Ricky Boucher

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…

I’ll be talking tomorrow for 10-15 minutes about the MyMonarchSpace. I created a handout to use at the meeting today. It’s my feeling that the MMS can be used by instructors to help promote themselves and improve by participating in online discussions and forums. As I said in earlier posts the MMS is wide open…

We have our re-hire employee orientation coming this Saturday. It’s where we are officially re-hired for the new season, we go over all the policies and procedures important to us in ski/snowboard school, and get our uniforms and lockers. Most of us leave our boots and equipment at the area then as well. It’s also…

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Greg Ralph, director of Marketing at Monarch Mountain, was interviewed by the Denver Post in an article about back country skiing in Colorado. Monarch actually has numbers on how many people have been taking advantage of skiing the back country at Monarch. We really do have some exciting back country here. Let me know if…

I’m very excited to see MyMonarchSpace (Monarch Mountain’s social networking site) growing as fast as it is. That’s a screen shot of the home page of it on the left. I understand we are the only ski area in Colorado to implement such a site. When you’re not signed in you see lists for New…

Here’s my schedule using Google Calendar. I’ll be able to make updates to it from my cell phone! I think I’ll place a permalink to it in the sidebar so people can find it easily. I’ll try to keep it updated. Right now you can only see entries in the Month view. I guess I…

Today was the deadline for filling in our 07-08 work schedule for ski/snowboard school. I’ve signed up for 90 days which is the highest level for full-time instructors at Monarch. I’m pretty sure I’ll be working more days than that. They don’t necessarily have to hire me again, but I’m counting that they will. After…

I mentioned earlier that I was in the process of updating my business card to include more personal information. The reason being I would like to be more involved with setting up bookings with students and guests. I’ve included my personal phone number and email address. Here’s what it looks like now. I was going…

Horst Abraham, one of the pioneers of teaching method in PSIA, method once known as the American Teaching System, published an ariticle in the latest PSIA Rocky Mountain Newsletter, Instructor to Instuctor (p. 12). (go here for a pdf of the newsletter). He says the purpose of the article is to “review teaching systems from…