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  1. Absolute pound town all day at Killington.  Unfortunately the pass claimed yet another victim.  The state needs to do something as we are having a fatality a month on rt 4.  This time a car lost control headed east down the mountain and hit a bus head on which careened into the woods.  Around 5:30 we were looking at an inch an hour with it having snowed all day.  Well over a foot since Sunday night here.

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  2. 15 hours ago, bwt3650 said:


    Would be nice to see killington get back in the October ski game again..it’s been a few years since they’ve pulled it off.


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    I hope so.  I work full time so I struggle to get into the 100 day club unless they are open super early.

  3. On 8/1/2023 at 10:18 PM, powderfreak said:

    That's a great lineup, pretty much covers it all.  Doesn't the Beast 365 Pass at Killington include the IKON/Alterra mountains too?  So you have basically covered all of the mountains in Vermont.  And those combined passes all cost less than what just a single AIG Stowe pass used to cost, ha ha.

    Actually the Beast 365 early price was a little more than $400 more than an unlimited Killington pass.  The Icon comes with the beast 365 but Icon does not come with the unlimited Killington pass.  We have had Beast 365 passes the past 3 or 4 years and really have not gotten the extra $800 in value out of it for various reasons. My 81 year old Dad is all about Okemo these days and we live 15 minutes from the Jackson Gore parking lot.  So we opted to spend that extra $800 on Epic midweek northeast value passes instead of the 365 pass.  We still have unlimited Killington passes because Pico is our true home mountain mid season and we are all about Superstar in spring.  Plus we are 13 minutes from the Skyship .  I’ve been known to do a couple runs on my lunch hour there. I’ve gotten 100 days on my Killington pass 5 of the past 6 years and it’s always a goal of mine.  While I enjoy Sugarbush, we did not get up there enough the past few years. In the old days we used to take a week off and ski Stowe, Jay and Bolton with a Smuggs and a MRG or Sugarbush thrown in.  With the passes we have this year we could do something like that if we wanted.  But I have not skied Stowe in 10 years and I’d like to get there this year.  I’ve never skied Wildcat and it’s on a list of things I would like to do.  So we mixed it up a bit this year.  If nothing else I’m sure I’ll get my money’s worth on the Epic pass even if I only get 4 half days in with my dad because, at this point, getting a few turns in with him is pretty priceless.  
     

    All together the three passes worked out to $2,010.20 each.  It’s a good chunk of change but we may get about half of the money back from my husbands unlimited Killington pass because he works for a local company that gets $700 merchants passes.  We are not sure if he qualifies as he shifts from full time to part time in September.  Killington is a nice company and they will adjust his final pass price if he qualifies.  Had we bought 365 passes that would not be an option since that is a year round pass typically paid in installments including mt biking and golf.

     

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    It’s August 1st and that means it’s time to start thinking about the new ski season ahead.  

    Our Epic Northeast value pass came in the mail today.  We paid the second of the three installments on our Killington passes today.   I went ahead and paid the final three installments on our Indy passes today.  So most of the lift tickets are paid for.  Time to start training for ski season and hoping for an early snowfall.

    Here is shot of our back door in central Vermont last March 4th.  Let’s hope the back door looks like this in December.

     

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  5. 2 hours ago, klw said:

    Vermont also has a massive housing shortage which will make it even harder on the displaced.

    It’s going to have a huge impact on lots of things in Vermont.  It’s going to be interesting to see if isome of the investors leave or if it impacts Airbnb proceeds enough to result in eventually an unwinding of some of the Covid driven housing demand.  It has seemed for the past year or two like everyone in the country wanted to either move to VT or own investment property in Vermont.  For us we were terrified that our rental would flood and we would have to leave VT because we would have no where to live.  Seriously was thinking my husband would have to quit his job in Vermont.  He is a healthcare worker at the hospital so he is needed in Vermont but housing is so challenging that people who want to live in Vermont and who have jobs in Vermont have to leave because there nothing to live in.  In the short run this storm will make the situation which is already dire, much worse.  

  6. Yes. To whomever told me my house would be fine…it’s in Plymouth and is currently completely cut off.  We have no idea if it is flooded or not.  The power is out and the area has no cell service so our neighbors are both physically cut off and also have no means to communicate with the outside world.  It’s bad. 

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  7. 37 minutes ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

    Both houses will be fine.  The roads leading to the VT domicile might be compromised though.

    The road near my house is already compromised.  The governor was in my town today surveying the damage.  This road used to lead to my house.

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  8. 7 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

    One has to wonder.  Not going to lie, I am very intrigued at how this plays out given the consistent high-end model data.  Maybe it’s a bust, but it’s been consistent.  A great learning experience in progress either way.   
     

    Hoping not to learn some of the lessons this could teach.  Ugh. One house at elevation in the green mountains and one in north central Connecticut.  5-6 am looks very rainy

  9. 9 minutes ago, TauntonBlizzard2013 said:

    I do landscaping on the side for one of my buddies who owns his own company. We never have started before 8, and usually try to start somewhere that isn’t sense with houses.

