On the Job Training (OJT) hours. Risk management is not something that you want to learn OJT, being proactive is always the best practice.  Most upper level management routinely preaches safety and then pushes productivity and cost reduction.Risk management involves both the guests and employees. As a manager it may become easy to get caught up in day to day ope

Ski Area Operations at Colorado Mountain College
By Zac SchrieberWhen you say you are going to be going to college for Ski Area Operations degree who are not involved in the ski industry just laugh and say I didn't know there was college for ski bums. It's true though, everyone in the program loves the skiing or riding so much we all want it to be a part of our lives forever. Even when you explain to other "normal" college students they just laugh when you tell them you are driving a snow cat or making snow for class but they do not realize the experience SAO students get and how well respected the program is in the industry. Anyone graduating from the program has more experience than somebody trying to join the industry