Areas for Improvement
Snowskate vs. Bikini
Back on July 23, 2011, a bunch of snowskaters (including me) went to Boreal to ride the last turning chairs of the season. It was an awesome summer day on snow. And, I heard later that I was on the evening news report about Boreal’s last day, but I didn’t bother to look it up […]
Fuse Makes Progress at Crested Butte
The foot strap rule at Crested Butte Mountain has been lifted! Thanks to Fuse Snowskates owner, Paul Elkins. Up until this point, Crested Butte allowed snowskates but only if they had a foot strap for the lift. The foot strap could have been anything that kept the skate to your feet while you were on […]
Ambassador of the Snowskate
Today I brought up snowskating to some of my classmates. A couple of them had tried it and said it was hard but fun; all of them were enthusiastic about the sport. Then one of them mentioned an instance where they saw a runaway snowskate fly down a run at Heavenly. My jaw dropped, and […]
Get Wise – Social Media Transformation
Subsequent to the lack of response to Experiment 1, I wanted to discuss the power of social media and its ability to facilitate change. This discussion also leads into the importance of social media specialists to organizations. In my last blog, Experiment 1, I mentioned how responsive “Kirkwood” is to customers. The responsiveness I was […]
Experiment 1
I fell in love with snowskating a little more than a year ago. At the time, I had been snowboarding for boocoo years. I’d ride every single day that I wasn’t working. But, my whole heart wasn’t in it anymore. I’d get up to the mountain, ride a few hours, and then leave after I hit my […]