Outdoors and sport

Getting a ski hill ready for opening day

A ski hill can open only when the lift has passed its inspection, the runs have enough snow and the lodge and staff are ready. This project holds the lift and lodge work, snowmaking, hill and lodge photos, the dates up to opening day and a weekly check-in.

The Tenmile Opening Day project in Thicket over a photograph of a snowy hillside of spruce and birch at dawn: the health flag reading At risk, the dates to opening day and six people, then nine cards: the Message Board with the haul rope splice on top, To-dos with four lists on the progress chart, On the hill as nine photographs of the chairlift, snow guns and groomer, the Hill crew chat about the night's snowmaking, the Work list board with cards in Found, Waiting on parts and Being fixed, Lodge as nine photographs of the A-frame lodge being readied, the Calendar with the rope splice next, Before opening day with the crew leads' answers, and the Hill manual with the opening day run sheet.

Tenmile Hill, a ski hill owned by its members, posts lift and lodge news on the Message Board and tracks the chairlift, snowmaking, the lodge and its people as four lists in To-dos. The snowmaking crew talks in Chat before dawn, every broken thing moves from found to done on Boards, and photos of the hill and the lodge sit in two Docs & Files grids beside the manuals. The Calendar holds the rope splice, the state inspection and opening day, and Check-ins ask each crew lead every week what is left.

In this project

The tools on the project's page, in the order shown above, and what each one holds.

  • Message Board

    6 posts, the newest “The haul rope needs a new splice”

  • To-dos

    4 lists, 11 of 24 to-dos done: Chairlift, Snowmaking and grooming, Lodge and rentals and 1 more

  • Docs & FilesOn the hill

    9 pictures

  • ChatHill crew

    7 lines from 5 people

  • BoardsWork list

    16 cards in Triage, Found, Waiting on parts, Being fixed, Ready for sign-off and Done

  • Docs & FilesLodge

    9 pictures

  • Calendar

    7 events, the next “Haul rope splice”

  • Check-insBefore opening day

    Asks “What's left on your crew's list before opening day?”

  • Docs & FilesHill manual

    Lift evacuation (3 items), Patrol sweep routes, rental-fleet.xlsx, rope-test-report.pdf, snowmaking-log.xlsx and Opening day run sheet

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