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Ascutney has been running a non-profit ski area the last few years also, open to the public, with a rope tow and a tbar as of last year I think. Also does some trail maintenance above it for the skin crowd. Love that they do that, they'll probably get a lot of traffic this year if they have snow. Some good terrain too, particularly skiers left in the woods out to the cabin. Gets cliffy over there if you go too far though.

It's not totally clear to me what happened. It seems like from the FB page they may have reopened as a member owned coop, but retained Milltown to manage the mountain ops. It does sound like they intend to reopen this year. Good for them. Much as I love Nelsap, I'd rather not see it updated with anything other than memories and recent trail pics.

FWIW Berkshire East purchased the Hermitage out of bankruptcy this year and they are going to reopen as a non-profit. But the deed requires them to remain private, which presumably was a condition of the original sale from Mt Snow. At any rate, the country club demand can't be too high considering that's basically the only one and they were broke. That said, put a country club on Mansfield and you might have something. Release the hounds on the riff raff.

We can only imagine what would happen to cars with out of state plates

Monday Dec 14th?

After months of wavering, I just bought a weekday pass to the Beast/Catamount/Bosquet after reading this post. My intention had been to buy one for Magic this year, but too much uncertainty. At any rate, Milltown Capital (aka the Schaefer fam) has really put in tremendous work these last few years. And I've skied with em and stayed at the Warfield. They're a real asset to Western MA. Happy to support.... usually in the form of day tix, but considering what we're up against the pass makes sense this year. Plus the idea of cabanas and outdoor bbq's is appealing. They have the Alvah Stone managing the food service, which was a stroke of genius IMO.

Has NPR bumped their "Fact check" article about how it's likely not legal here yet? https://www.npr.org/2020/04/02/825293201/a-president-is-not-able-to-order-a-national-quarantine-experts-say

The EPS made a pretty big 12hr move yesterday well inside of day 10 as a particular wave coming off Kamchatka into the Aleutians came into better focus, with downstream implications. Hard to get worked up over day 15 progs in the same region. Things seem to be transient right now, as mentioned.

Euro offers some encouragement to those not wanting an 11-12 redux. Anyone left here not wanting an 11-12 redux?

Apparently CEF broke its daily high temp record the last 4 days in a row. The last 3 were from 1975. Not sure about today.

Charlie Baker can impose a curfew but once he starts talking schools, yeah no.

yeah. As long as the quarantine in your home state provision remains it seems like a charade. If that goes away, it'll be a sign of them actually getting serious. And my guess is, with it will go the ski season.

Apparently Tommy was an accomplished artist too, per Bob Ryan. Total bummer. But a big guy making to 86, chain smoker for decades, seen and made history, not bad. Life well lived.

my goodness is it ever pleasant out there. 2020 making amends in the last 2 weeks.

Who did you think put the cadaver tendon in Curt's ankle?

nor his 3-0 record, 1.8 ERA in the 04 playoffs

Only quake I ever felt here was 4/20/02 Was outside and didn't notice this one. Congrats SEMA peeps

Almost another 2 weeks in though. That's an impressive number.

Masks and bikinis in Amherst

*4/10 - 5/10 may be close enough for a recount

I usually say that 10/15-11/15 is the best time to travel outside of New England. I guess since that's we're extra grateful for the 4" of snow and now this lovely stuff.

DSD

Honestly I think where Treehouse has the big advantage over most of the other local breweries now is in the stouts. Double shot is my fave but there are a ton of solid offerings. I think their biggest competition in that dept isn't local but Founders KBS or CBS when they're around.

We hit up Charlton maybe once every 2 mos or so but in general I'm more inclined to spread the wealth. Take your pick these days really. Quality is widespread. Nothing against treehouse but the gap has substantially narrowed.