Does any one really know what this means and more importantly how often do we follow this golden saying? We all tend to get so busy, even though we live in some of the most beautiful places on earth, we don't take the time often enough to really look around and enjoy. For instance, I take Billie, my border collie, for a walk daily. Walking through all kinds of beautiful forests, to lakes with amazing scenery. Too often, the walk is part of my chores in a busy day, so I'm hurrying or talking on the phone or worse texting and don't really appreciate the beauty around me. I decided to change this today. There's an Olympic ticket sales booth right across the way from where I work in the Activity Centre. I've watched people line up and always thought, I'll just be too busy during the Olympics with Ski Butlers to be able to watch any of the events. Oh yeah, I gave my head a shake and bought 4 tickets this morning. How many times in my life will I ever have the chance to watch an Olympic event live?!? So I will be taking part, cheering for the amazing athletes and smelling the beautiful aroma of excitement in February 2010.
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Lake Tahoe mountain ski resorts continue to open this week. After a nice snowfall last week, Heavenly began operations and opening ski runs. Heavenly Ski resort now has 4 of 29 lifts running with 6 of 94 ski runs open. This Friday two more mountains will open for business, and with the predicted snow storm on the horizon, they might just have perfect timing. Sierra-At-Tahoe will start running lift chairs this weekend and are very anxious for guests to arrive. The great folks at "Sierra" are going to be offering free backcountry tours all year long and are pumped to provide the free service. "Sierra" also just got word that they were voted the #9 Best Park / #9 Best Pipe / #6 Overall Resort in Transworld Snowboarding Magazine's, "2010 Resort Guide." Kirkwood Mountain Resort's long anticipated opening gets underway this weekend. Minimal lifts will be running but they are optimistic that much of the terrain will be available very soon to ski. So get your ski and snowboard rentals ready because it's time to hit the slopes.
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About a year ago I wasn't sure how I was going to use social media to help Ski Butlers and back then I didn't have a complete understanding of what social media was. Now I do and so do all our franchises! Follow us on Twitter, become a friend on Facebook, see our photos on SkiButlers.com, or view a video on YouTube. Why are we doing this? To keep our customers and friends informed. We are now becoming the source of valuable and relative information for the ski resorts that we deliver to. Not too mention it is fun telling and sharing our stories. So if you are not following, a friend, or watching us, start to do it today! Bryn Carey, Founder and President
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After a summer and fall of getting ready for the winter it is very good to see that the weather report is looking positive at just about all our 25 North American resorts with snow on the way and places like Whistler getting dumped on.
When owning a ski shop you can do everything in your power to work hard, advertise, and gear up for the season, but the one thing you can not do is predict the weather and unfortunately our best marketer is Mother Nature. Early Snow = Good Year. At last weeks Park City Lodging Association's luncheon the guest speaker was Brian Mclnerny who works for NOAA and he had some encouraging news; El Nino in the Pacific means a greater chance of a good snow year and we are in an El Nino. Now no one can predict the weather past 7 days but they can make good assumptions based on historical data.
In today's day and age of high tech snow making and groomers, ski resorts have been able to offer a very good product even when mother nature doesn't cooperate. With cold temperatures the past few weeks, places like Park City Mountain Resort, which is right out my back door, have been blowing snow at night when the temperature drops to make sure they are ready there ski season opener November 21st. So no matter what mother nature does, we are going to have good skiing and riding this year, mother nature will just a be a great bonus!
By: Bryn Carey, Park City, UT
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