Posts tagged park city mountain resort
Memories in the Wayback Machine
04 months ago
by Eric Hoffman
in article
The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine is one of those cool internet tools that seem to pop up only once in a while and make you go “why haven’t I used that site in the past — months/years?!” I recently had a quick Twitter exchange with @slopefillers and @mehwolfy in which we compared a few ski resort websites from the Archive. After that I had to sneak a peek back to what the resort website looked like when I started managing the web properties back in 2003 – there are a couple of broken images and it’s a really slow load, but it’s all here:
And then, I looked back at the first site archived for PCMR:
I love the links at the bottom to update your browser – particularly the one to update to IE 3 – ah, how time flies.
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Best Wishes and Congrats
01 year ago
by Eric Hoffman
in article
I try to avoid writing about specific proceedings at the resort that I work at, but I do think it’s appropriate in this instance, because on July 1st there were two big moves in personnel at Park City Mountain Resort:
- The President and GM since 2004, Peter Curtis, announced his retirement after 12 years at PCMR. It was a pleasure to work under “PC” and to listen to his deep knowledge and insight of the ski industry and I wish him endless miles of cruising asphalt on his Harley.
- On the same day, Jenni Smith, was promoted to fill Peter’s place. I have a great recollection of interviewing with Jenni when I was hired back in 2003, in her position of HR Manager at that time, and how she obviously shared the passion for winter sports that I have, but also the connection that she had with the resort and so many of the employees.
It’s exciting to see changes at the top of the organization at which you work and it’s all the more exciting when you can see that it’s a great situation for all involved. With the many unique programs that PC put into place like the: Signature Runs, MountainZones, Signature Kids Programs, Personal Mountain Tours and MountainZones to name a few he leaves the resort in a great position to move. With Jenni’s wealth of experience at PCMR, in the community and resort industry, I think that she will easily continue and build upon what we currently have. With that, “Best Wishes, PC” and “Congrats Jenni!”
Photo credit: Flickr user quinn.anya
Where’s the Snow?
02 years ago
Park City Mountain Resort (where I work), and it’s parent company POWDR have made a serious commitment to environmental issues over the past several years as our leadership has taken a firm stand that we must do what we can to help slow the pace of climate change. Personally I think it’s vital for us to do so, but also it part because our business is dependent upon the weather on so many levels.
This morning, myself and many of my fellow employees at the Resort, helped the Park City Foundation put on a photo shoot called “Where’s the Snow?” for which we had over 200 people lined up at the top of Payday Lift at 8200 feet, to show where the predicted snow level will be in the year 2050 if we don’t change our current rate of carbon emissions. This photo shoot was held in preparation of a second, “Save our Snow” meeting that will be held in another month, on September 30, 2009 – check out the 2007 Save our Snow climate change report for a preview of what SOS II will present.
I was amazed that well over 200 people showed up by about 7:30am (on a Saturday!) for the shoot. It’s super encouraging to see so many engaged people in our home town. Here are some “behind the scenes” shots I took, hope to see you at Save our Snow II in another month!
One more week!
02 years ago
by Eric Hoffman
in article
The good word came down this afternoon – we are extending our winter season at Park City Mountain Resort for one more week – now closing on April 19, instead of three days from now, on April 12! It’s kind of odd because I feel at once happy to get the opportunity for another week of local, lift-served skiing, but also a bit bummed, in that I’ve already lined up everything I needed to do for the end of the season and even had a good chunk of my check-list already complete.
I think it’s for the best, because I took the above photo just over a week ago in some of the sweetest conditions of the year (nice turns RD). And, it just doesn’t seem right to be closing after getting about eight feet of new snow in the past two weeks.
So, if you’re lucky enough to be in Park City and up on the mountain during our extra week next week, please say a “thanks” to the person bumping your chair, or checking your ticket because although I know they’re happy to be working an extra week, they were also planning on doing something completely different just a few hours ago!
Week of Recovery
02 years ago
by Eric Hoffman
in video
Nope, I’m not referring to the mini-rally on Wall Street. I’m referring to the fact that I’m ‘recovering’ from helping to put on one of the biggest events of our season, the IDPC (Intelligent Design at Park City). After spending most of Thursday through Saturday away from my desk, I’m just about to caught up, so I thought that I’d post a video showing highlights from the event (it really was quite cool – jumps, to jibs, to superpipe, to quarterpipe):
Another day at the office
22 years ago
by Eric Hoffman
in photos
I spent practically the entire afternoon today in back-to-back meetings and felt as if I were going backwards instead of forwards. However, it’s awfully hard to even think about complaining about a day that starts off like this:
I guess it just goes to say that working for a ski resort is not without some benefits! 
Social media peeps are cool
83 years ago
by Eric Hoffman
in review
The Park City Mountain Resort blog that I helped to launch, and am a contributor to, was reviewed today by social media guru Mack Collier as part of his Company Blog Checkup series and I’m happy to say that we did came out pretty darn good! Of course, I wish we could have aced the “check up,” but I knew that our blog could use some improvement and also that I’m not always the one to see the changes that could or should be made. Here’s the summary that Mack gave us:
Content: 27 (Out of a possible 35) – I like how the blog is currently positioned to cover the current slope conditions. I would like to see more videos as I think these are also a promotional vehicle for the resort.
Comments: 31 (Out of a possible 35) – Very active comments section. I’m not completely sold on bloggers replying directly to each comment in the comment, but the sheer volume of comments from the readers, and the promptness of replies from the bloggers, is impressive.
Posting Schedule: 8 (Out of a possible 15) – Looks to be decent now, but big gaps in the offseason, would try to work on closing those.
Sidebars: 10 (Out of a possible 15) – Pics of the bloggers at top of blog makes this score. Also like the weather-related links.
Total Score: 76 (Out of a possible 100)
The rest of the post is very informative too and has given me some great ideas for continuing to evolve and improve our blog.
It’s well worth mentioning that the reason Mack reviewed our blog, was because of a referral from his friend Sean Howard, who had written a post called The Role of Messy in Social Media on the MarketingProfs Daily Fix blog on which I had left a comment. Sean looked up our blog, thought that Mack might like to review it, and was kind enough to pass along a note which got the ball rolling. This just affirms what I’ve been learning about social media and the people that participate in it – they’re really cool!
Time for fun!
63 years ago
by Eric Hoffman
in video
Here we are, remembering what it’s all about:
Shot this morning, (you can catch a glimpse of me skiing in the red coat behind Nikki)…thanks to Erik for shooting and editing, Dogger for guiding, Matt and Nikki for modeling, JT, Allison and Steph for driving and Billy for letting us get up there!
Back on the slopes!
03 years ago
by Eric Hoffman
in article
Hooray – I got in two runs yesterday morning on our opening day at Park City Mountain Resort. They weren’t full length runs, as I was up with our videographer (great video by Erik Hutchins) and also had a camera and was taking some photos myself (BTW the guy on the right side of this photo has struck the same pose two years running). But it was great to get some sliding in and satisfy myself that the season is ‘officially’ on!
In truth, this has been a slow starting winter for us and much of the Rocky Mountain region. We’ve had unseasonably warm weather and little snow, which leads to a bit of a challenge for a resort marketer, particularly in today’s challenging economic times. At least with the resort open, we now have a positive and tangible message to start putting out, I just hope it snows (a lot) and soon – see you on the slopes!
