Hazing and Ski patrol candidates…

One thing that we have learned as candidates is that you are going to get a lot of stories about “walking up hill, both ways, through the snow, barefoot”, etc.  Seems every candidate class has it “easy” compared to the people who have come before you.

A couple of us were in fraternities when we were younger and know the hazing experience (although no where near to the level that the poor sod scrubbing the floor with the toothbrush knows…).

When you are a candidate you get all the sh1t jobs.  Basically we clean the room at the beginning of the season, at the end of each day and we take out the trash.  You are probably thinking….hmmmm…… if I join ski patrol they are going to make me clean the toilets at the shack???  Probably yes.  And take out the trash and move crap and whatever else they don’t want to do.  Oh yeah we also cook the BBQ lunch for them also.

At first, many of the candidates had an issue with cleaning up the room and the toilets.  I can’t say I was all that excited either.  We quickly discovered that there were a bunch of us and we could knock it out in just a few minutes if we all jumped on it.  So after a the first few times, we quickly got over it and decided we didn’t care if it was hazing. If every class before us had been responsible for cleaning and maintaining the shack, we were on it and going to do a damn good job of it.  Now as we are getting on through the season, its no big deal.

I share this as you need to come prepared to do some stuff you probably wouldn’t think of but its all part of the crew looking after the bump house like it was their house.

Hmmmm. Next year maybe we make the candidates do the toothbrush routine in the picture…. in the snow of course…