Jeff Ballweg

Yesterday was a long day for Julie and I. We’ve recently joined the Sunday Night shift, and by happenstance, we both also had chair evac training. As a candidate, the candidates would need more instruction than the veteran patrollers, and as an instructor, I figured it’d be fun to work with this years candidate class. [...]

I spent the morning at Cascade Mountain and they were making snow. Word has it that temperature and humidity are just barely in the range for daytime snowmaking, so they’re able to go in about 20 hour shots with little melt off. Optimistic opening day is still pegged at next Saturday, and while there’s no [...]