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Old School Real estate blog in the Catskills. Journeys, trial, tribulations, observations and projects of Catskill Farms Founder Chuck Petersheim. Since 2002, Catskill Farms has designed, built, and sold over 250 homes in the Hills, investing over $100m and introducing thousands to the areas we serve. Farms, Barns, Moderns, Cottages and Minis - a design portfolio which has something for everyone.

February 27, 2021

Gone Skiing, Vermont

Typically, a group of 10+ of us go to Stowe over President's Day weekend.  We leave mid-day Friday, land at the Courtyard Marriott in Burlington by early evening, and gather at the hotel bar by happy hour for drinks, giddy exuberance, some Connect Four, and then dinner.  Started out with my sister, nephew and myself 8 or 9 years ago, and has been ongoing and growing ever since.  And can get super cold up there, with skiing below zero degrees is not unknown.


Well, didn't happen this year but my friend John and I snuck out this past week for a mid-week jaunt up north, with 1 day in Stowe.




Vermont in general, and the slopes, in particular take their Covid prevention pretty serious.  This lodge is typically shoulder to shoulder hot mess of parents, kids and friends all in the full spectrum of fun and ill-temper.  The lines for the food, always pretty good, are hunger games like in the need for strategic aggression.  Not this year.  I guess like 5% occupancy rules, strictly enforced.  Eerie.

And 1 day in Killington, cut short cause our legs were screaming.


Good days for skiing.  Got 3-5 inches of fresh powder on Monday and temperate temperatures for Tuesday and Wednesday.  While the lift lines were unpredictable because of Covid (2 people on a lift or gondola slows things down regardless of the slope crowds), the slopes themselves were somewhat clear sailing, or clear skiing in this case.  If you do much social media, there are some very frightening photos of lift lines out West.

I had never been to Killington, which I liked a lot.  Big mountain, and a lot more 'easy' slopes, which I think would benefit our team a bit more - kids and some of the less adventurous skiers.


I'm surprised this picture below isn't blurry cause of the speed I was clocked at.


Time to think about breaking out the golf clubs for what I hope is a return of my mental health Monday where I social distance from the Office.  As I have reported.  I had to come out of retirement/pasture this past year in order to keep the ship upright, avoid the icebergs, and shovel in the coal to keep her moving full steam ahead.


And another in Killington.

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