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Bob’s Bits for May/June 2021

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Bob’s Bits for May/June 2021

The ski season is a wrap except for Big Snow and Timberline

Well, there are still two areas still open today, June 7th, in North America. They are Timberline, and Big Snow.  For practicality, we will call it a wrap on the 20/21 season. I will declare it a season of challenge, perseverance, innovation, and sacrifice—many lessons learned. Let’s look forward to a summer close to normal and an upcoming ski season with plenty of snow, open lodges, and good experiences for all, guests and staff. You are the ones who are in charge of those good experiences.

A bit of egg on my face since I promised that the new MountainOffice mobile app and operation logbook would be launched during May in the April Steep Newsletter. The expectation was that the launch would be in May, but SEC Gmbh, the developer, in reviewing, found items they wished to improve and features they wanted to add to enhance the utility in the first version. The excellent news is that Steep can now demo the workings of the Ops Log and the new mobile app.  Give us a call, I think you will be quite surprised with what you see.

This month I am again sharing input on meetings; those pain in the butt time sucks. But, could we do our job without them?  I am also posting an article about drone usage in the French Alps, which indicates to me that there will be more drone usage in North America in the upcoming winters.

Last month’s Steep Newsletter took a poll on

How was your Season?

Better than expected                89%

Pretty much as expected           5%

Normal                                          1%

Less than Expected                     3%

Much Worse than Expected      2%

This month’ Steep’s Newsletter Poll;

Does your ski area utilize drones for mountain operations?

An email was sent out to our subscribers today asking this question, here is link to the poll.

Reach out to Steep Management, we are willing and happy to help you be better.

We can help you create a healthier ski resort by providing individualized solutions to your specific situation—no matter the size of your ski resort, or where you are in North America.
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Data and Information

Database of record: Centralized and organized data assists in recognizing and evaluating patterns, resulting in more thoughtful planning and informed predictions.

Rapid, intuitive retrieval of current and historical data (accessible on or offsite) improves decision making at all levels of management.

Simple report generation.

Reduces risk and potential lawsuits.

Supports visualization of current and future mountain infrastructure (e.g. Gazex explosives locations, forest thinning, designing new runs, parking, etc.).

 

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Ski Patrol

  • Ease of real-time data entry (no more logbooks or spreadsheets!).
  • Use of common language allows for consistent communication and information sharing.
  • Increases safety by minimizing accidents through pattern analysis of incidents.
  • Accident Investigation and Risk Management.
  • Snow Safety (Ski Patrol) Training.

The web and mobile application suite will provide editing and data collection tools for mapping incidents (wrecks, accidents) of any kind.

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Avalanche Module

 

Ability to document, track and analyze slope conditions with one tool.

Ease of real-time data entry (no more logbooks or spreadsheets!).

 Centralized and organized data assists in recognizing and evaluating patterns, resulting in more thoughtful planning and informed predictions.

Provides detailed current and historical weather patterns for visualizing/predicting.

Saves money through more precise use of explosives. 

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Dispatch

The dispatch and risk module leverage Esri’s Survey 123 for ArcGIS, providing an intuitive survey-form, data-driven workflow for point feature collection and reporting. Data collected with SmartMountain Survey apps, which are available for both web browsers and native desktop and mobile apps for standard operating systems, are integrated with one or more SmartMountain modules, providing real-time or disconnected and later synchronized workflows for data collection and integration.

Each ski resort decided what they wish to display on the Dispatch Dashboard including on-hill incidents, walk-in incidents, on-hill refusals,  missing persons, work details for different departments, ski patrol rosters for the day, clearances, and sweeps.

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OPERATIONS LOGBOOK

  • Logs for Lift Maintenance, Lift Operations, and Groomer inspections, as well as building inspections.
  • Logs can record data and signatures, can record stops, station assignments.
  • Logs are tracked by calendar.

INFORMATION

  • Management review made easy through the use of Excel – reviewing a major grouping of assets or a single component of an asset such as a drive or a gearbox.
  • All information related to a system(asset) is in one place whether it be a lift inspection report, a manual, oil analysis, a service bulletin, or a letter from a vendor.

DASHBOARD

  • Every user has a unique dashboard.
  • Dashboards can be customized to reflect a user’s specific needs.
  • Quick access to the status of work and cost .

SCHEDULE/ WORK ORDERS​

  • The schedule function in MountainOffice provides for detailed instructions by task, recording of data such as the temperature of a gearbox, and service bulletins.
  • All schedules can have a time or counter trigger.