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I've noticed a few career path threds popping up and thought I would let everybody know about this. There is a school in Michigans upper penninsula called Gogebic College. They offer an associates degree in Ski Area Management, (yes thats the real degree) with a transfer option to NMU for a Bachelor in the same. It works like this: 2.5 semesters on campus, 1.5 semester on internship at the resort of your choice anywhere coast to coast. Classes include grooming, ski instruction, board instruction, ski repair and tuning, snowmaking, ski area mapping, lift maintenance, and a few business and business management classes like accounting, and economics. I went there 4 years ago and it was the best decision of my life. Most of the guys from my class went into grooming, working their way up to building park and cutting pipe. I went into ski school, some of the guys went into retail, lift maintenance etc etc.... A few of them go to New Zealand, and Chile in the summer, and havent had a summer in over 4 years!
So if you are passionate about the ski industry and confused about what you want to do check it out! PM me if you have questions.