HIPPYVALLEY

5 years ago W MA and VT still had plenty of bargains and then Covid hit and the wealthy Tri-Staters came in and bought everything, often sight unseen. I literally watched house and lot prices almost double. What sucks is a lot of residential homes were bought as vacation houses that are maybe used a total of 30 days a year. Makes it tough on the local working populations. A friend of mine is a police officer in Wilmington VT and he said they have a hard time recruiting police and fire because there is no real estate available in S VT.

I'll watch models this week because I'm hoping for the last minute save for the weekend. 18z GFS was stormy.

Bring it, I don’t need cold until mid November.

Forsythia re-blooming?

Yeah, I am chaperoning a Boy Scout event that day and evening.

Well, upcoming weekend looks like a disaster.

Just had a 30 second shower so I guess technically it was not a rain free weekend here…

That part of Vermont kind of went from brown to down. Only a few days of color.

GFS says rain all weekend, 2-3” for all.

I question how long Vail will hang on to Attitash? They unfortunately end up being a snow hole of sorts so there is a combo of high ticket prices but marginal conditions. The people I know who have lodging up in North Conway tend to go to either Wildcat or Bretton Woods. Sometimes they just take the 75 minute drive over to Sunday River.

Oh I’m sure we’ll get a chance to find out.

Thank God! I hope it doesn’t precipitate again until the Thanksgiving snowstorm.

Not if you're buried in debt.

Classic small New England ski mountain. I've done many a turns there. What a bummer but I'm sure we will see more of this moving forward. It's the economic landscape just as much as the variable winters. Black, Berkshire East, Burke, Wildcat, Magic Mtn, Butternut, Catamount are all great old school areas but walk tight financial lines.

Uhg.

Let's at least wait until Thanksgiving the be sure of that. I do think we will have better temperatures to work with for sure.

You have to figure the pattern needs to dry out at some point.

We saw two fisher cats cross the road up the street from our house. At first I thought gray foxes but then googled an image. They were also darker than foxes and their tails were almost touching the ground.

It's the new reality.

Nice catch.

I’m still using the outdoor shower.

You chasing?

The Indy Pass never even opened up to new customers this year.

Box already saying 60% chance of rain next weekend. Yay. May as well lock in the storm for the following weekend too!

And the one after that too!