Bretton Woods Patrol/Mtn Bike Race

Bretton Woods went from 98 trails one weekend to 7 the next, so the terrain parks were closed which forced me into working with ski patrol on Friday with Matt. We first headed up and met Kevin, Greg and Paul, all whom were pretty cool. There wasn't much going on so they sent us off to ride. Later in the day we took the padding off the lift towers on Fabyans's Express Triple chair. It was really muddy and the snow was spotty so it made for some grass skiing. It opened my eyes to how much ski patrol actually does, there is a lot of prep work like putting up the pads, getting the first aid station ready, and the same goes with closing trails, doing sweeps and putting up proper roping/signage. Saturday, was the Mountain Bike Race, I worked with patrol in the morning roping off the course, to separate the ski trail from the race, I learned all the work that goes into it and how to do the knot to connect the rope to the bones. After that the race was going to start so I headed up to the start line and took pictures of John Kuhn and other racers. After lunch, the race had ended so we had to take the rope off the bones and coil it up which took a good amount of time. That concluded our time at Bretton Woods, we thanks Mr. James Noyes and headed home.

Ski patrol plays a huge part in customer service, they open and close trails, set up fencing and if you get hurt they are there to help! They are huge on safety as they put out signs, recue injured skiers and make routine safety checks. Patrol effects the customer in positive and negative ways, as they can open/close traisl whenever they deam them safe/unsafe.