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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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

I'm just hoping and praying for 2010/2011 which will render this moot. Plenty of fine skiing to be had without crossing state lines if we all have snow.

Wow, pushing 140kts FL

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.

Yeah with only 99.3% of W MA ICU beds not occupied by Covid patients and 1 new confirmed case in Hampshire county something had to be done statewide

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

RIP Sean Connery

Maybe 1/14/99 storm you were thinking about? Paper attached 26215320.pdf

I directly quoted a chart of Spain and was referring to such. It's similar for France and a lot of Europe. The US is a large, demographically diverse country with different considerations. I stand by my statement that the lag time is long since built in. And obv with more cases come more deaths at a lag, but there is zero doubt that CFR has fallen drastically based on those graphs.

look at that chart again... Cases have been setting daily records for 2 Mos. Yes, I know asymptomatic testing is a factor. But the case spike is not new.