Hurry up and wait!

For the second year in a row I decided to volunteer at Deer Valley for the Freestlyle World Cup. While the administrative organization was very well organized by Marilyn and Sarah her assistant, I wouldn’t say the same thing about the on-hill action. The job I signed up for was load-in, which meant assisting with the unloading of equipment supposed to be used on the mountain for the occasion. I did a bit of that, but mostly shoveled lots of snow and waited long hours before knowing what would come next (sometime we never knew and the rest of the job was called off.) Year after year, the things that need to be done remain practically the same, but somehow no one seems to remember and the (new) person placed in charge of on-hill volunteers appear totally clueless. Perhaps an operation manual would go a long way towards alleviating that problem, but hey, things might become too perfect and become soooo boring!