Memories of Mayhem

One memory of Operation Mayhem that I have is watching the stock ticker go by on the screen at La Diable. 1999 was the height of the stock market bubble and everyone and their brother had opened an E-Trade account or some other type of online brokerage. We were all going to get rich!

Well clearly, that did not happen, but back then, we were all buying low priced dollar stocks and IPOs and hoping that they would become the next Qualcomm or EBay. Scotty and I had both sunk some money into some low priced stock (I believe about $6 a share) and were watching the small TV in the corner (yes, it's still there Tom) intently to see if it had gone up. I remember getting excited about any movement in price.

Looking back, it seems so silly now to be rooting for a low priced stock when there was Domination to be had, but there was a point to all of it. While sitting at La Diable and doing adult things like drinking, watching the market, and yeah, being alone on vacation, we realized that we had truly crossed that threshold from college kid to adulthood. We had finally "made it".

So, La Diable and Tremblant represents something much more to me that just skiing and having a good time. It represents my entire adulthood.

...also, I would like to take this paragraph to expressly thank Scotty for driving us to and from the mountain all of those times. If it weren't for his kindness and his ability to put up with Extreme Onction fueled maniacs, none of this would have been possible and we all may have been stranded or dead. So, thank you Scotty. Thank you very much. You are a scholar and a gentlemen and I now can fully understand why you may have not been as comfortable in Tremblant as you would have been at Gore.