I received a comment on my last post about being sorry for not keeping up with this blog from Off-Piste. He tells me to keep trying and says it is good to hear what other instructors are doing. His words are encouraging to me. It’s nice to know you’re not alone. Actually one of the…

I’m very much looking forward to the coming season. Many reasons. Perhaps I should post ’em here. Last year I got so busy that I didn’t post anything during the actual season. Very sorry. Should I try again?

The Mountaineers Program started yesterday. I’ve been assigned the advanced students. So far there are four youngsters in my class. All of them are back from last year. Two of them were with me before and the other two were with Brad. Parker, 13, and Jake, 12, were with me last year and Jack, 9,…

After 17 days of waiting past the scheduled opening date, Monarch opened yesterday. We went from zero percent open trails to enough snow for 100 percent open trails all at once. We got so much snow it was ridicules. I believe yesterday we were reporting over 60 inches at mid-mountain. That’s five feet! The level…

Well we still do not have enough snow to open. I’m kinda bumming. I should have been working since the day before Thanksgiving. Our ski school wants us to reschedule our days to add days later in the season, of course during busy times, to make up for the days we’re missing now. If we…

A heckler called out “Have you seen Epci Ski? They got Bob Barnes over there.” This was during my talk in front of about 100 Monarch instructors about the MyMonarchSpace (here I go mentioning MMS again). Needless to say that I had to check it out for myself. She was right, over at http://www.epicski.com/ there…

At this moment there are over 170 people that have joined MMS. Personally I find it a little adicting. It may wear off, but right now I keep going back to check out how many new friends I have, looking at new postings in the discussion/forum areas, and looking at the new uploads that members…

The MyMonarchSpace seemed to be well received at the instructor re-hire orientation last Saturday. It looked like there were easily over a hundred instructors there. We sat through a bunch of policy and proceedure topics before it was my turn to talk about MMS. I started by asking how many people knew what an online…

Some things I’ve been thinking about posting. 1. How the MyMonarchSpace presentation went on Saturday.2. All the activity going on over at MyMonarchSpace.3. Other blogs/ski forums I’ve been learning about (EpicSki.com).4. Weems Westfault’s The Sports Diamond. (http://www.edgechange.com/)5. Two new websites I have been asked to work on: SnowMonsters and NextSnow. http://www.snowmonsters.com/ and http://www.nextsnow.com/.6. A few…