    Some things can’t wait though. One of our neighbors sent a text out to all the neighbors asking if anyone had a problem with a construction crew demolishing an installing a new patio starting at 630am. It was a weekday, and a one time thing, nobody cared.

    It’s not hard to be courteous. 

    If it were a weekday and an emergency id be fine with it especially if I knew.  Heck…..  In a true emergency any time is fine. But this was a routine weekly mowing of 1/2 an acre.  The only person out of the huge group being mean that backed me was the guy who lives two door down.  He, ironically, owns a very large landscaping company and he made it clear that he felt it was very unprofessional for the guy to mow at 6:30.  But he was the only one.  I got called a Karen. I was told (as if I don’t work) that people need to work for a living. I was told I was being childish.  I was told I was not a good community member because I was intolerant. It went on and on.  I finally reported the whole group for harassment and threatening and left the group.

  10. Here is the road that goes from the main base area at Killington to bear mountain. This is a key road in town.  Route 100 north from 100a to rt 4 is closed and washed away.  All this is from Friday.  I live on rt 100A in relatively steep terrain with a small stream in the side yard that comes off the top of coolidge state forest.  It runs into pinney brook which runs along the length of rt 100a.  I’m nervous about tonight.

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  11. 2 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

    Well in this part of CT 99% of my neighbors agree with me. Sorry your area is that rude. I don't say anything to him just mind my own like the rest of us around here. 

    Thanks.  I’m glad to hear that.  I was really shocked.  I did not say anything to the guy mowing or the neighbor either.  I honestly just wanted to know what the rule was.  I did sort of expect people to say something like, “the ordinance says 7am.  They should not be doing that.”  To me that would have made sense.  And it would have been something I could casually mention to the single woman that lives in the house where the mowing was occurring next time I happen to see her.  Like “your landscaper was here mowing last Saturday at 6:30am and woke us up.  The town ordinance is 7am at the earliest.  Could you please speak to him about that?” 

  12. 13 hours ago, Ginx snewx said:

    Don't laugh I have a jerk neighbor who blasts his gas jet engine lawn blower at 630 on a Sunday.  Just happy I was up. He's far enough away from me but bet his other neighbor with the new baby doesn't appreciate it. Some people are jerks

    Our neighbor’s landscaper has the loudest mower I have ever heard.  It’s disturbing any time of day.  It’s not the annoying drone of a mower. It sounds like an outboard.  We have a well insulated house and are used to sleeping through noise because we live under the flight line for BdL about 2-3 miles away.  We had a window air conditioner and two large fans (one a box fan and one an industrial size round fan) all on high at the time  They fired up the mower about 35 feet from our bedroom window Saturday morning at 6:30am. It woke us up from a sound sleep when we went to bed at 1am.  All my life I have waited until at least 9am to mow out of consideration to neighbors. So I asked on the “locals” town Fb page if there was an ordinance on when you could mow and explained why I was asking. I did find out the ordinance is that you can’t start before 7am.  But  I truly HATE CT.  About 30+ people in my town gave me an earful about how I was a jerk for asking.  Apparently instead of being mad I was supposed to bring the poor Ass landscaper water because poor working guys have to make a living and it’s hot (yes, get out of bed in my pj’s at 6 am and run over there ‘cause that’s what they would do)  Never mind I have a difficult job and work a lot too and really needed sleep after a hard work week myself.  I was told that I should be wearing ear plugs (preemptively? - makes no sense) or that I should have been running a sound machine (again preemptively?) and then I was made fun of and threatened.  A guy on my street told everyone that it was too bad I was upset they were breathing my air.  They stole a picture from my fb page and cut it on to a mower and posted it and made fun of me.  They claimed to be organizing a “dad” lawn mower parade to go by my house next Saturday at 6:30 am.  These people are supposed to be adults.  They all have little children and look to be around 35 years old as per their FB pages.  There were no less them 30-40 people pig piling on.  I literally hate these people in CT, on this street and in this town. Why would any community treat a fellow community member that way? I have never interacted with any of these people.  I did not know any of them by name or by face and they certainly don’t know me. I’ve done nothing to provoke them other than ask a question. I basically don’t even live here. I asked a simple question about a town ordinance and got threatened. It’s just mind boggling.  I finally just tried to play it off and said that my husband would enjoy the parade and would be there to greet them and their parade just so they would perceive me as less vulnerable and less of a victim (because yes he exists and yes he won’t put up with their crap).  They accused me of threatening them!?  Seriously WTF.  As a couple of you guys know, I am a VT resident, I’m pretty close to retirement age and in reality I am only in CT getting the house ready to sell.  But when I contrast the way people are in VT with the way people treat each other in CT it’s a pretty sad stark difference.  I grew up in CT but people are just plain mean here now.  It’s very good incentive to hurry and GTF out of here quickly.  Whatever happened to being neighborly and community minded?  Apparently that is gone.  

    At least from reading this thread I know that I am not the only one who thinks mowing at 6:30 am is rude.  Totally unbelievable.  People need to do better.

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