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RV mileage logged since purchase four years ago: 30k WATERVILLE.COM �� #WVRESORT know how to change the oil on my car! Still, I realized I was very good at operating machinery and feeling what the machinery was doing. I also found I had a really good talent for needing to know what the “product” looked like and why – I knew what I wanted to ski and what I wanted to see. Ski area business management is really all I’ve ever done. In a business so dependent on weather, how do you plan for the ups and downs? Yeah, the one thing I would love to do is put all of Boston and its surroundings in a snow globe, but that one’s a little out of my price range. We continue to advance our snowmaking system at an exponential rate – we have plans to install hundreds of new snow guns this year – and we can now turn them on easier and refresh or recover areas that will have damage from a spike up or down in temperature. We’re making sure we have the latest and greatest grooming fleet so that we can regenerate our snow in a better manner and keep a much better product. What if you had $1 million, or $10 million, to spend on Waterville? –John Burt (Scituate, Massachusetts) I’d want to invest in Green Peak. It’s the first expansion for this resort in 30 years and it means a lot to me. The big vision for me is to deliver a different product. The rest of our mountain is more for racers. But I’m not an Olympian. I like to free ski. I like to freestyle ski. I like to hit moguls, and I like the changing of terrain as I ski. That’s what Green Peak is to me – good, New England–style skiing. In the future, I’d love to be able to move the development even more toward town. But I’d also love to do more with our lodge and our current lift infrastructure. Skied 130 days a year when out West in his 20s. Road trip soundtracks: Kings of Leon, Jack Johnson, Minor Threat, Full Effect, Lil’ Wayne, Beethoven Worked in snowmaking at Beaver Creek for five years And what about if you hit the jackpot yourself? I wouldn’t quit my job, honestly. I’d want to invest it. Not in the stock market, but in myself, in my own properties, and in my own stuff! I want a new AT setup; I’d have the coolest skis, a really nice snowmobile, a bigger RV, a wakeboard boat on Lake Winnipesaukee in its own harbor. But really, my wife and I don’t have these dreams of riches; it’s a hard concept for me to think of being a multimillionaire. You have an RV? What’s the story behind that? It’s a 32-foot Winnebago that we bought when the boys could no longer fly for free on our laps. We don’t drive it as far as we used to; now I just drive it for fun, for camping and such. We’re planning to go to Niagara Falls in a couple of weeks. We just like to drive. It gives us a break, the solitude. I can’t concentrate on anything else while I’m driving; the only thing I can do is what’s in my head and the driving; it’s calming. Your approach toward work is pretty playful – does that come from being a dad of two young boys? Yes, being a father is definitely my number one, there’s no doubt. The playfulness of how they go about their day really influences my management style, my communication style. I’ve learned to listen more. We had all those great World Cup races here in the past. Will we ever have another? –Larry Young (Waterville Valley, New Hampshire) Yeah, you know, it was fantastic to see Riley, one of Tim’s twin boys, can already show dad a thing or two on the hill and in the skatepark.


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