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I heard some of the swaps have been cancelled. Renting kids stuff for the whole season is sometimes a good option.

Amazing day fishing today out in the rips a few miles off Monomoy towards Nantucket today. Limited out on large Black Sea bass.

Here’s to hoping for a chance to make some powder turns one way or another this year.

That’s an awesome idea. It’s been a terrible year in so many ways. The best pet I ever had in my 53 years died on January 5th of a heart attack right in front of us and there was nothing we could do. I’d give a lot to have her back. Personally the rest of the year has sucked but that sucked the most. I still cry about it.

I can’t help but wonder if it would just make more sense to call it a day and start school March 1st in the same class rooms and same grades as we left off. Just hold everyone back. If you were in 5th grade in March 2020 guess what. You will finish 5th grade in the spring of 2021.

I could see that with private house rentals but the house across the street from us is a rental and it’s been empty. It looked to us via an unscientific survey driving that the hotels in eastham and wellfleet on 6 were completely empty. But more importantly there was no traffic from Brewster north. My 78 year old mom raved about how she drove from Brewster to the wellfleet Audubon in 18 minutes last week. Normally she won’t even attempt that trip during tourist season. So I don’t know.

Interesting that so much tourism is happening in VT and parts of the Cape while infection rates stay low. They say people in New England are “standoffish”. Maybe we are just really good at social distancing. Lol. Seriously though, given the low infection rates despite the tourists, I don’t get all the bitching in certain places about how horrible out of staters are going to infect everyone. If it was going to happen you would think it would have already.

Interesting. That was not my experience at all in the mid to lower Cape. We spent June 15-July 12th in Brewster. We found it easy to make left hand turns. When we first got there it was all MA plates. It seemed semi-busy the weekend of the 4th of July but then it died again. The big salt water parking at boat launches in Truro, Harwichport, Dennis, and Long Pond in Harwich all has easy parking. We went to Race Point, Herring cove beach and Nauset beach in Orleans. The national seashore beach lots were maybe 20% full. Nauset beach was maybe 1/3rd full with easy social distancing. We drove off the cape on Sunday July 12th at 2pm like it was an off season weekday. Going back from July 29th-August 17. Interesting to see if it’s changed since 10 days ago.

It’s a community page so sometimes there is helpful information there. My husband actually works for the Mountain and volunteers for a big volunteer organization in town and obviously we have an apartment there that we are paying rent and utilities on so we try to stay on top of what is going on when we are not there. I think that’s partly why the comments are so annoying. The idea that we are not part of the community and are considered tourists in an area literally full of people who recently moved to VT themselves just pisses me off.

But Facebook is still brutal with people saying they hate out of staters and how all the people from the horribly infected areas like CT and NY (?!) are littering, acting irresponsible, not wearing masks and trashing the place so the locals can’t enjoy it. At this point the Killington region should just be ashamed of themselves. I hope the winter bankrupts a bunch of people up there when people don’t show up. The Cape is certainly waaayy off as most people don’t want to do short term rentals/hotels. It would serve them all right if the same thing happened at K this. Just a few examples from yesterday. I could come up with literally 1000 similar screen shots from the killington pages.

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Yes. And no one is allowed on it. I can’t even imagine what today would have been like. It’s 9:10 pm. No doubt the party would still be raging.

Lucky Dog literally. The thing I live for went *poof* on 3/23 went uphill travel became a no no.

Holy mother of god. I have never heard thunder sound like that!!! It was the biggest explosion I have ever heard.

11 weeks early?? No thanks

Jay and Burke closed

Sitting at 2000 feet in Central VT listening to crash after crash as the snow falls off the roof. Depressing.

Pouring sleet in Killington after a night of glaze

Snowing cat paws at 2000” feet in Central Vermont

Snowing lightly all day at Killington/Pico. Feather flakes.

Freezing rain at Pico near Killington

Fine ski day at Killington with it snowing almost all day.

Looks like mid-next week for K to open. Certainly this coming weekend is the last weekend of the “offseason”. We are wrapping up our preparations this weekend since we will be skiing every Friday-Sunday plus every day we have off from the following weekend until next June.

Killington should be opening very soon I would guess.

The North ridge quad is in at Killington and will be load tested Monday. They have been blowing a lot of snow up there and will likely open within the next two weeks. For the past few years they start making snow on superstar up top as soon as possible because they need that trail covered wall to wall some specific depth (I think 3 foot but could be more) by early the week of 11/25 to get clearance to hold the woman’s World Cup race there over thanksgiving weekend.