Board Bindings & Poles

Buena Vista is a unique place to work in that many of the employees are cross-trained into several departments.

Take our accountant, "handyman" Drew Rhodes, for instance.

Most of the time Drew can be found at his desk balancing the books.

But for the last several years he has also been invaluable in the Rental Department.

He is often first-on-the-scene when our new equipment comes in.

For the last few days Drew has been reviewing inventory and installing the 50 new sets of bindings we ordered for our snowboards. He still has about 20 to go...but yes...this means NO MORE CLICK-IN BINDINGS in Rentals this year!

Wooohoooo!

Once all the bindings are installed, he also has to inventory the 125 pairs of Leki poles that were delivered last week.

Thanks, Drew, for all you do to make Rentals better each year!

Rental Shop

Kirby worked...and worked...and worked, as did his trusty crew of technicians, to be ready for this opening day. Considering what had to get finished, it's amazing how neat and tidy everything looked this morning. All ready for our guests!

I'm continually enchanted by the rows and rows of pretty skis all standing at attention. Wish I was a better photographer and could capture the candy colors better. Oh!....that's why I like them so much...they remind me of a big new box of 64 color crayons!

J & M adjust a ski at one of the new "counters" that replaced the big old ramp. Congratulations to the Rental Staff...no more sore backs from bending over people's feet all day! Won't that be NICE? :-)

OPEN Dec 5 & 6

Buena Vista will be open this weekend.

Saturday & Sunday

December 5 & 6

10am - 5pm

The Chalet is all lit up because the Rental Department staff had their first training session this evening. Everyone is excited to learn about the new Elan skis and bindings. Kirby and Mike have designed and built new stations for distributing rentals. New charts, new storage, new everything. Time to put it all into practice.

If you look carefully...click on any image to see a larger version...you can see three guns going on this view of Julia.

The main goal was to get the Julia Vista run open by Saturday. This photo suggests Sunflake (Bunny) may also be open. I'll update tomorrow from the office.

New Rental Skis

The Rental Shop has been gutted and a completely new system is being installed. Not only will the skis on the racks be our brand new Elan skis, the actual racks will be new as well! The way people receive their equipment will be different: No more up a ramp and then down the steps. Individual stations are being designed to help our guests move through rentals faster. One of these stations will be devoted to snowboards.

Kirby, BV's Rental Shop manager, is excited about our new equipment, the new stations-type floor plan, and the degree to which these changes will help us serve our guests better. Stop by the Rental Shop on our Open House Day (Saturday, November 14, 2009) to see the new equipment and the renovation-in-progress. A huge Thank You! to Kirby and all the Friends of Buena Vista that have committed themselves to making these upgrades possible.