Magic Mountain staged three volunteer weekends this fall. Faithful supporters were invited to spend precious time away from home and family to clean, scrape, paint, saw, trim and hammer their way to improving the appearance and performance of the resort. The only recompense were burgers and soda served up by GM Jim Sullivan. Volunteerism may be the purest and most kinetic expression of devotion. Watching people trail down the mountain at the end of a volunteer day, burdened with chainsaws and string trimmers or spattered with grease and paint, is direct and undeniable evidence of the passion people have for Magic.
No doubt, other ski areas have devotees ready to shed blood, sweat and tears to improve its condition. I wonder, however, if as much significant work on the infrastructure is volunteered elsewhere? Do welders, carpenters and mechanics join with accountants, teachers and salesmen to ply their trades, in return for a couple of burgers, at other mountains? Maybe so. In the truest sense of the phrase, it's all good. It's just better, it seems, at Magic.
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