Sunday, 6 December 2009

It's Snowing

It's snowing and has been all morning.

Tenjin has opened a lift up again having received 20cms of snow over the last few days and even Houdaigi has received a decent dusting. They're supposed to open on Saturday so the race is on. Check out their flash new webcams to see how they're doing - Houdaigi Webcams

Friday, 4 December 2009

Wii in the Bar

Continuing on with our "things to do when you're not on the slopes" series, a couple of weeks back we got a Nintendo Wii for the bar. Since then there has been pretty fierce competition over the sports game, and a definite drop in productivity. Nintendo 1 - Canyons 0.

One of our favourite features is to design your own character to use in the games. It's a lot more satisfying to have this personal touch, and there is definitely something to be said for conflict resolution when you get to pound your workmates' faces during the boxing game (and strut around triumphantly gloating afterwards.) Relationships have never been smoother with this pressure valve.

Any ideas who this is?

Wednesday, 2 December 2009

Rental Department sorted - now just need the snow.

It's currently hammering down with rain here. Can only hope that it is snow higher up as we're really looking forward to getting out on snow again. You can keep up-to-date with the weather in Minakami by checking our Snow Reports.

At least the lack of new snow has given us time to sort out all the rental gear that we've got for this season. It's all safely stashed in its new home and waiting the opening of the resorts so it can fulfill its raison d'etre.


There sure was a lot of it. It's pretty difficult to figure out how much of each size to stock to keep a lodge full of guests of varying sizes kitted out, but with some complex mathematical modelling applications and the power of the computers available these days.... we took a stab in dark and got 3 of everything.