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  1. 22 hours ago, PowderBeard said:

    Damn, should have just gotten a pass to Berkshire East/Catamount/Bousquet for an extra $150 this spring. They are really planning.

     

    "A lot of effort is going into building 100 winter timber framed ‘cabanas’ that will fit a group of 6. These units are being manufactured at Catamount, using wood responsibly harvested from our Warfield House farm, and milled at Hall Tavern Farm in Charlemont. Fifty will end up at each mountain, respectively, providing up to an additional 300 extra seats at each space. 

    These units will have heat, a table and provide space for a family. We are still working on allocating these units to customers each day, but we will announce that process in the coming weeks. The lodges will operate per state guidelines at reduced capacity. Berkshire East will see the addition of new outdoor gathering spaces and patios that will be fun and very logical once you see it. "

    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.  

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  2. 1 hour ago, Lava Rock said:

    So Biden wants to shut down for 4-6 wks and says one of his scientists says we can emulate what Australia and NZ did. Really? That's not going to work and to even think the US is comparable to two islands in the southern hemisphere is ridiculous. it's a non-starter for so many reasons.

    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

  3. 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.

  4. 7 minutes ago, PhineasC said:

    They need to have the courage to just say that, instead of making veiled threats and basically daring people to run the quarantine blockade. It's a cowardly thing they are doing, actually.

    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.

  5. 11 minutes ago, dendrite said:

    It's only been warmer than the current 75F at CON this late in the season two other times.

    78F 11/7/1938
    76F 11/20/1991

    That 76F is still within reach.

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

  6. 23 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

    Epic day enroute. Who doesn't love this!

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

  7. 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. 

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  8. 4 hours ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:


    Taproom only.

    My guess is, if they are also looking at a Deerfield brewery location, they want to lock up beer markets across the state without having to ever distribute.

    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.

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  9. 1 hour ago, PhineasC said:

    I still can’t get over people from Coos needing to quarantine due to “high rates of COVID.” Just a crazy mentality. 

    By the metrics VT uses Coos county is awful.  You're like 9x the rate per million you'd need to avoid quarantine.   Based on like 31k people in Coos, they're saying you have 116 or so cases and you can only have like 12 to be in the green.

  10. 3 minutes ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

    Come on man, you know nothing exists W of Worcester.

    Baystate Franklin in Greenfield currently has zero patients with Covid. 

    Yep, 2 in ICU in the entire Baystate system.

    https://www.wwlp.com/news/health/coronavirus-local-impact/baystate-health-42-hospitalized-patients-with-covid-19-2-in-icu/

     Zero in the Cooley Dickinson system.  And as far as I can tell zero in any other systems out here.

  11. 1 minute ago, PhineasC said:

    Flying was already a huge hassle before. I can only imagine how terrible it is right now. I'd need to have a really good reason to get on an airplane these days.

    It's a frickin breeze.  Plenty of parking.  No security lines,   Super fast boarding.  Rows to yourself. Cheap tix. 

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