Guest Posts from Outdoor Mom




Friday, July 31, 2009

MWR announces Golden Star and Golden Leader employee awards for June 2009


The recipients of the monthly Golden Star and Golden Leader employee awards at Mount Washington Resort have just been announced for the month of June 2009.
  • June 2009 Golden Star
    David "Ike" Ikasalo
    Resort Shuttle Driver (left in photo)

  • June 2009 Golden Leader
    James Noyes
    Director of Equipment Rentals and Tickets (right in photo)
Nominations and voting for these awards are done by employees of the resort based on the following criteria:
  • Gold Standard Service Delivery
  • Exceptional Teamwork
  • The Golden Touch - going that extra mile

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Daily Photo 7/28: Feels like summer is truly in bloom...


On this beautiful July afternoon, resort gardener Margaret Perry was out on the Jewell Terrace, the rooftop garden of the all-new Presidential Wing at The Mount Washington Hotel, to tend to the unique alpine gardens. These gardens feature plants and flowers typically found around the summit of Mt. Washington, and have been layed out with that in mind.

Friday, July 24, 2009

New special just posted: Stay 2 nights, get 3rd night free at Mount Washington Resort!

Extend Your Stay at Extraordinary Savings!
Stay 2 nights, get your 3rd night free!
Valid through September 3, 2009

Now you can receive your 3rd night FREE when you stay two nights at The Mount Washington Hotel, Bretton Arms Inn, The Lodge or The Townhomes! **

Please call 800.314.1752 for reservations or more information.

** Offer valid for accommodations only on third consecutive night. Free night does not include meals or other package amenities. Subject to availability through September 3, 2009. Redemption limit of one free night per month. Offer not valid for consecutive stays. May not be combined with other offers.

Thursday, July 23, 2009

MWR’s own Denise Crowley has her 1st art gallery exhibition @ WREN in Bethlehem, NH thru 8/10


She makes a living working as a graphic artist and designer in the marketing department of Mount Washington Resort, but on her own free time, Denise Crowley creates works of art. Literally.

Crowley has her first art gallery exhibition on display through August 10 at The Gallery at WREN on Main Street in Bethlehem, NH. Her exhibition of illustrations and fine art, titled An Eye & Hand For Detail, will be on display along with a photography exhibit, Rural Affections, by Andrea Craxton, and may be viewed free of charge.

WREN is open daily from 10am until 5pm, and there will be two evenings when you can meet the artists: July 29th & August 5th.

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

The Lodge - the economical, often-forgotten lodging property here at Mount Washington Resort

Located just across the street from the driveway to NH's iconic Mount Washington Hotel, The Lodge is a simpler, more basic alternative lodging option right here in Bretton Woods. The Lodge offers easy access via resort shuttle service to the Hotel, Bretton Woods alpine skiing center, the Bretton Woods Nordic Center and the Bretton Woods Canopy Tour, and all of the other fun activities here in the North Country, like Santa's Village and Story Land, are just a short drive from the resort. Check it out!

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Still space available at the 65th Anniversary celebration of the Bretton Woods Monetary Conference!

Join us this weekend as we celebrate The Mount Washington Hotel's place in history as the location of the 1944 Bretton Woods International Monetary Conference! A special lodging package is available, or you may make reservations for the Gold Dinner on Saturday night, featuring:
  • Moderator: Myron Kandel, PhD, Founding Financial Editor, CNN
  • James Boughton, PhD, Historian of the International Monetary Fund
  • Joseph Brusuelas, Director, Moody's Economy.com
  • Ross Gittell, PhD, Professor of Management, University of New Hampshire
  • Jeff Coons, PhD, CFA, Co-Director of Research, Manning & Napier
Call 800.314.1752 or visit www.MountWashingtonResort.com for details!

Friday, July 17, 2009

Just extended! Mount Washington Course specials - reduced greens fees and same-day play on NH's #1 course (Golfweek)!

Valid on the Mount Washington Course through August 9, 2009. Ranked #1 NH Golf Course You Can Play by Golfweek Magazine.
  • Greens Fees: Monday-Thursday, $75 including cart
  • Greens Fees: Friday-Sunday, $95 including cart
  • Same Day Play: Pay the $12 cart fee and play an additional nine holes on the Mount Pleasant Course
Please call 800.314.1752 or 603.278.GOLF (4653) for more information.

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Upcoming Event 7/25: The 65th Anniversary of the Bretton Woods International Monetary Conference


Join us Saturday, July 25th for a special celebration of one of the most influential and historic financial events in US history, the Bretton Woods International Monetary Conference of July, 1944.

A special lodging package is available for the event, and includes a two-night stay at The Mount Washington Hotel, complete with daily breakfast and dinner, as well as a special commemorative gift. Rates start at $194.40 per person, based on double occupancy.

The agenda for Saturday, July 25, 2009

10:00 am – 11:00 am
Gold Rush
There has been gold stashed around The Mount Washington Hotel for 65 years. Start looking - you have one hour to find the most gold.

