Friday afternoon I received an unusual call from the resort. We purchase guest ski packages from Killington through a process dubbed "elodge". The manager responsible for elodge, Rebecca, called the inn searching for one of our guests from the UK. It seems that the guest had unknowingly lost a small bag on the mountain. In the bag was over $700 in cash, plus a ticket receipt given to them when they went to a Killington ticket window to pick up their ski tickets we purchased for them as part of their "ski and stay" package.

What appears to have happened is that some time yesterday afternoon a Killington guest found the lost bag, and turned it into Killington Guest Services. At that point, a Killington employee, Patty, began the process of attempting to locate the owner of the bag by tracing the ski package receipt. Patty was able to track the receipt to our guests ski package, resulting in Rebecca calling us to contact our guests.

Late yesterday afternoon, our guests recovered their lost bag, and the cash they were planning to use on the rest of their Killington vacation. After they returned to the inn they told me "they will forever remember their trip to Killington. If we were at a European resort, the money would have been lost and our vacation ruined. Because of an honest guest at Killington, and the nice people working at the resort, our vacation was saved!"

Thank you Patty, Rebecca, and the anonymous Killington visitor for your honesty, and for helping out our inn guests from the UK. Let it Snow!