Education for the Masses

Blue jeans can do anything, just ask the some millions of people who wear them everyday. Unfortunately skiing is not one of those things jeans were meant to exceed at (just ask Dick Cheney). Here's to the most recent and innovative sighting of jeans on the mountain...

A recent snow dump rendered a portion of our ski school unusable. A mix of a lot of snow and a wayward snow cat crashing into the lounge portion has forced off duty instructors to find shelter elsewhere. This has been both good and bad, as it makes us more visible in the lodge area during our off time, but also means we've all gone our own ways for things like a lunch break. A few good friends of mine now work in the demo/repair shop, so I've been hanging out and helping there in my off hours.

Last week our snow level shot up and we began to receive rain the early hours of the day. No lessons were going out, thus I'm in the demo shop. One gentleman comes in, rather wet I assumed from the weather, inquiring about waterproof clothing. I tell him that we don't have such equipment in this store, but the clothing/gear store in the main lodge would. Looking around he spots the bottles of Nikwax we have on the shelf and asks how that works. I explain the big bottles are wash in, and the little bottle is a spray on. He immediately buys the spray on and begins to coat his soaking jeans with it.

Throughout the rest of the day we watched him coat his jeans a few more times, the jeans of his friends, and those of what we assumed were his kids. Nikwax, not just for outdoor gear anymore.