10:00 am – 8:00 pm
International Monetary Conference
Visit the Grand Ballroom today and view the space where the delegates spent 22 days in July of 1944. Take a seat where the delegates once sat. The Ballroom will be closed from 5:15pm to 5:45 pm.

6:00 pm
Gold Dinner
The dinner this evening will feature a modern twist on the four-course menu that was presented to the world leaders. Guest speakers in attendance are Myron Kandel, Jeff Coons, James Boughton, Ross Gittell and an U.S. Economist from Economy.com. The speakers will begin at 6:15 pm after a brief introduction from Myron Kandel. After the dinner join the speakers in the Sun Dining room for Dessert and coffee for a question and answer session. Non Resort guests may also take advantage of this celebration for $65 per person including tax and gratuity. Please call the Activities Desk at 603.278.8989 for more information or to make your reservations.

Moderator for the Evening: Myron Kandel
Myron Kandel is one of the nation's best-known financial journalists, having been the Founding Financial Editor of CNN and the Financial Editor of three major newspapers before that. He was part of CNN’s original launch team in 1980 and has been recognized as a pioneer in the development of financial news on television. In 2000, he was named one of the ten most influential business journalists of the 20th century.

He is a commentator on the "Nightly Business Report" program on the Public Broadcasting System, and speaks frequently on media, business and economic issues in this country and abroad.

Following 25 years as Financial Editor and economic commentator for CNN, he spent three years as founder and President of the New Hampshire-based Initiative for Corporate Responsibility and Investor Protection, which produced a series of high-profile public forums on those issues on college campuses around the state. He also conducted a series of half-hour interviews with Presidential aspirants, which ran on New Hampshire Public Television. One of those interviews, with former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, received a Telly award for an outstanding local or regional program in the political/commentary category.
Kandel was a financial reporter for The New York Times before being named Business Editor of the Washington Star. He then became a foreign correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune, covering Germany and the European Common Market. He returned to the U.S. in 1964 to become the Trib’s Financial Editor, holding that post until the paper folded in 1966. He then became Editor and President of the New York Law Journal, the nation's largest daily legal newspaper. From 1976 to 1982, he co-authored a syndicated financial column that appeared in leading newspapers around the country. He was also Financial Editor of the New York Post before leaving to help launch CNN.

He is the author of “How to Cash In on the Coming Stock Market Boom.” The book, published in January 1982, accurately forecast the biggest bull market in Wall Street history, which began that August and continued until 2000.

Among his many honors, Kandel has received a Peabody Award for CNN’s coverage of the 1987 stock market crash and a magazine award from the University of Missouri School of Journalism. He has taught journalism at the City College of New York and Columbia University and has been the president of five journalism groups, including the 3,000-member Society of American Business Editors and Writers.

He has received a number of career achievement awards, including the Loeb Foundation's Lifetime Achievement Award, given to an individual whose body of work in business, financial and economic news exemplifies journalistic excellence. He was named to the Financial Journalism Hall of Fame by the New York Financial Writers’ Association, only the seventh person so honored in the group’s 78-year history.

Kandel is a graduate of Brooklyn College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and has received three honorary doctorate degrees – from Washington & Jefferson College in Pennsylvania; Bethany College in West Virginia, and Franklin Pierce College in New Hampshire.

6:15pm
Historian of the International Monetary Fund
James Boughton: James Boughton is Historian of the International Monetary Fund and, since 2001, Assistant Director in the Strategy, Policy, and Review Department at the IMF. From 1981 until he was named Historian in 1992, he held various positions in the IMF Research Department. Dr. Boughton holds a Ph.D. in economics from Duke University, and before joining the IMF staff, he was Professor of Economics at Indiana University and had served as an economist at the OECD in Paris. His publications include a textbook on money and banking, a book on the U.S. Federal funds market, several books that he edited or co-edited, and articles in professional journals on international finance, monetary theory and policy, international policy coordination, and the history of economic thought. He is currently writing a sequel to his book, Silent Revolution, which covered the history of the IMF from 1979 to 1989.

6:25 pm
US Economy
Economy.Com: Joseph Brusuelas is a director at Moody's Economy.com, where he covers the U.S. and global economies for the Dismal Scientist web site. Formerly, he was the chief economist at Merk Investments L.L.C. and chief U.S. economist at IDEAglobal. Joe has completed all but the dissertation portion of a Ph.D. in political economy and public policy at the University of Southern California. He holds B.A. and M.A. degrees in political science from San Diego State University.

6:35 pm
New England Economy
Ross Gittell: Ross Gittell is the James R. Carter Professor of Management at the University of New Hampshire's Whittemore School of Business and Economics. He is the author of two books and over 70 academic articles. In 2002 Professor Gittell received the University of New Hampshire’s Excellence in Public Service award and in 2004 the University’s Outstanding Associate Professor award. He is Vice President, forecast manager and on the board of the New England Economic Partnership and also on the boards of the Exeter Trust Company, the Endowment for Health, the Foundation for Healthy Communities and Exeter Hospital. Professor Gittell is a senior fellow at the Carsey Institute at UNH and an academic fellow at the Center for Transformation and Strategic Initiatives at the London School of Economics. Professor Gittell’s research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Commerce, the Energy Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Ford Foundation and the John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University, M.B.A. from University of California at Berkeley, and A.B from the University of Chicago.

