1st Day of Training at Ski & Ride School

So surviving the weekend and progressing into my first day of training, I officially started my job. Before I talk about that, I'll mention a little bit about my weekend.

Saturday I tried to sleep in a little and then I had a go at the free public transportation system that takes you into the town of Frisco. I went out for only about an hour and a half to get a few snacks to have in the room so I won't go broke eating out all the time. After I got back, my roommate arrived maybe an hour later. His name is Nick and he's from Denver. He's a snowboarder out here and a drummer back in Denver, overall he's a pretty chill guy so we'll probably get along fine.

I went skiing Sunday and found a lift called Rendezvous. This lift takes you up the left side of Copper Mountain in which I discovered thus far to be the best area for skiing. It's wide open full of mostly blue routes with lots of diverse slopes and terrain. Although upon reaching the top I also discovered the other side of the mountain is currently closed including some bowls with blue and black routes, so hopefully those routes will be open soon.

So in training we spent a couple of hours listening to some speakers about our purpose at Copper and all that jazz. Then we went to get a locker and afterwards we went to Gear Up to get sized and equipped for our uniforms. They are pretty nice, the jackets are orange with some plaid accenting the front, and the pants are tan. They also gave us a beanie of our choice ( 6 different designs to choose from) to keep as well as a baseball cap with their logo to keep also. So after getting our uniforms we then took an hour lunch and then changed into our uniforms and got our equipment on. We then split off between skiers and riders, and then the  ski group split one more time to allow for a smaller group training. There was about 8 people in our group plus our training instructor. So for the next three and a half hours we were out on the slopes learning methods to teach kids and allow them to have fun learning how to ski. The exercises were fairly fun and the instructor was very encouraging. Overall being outside the weather was nice through most of the time, except when we began our last run. We went up a 6-man lift called the Super Bee, this was over on the East Village of Copper and it was a long ride. About halfway up the wind starts to kick up and the snow starts to blow harder (it had been lightly snowing most of the day), so by the time we reached the top it was cold...by far the coldest I have felt since being in Colorado. I was using some different gloves and to say the least my fingertips were freezing. It was a fun run going down but I was so ready to get off the mountain ad get my fingers warm again.

So overall today felt good to have something to do. Hopefully the next couple of days of training will turn out as good as today.