Last weekend’s Rail Jam event at CMC in Leadville was featured yesterday in Denver Post writer Jason Blevin’s regular column “Outdoor Extremes.” The entire event is put on by Colorado Mountain College’s ski area operations program students, 95 percent of whom land jobs at ski areas after graduation.
LEADVILLE — Students in Colorado Mountain College’s snowmaking class made the snow. The heavy equipment class moved it and the grooming class smoothed it.
And Saturday, students in the college’s ski area operations program’s event management class hosted spinning skiers and snowboarders in a rail jam that served as a sort of thesis project.
The eighth annual Cloud City Rail Jam tested not only 23 flipping athletes but a dozen students who built the course, marketed the event, enlisted athletes and sponsors, scripted liability waivers, and managed a limited budget to host a festive, competitive final for full article