6:45
Financial Markets
Jeff Coons, Ph. D, CFA: Undergraduate degree in Economics from University of Rochester and doctorate in Economics at Temple University. Jeff holds Chartered Financial Analyst designation. Jeff has worked at Manning & Napier for over twenty years. He began his career in 1985 and served as the equity research coordinator and he returned in 1993 after his doctoral studies. Jeff is Co-Director of Research responsible for management and oversight of the research process, as well as the measurement and monitoring of portfolio risk relative to client objectives.

Saturday, July 11, 2009

Daily photo 7/11: Fine Fly Form!


On a fantastic, sunny Saturday afternoon, a small group of would-be anglers were out learning the basics of fly casting. Looks like this guy picked up the proper technique very quickly! He'll be catching fish soon enough...

Friday, July 10, 2009

Like dessert? Check out the July Recipe of the Month – a delicious summer creation by our award-winning chefs, Berry Napoleon!


Enjoy creating this fantastic summer dessert, Berry Napoleon with Crisp Cookie Wafers, just like the chefs at the award-winning Dining Room at The Mount Washington Hotel! Visit the Recipe of the Month page for a downloadable PDF and make it this weekend!

Thursday, July 9, 2009

Mount Washington Resort Announces New Human Resources Director Linda Gauthier


Mount Washington Resort, located in Bretton Woods, NH is pleased to announce the hiring of Linda Gauthier as the Resort’s new Human Resources Director.

Linda Gauthier has sixteen years of experience in Human Resources. Gauthier grew up in Berlin, New Hampshire where she attended Berlin High School and graduated on the Dean’s List from NH Technical College in Business. Gauthier received her Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management at the College for Life Long Learning where she attended school at night while working at the Groveton Paper Board. She was then promoted from the Groveton Paper Board to Human Resources Manager. In 2006, Gauthier took the position of Assistant Human Resource Manager at Attitash and in 2007 became the Director of Human Resources for Attitash.

Matt Massei, General Manager for Mount Washington Resort, is delighted to have Linda Gauthier join the Resort team. “We are thrilled to have someone with Linda’s extensive background in human resources as well as lodging, hospitality, ski operations, and manufacturing on board,” said Massei, “We have such great resources in our backyard and we are happy to have hired local talent for this important role at the Resort.”

Linda Gauthier lives in Gorham, NH with her husband Richard and their two boys, Cody and Bryce.

For more information about Mount Washington Resort, please call 877.873.0626 or visit www.MountWashingtonResort.com.

About Mount Washington Resort
Located at the base of Mount Washington and surrounded by the White Mountain National Forest, Mount Washington Resort is a four-season vacation destination. It is home to The Mount Washington Hotel, site of the International Monetary Conference of 1944, and Bretton Woods, New Hampshire’s largest ski area. With the completion of a $50 million refurbishment and expansion in 2009, the Resort unveiled the restored 18-hole Mount Washington Course, a new 25,000-square-foot Spa, a 20,000-square-foot Conference Center, outdoor pool complex and renovated guestrooms, lobby and public spaces. The new Bretton Woods Canopy Tour, also has been added to the Resort’s list of amenities, which includes top-rated alpine and Nordic skiing, 27 holes of championship golf and a full slate of additional seasonal activities. A variety of lodging, dining and activities is offered year-round, along with many traditional and cultural events. As part of a proposed master planned community spanning the next decade, Mount Washington Resort has initiated the development of approximately 1,000 new homes and homesites, with the first offerings now available in the Dartmouth Brook neighborhood.

Saturday, July 4, 2009

Mount Washington Resort's all-new Independence Day Celebration - A Salute to Freedom! - is underway!

A couple of passing showers didn't dampen the spirit of those visiting Mount
Washington Resort for Independence Day! The all-new celebration - A Salute
to Freedom!
- included tributes to the people, soldiers and traditions that
make America what it is. Among the attendees were Abe Lincoln, Betsy Ross,
Teddy Roosevelt, a regiment of George Washington's Continental Army Dragoons
and several others!

Photos below: Betsy Ross; Abe & the boys from the North and the South; The South strategizes on the field at the (waterballoon) Battle of Wettysburg; The Battle is on!; The fife & drum call all back to The Mount Washington Hotel for snacks... and maybe some dry clothes!









Thursday, July 2, 2009

Independence Day weekend is upon us! The BW Canopy Tour still has space available, but make your reservation today!


Join us this Independence Day weekend for a trip down the Bretton Woods Canopy Tour! Space is still available!
  • Friday, 7/3: limited spaces available
  • Saturday, 7/4: several spaces available
  • Sunday, 7/5: several spaces available
But don't wait too long - call 603.278.4ZIP (4947) or 800.314.1752 to make your reservations today!