Need a job?

Want a great job here in Steamboat? You can work the graveyard shift from 2am until noon. This gives you half the day to ski with the great unwashed masses. You get some weekends off too. The pay is not great, $9.25 per hour, but you do get a Season Lift Pass. The job only lasts until mid-January, but the Lift Pass is good all season.

What, you ask, is the job? Snowmaker, of course. You get to go out on the mountain and turn the snow blowers on and off. You get to fix them. You get to move the snow guns around. We chatted with one of these guys on the lift today. "The coolest thing was boarding down Rolex (a black diamond run) before it was open to the public, and before it was groomed, by the light of a full moon at 3am!", he said. You've got to admit that does sound pretty cool, eh?

This snowmaker also told us they blow 100 million gallons of water onto the mountain each season to help Mother Nature out. I think that is a lot of water.

The picture on this page shows one of these guys dragging a snow gun down Drop Out.