The lifts will start turning for the 2009-2010 winter season at Park City Mountain Resort exactly one week from today at 9:00am! They will keep turning for 141 days, churning to a stop after closing day on April 11, 2010. For the operations departments – snowmaking, lifts, grooming, F&B, etc. this means that they will [...]
Entries Tagged as 'ski resort opening'
One week to go!
November 14th, 2009 2 Comments
Tags: 2009-2010 winter season · resort marketing · ski resort opening
Open For Winter Already?!
October 9th, 2009 3 Comments
I’m trying to figure out exactly what the heck is going on this fall with so many resorts opening before the leaves even fall off the trees. I understand that Loveland Ski Area and A-Basin (both high in the Colorado Rockies) are usually leading the charge, but wow, Las Vegas Ski and Snowboard (under an [...]
Tags: a-basin · boreal · las vegas ski and snowboard · loveland · ski resort opening
Slowly ramping up
December 3rd, 2008 1 Comment
Getting a ski resort open for the winter season isn’t a matter of pushing a few buttons, having the chairlifts turn and people hitting the slopes. There are a slew of seasonal staff members to be trained in a wide variety of positions, carpets to be cleaned, snow to be made with snowguns then pushed [...]
Tags: jobs · ski resort opening
