Vail Mountain Resort Internship

Vail Mountain Resort December 3rd 2019-April 19th 2020

1000 S Frontage Rd

West, Vail, CO 81657

Experienced Snowmaker

• Striving for quality, safety, and efficiency to ensure an exceptional experience for our guests in the snow surfaces department

• Work as a team member with other snowmakers

• Teach and perform proper snow quality checks, snow gun adjustments, assembly and operation of all types of snow guns, and equipment placement on trails

• Relocate equipment according to daily and nightly gun lists

• Adjust snow quality to maintain Vail standards of "experience of a lifetime"

• Manage on hill snowmaking equipment risk

• Create a vision for HKD maintenance plan for 280 new HKD KLIK snow guns

• Communicate equipment moves with Snow central controller and snow cat operators

• Follow and teach Vail's snowmobile program (level 3/3)

• Strive to always "do good"

• Be apart of the team to build the Burton US Open

• Lead by example

(Above)-Installing a freshly cleaned filter on a HKD Phazer with boom arm. This gun sounded off and was making poor quality snow on stage 1 at 19 WetBulb. The filter had become clogged with rust particles which causing restricted water pressure. This made the water particles so large they failed to properly crystalize when falling even with a substantial amount of hang time. The trail was charged to 600 PSI and the gun was getting around 175 PSI.