Ski Travel 2020/2021 Season

[Harvey]

We are creeping up. Northeast still doing ok. That second bottom is 9/8/20.

Kind of looks like 3rd wave.

 

[Benny Profane]

Right. Summer's over, a lot of kids are back to school. Soon, no more outside dining. No more outside anything for most people. Everybody stuck inside breathing on each other. Then there's Thanksgiving, when America will travel everywhere to kill their grandparents.

 

[Brownski]

I really believe the worst is over but how sure am I? Not sure at all. 65% confident? Let’s all play it safe and be careful. Maybe we can keep the lifts running.

 

[jasonwx]

I really believe the worst is over but how sure am I? Not sure at all. 65% confident? Let’s all play it safe and be careful. Maybe we can keep the lifts running.

Browne things aren't look so good in Rockland.. Cases are rising like crazy in SV and Monsey.. If infection rate hits 5% it gets shut down again...errrr

 

[Tjf1967]

Browne things aren't look so good in Rockland.. Cases are rising like crazy in SV and Monsey.. If infection rate hits 5% it gets shut down again...errrr

When they going to figure out you need to wear masks down there?

 

[marcski]

I will not be getting on a plane anytime soon. Otherwise, given the circumstances, I have no issues booting up in the car and not going into a lodge. As far as hotel stays, for me it gets a bit trickier but not a deal breaker, pack your own pillow and bring your own linens. Order food in and/or pickup takeout. Voila. You're skiing during Covid. Or, get a seasonal rental somewhere. Then you (and your family) are the only ones that will be there all season.

As much as the sound of driving around in a Sprinter van and traveling to ski is appealing, I just think I'm just too old (and too much of a curmudgeon) to live in a van. I mean I could probably do a weekend or 2 but definitely not a season.

 

[Brownski]

When they going to figure out you need to wear masks down there?

Most of us are following the rules. Specific communities aren’t on board unfortunately. Rockland politics are complicated.
It’ll be ok.

 

[Harvey]

I'm convinced it's not about surfaces. It's about breathing and distance. All of this cleaning is IMO a waste of time, or feel good window dressing. Long ago we stopped wiping everything.

I don't have a link or a scientific study to prove it. I'm sure eventually we'll know precisely, but I'm going with that, for now.

 

[MarzNC]

I'm convinced it's not about surfaces. It's about breathing and distance. All of this cleaning is IMO a waste of time, or feel good window dressing. Long ago we stopped wiping everything.

I don't have a link or a scientific study to prove it. I'm sure eventually we'll know precisely, but I'm going with that, for now.

I completely agree. Keeping distance from strangers or even some friends who aren't as clear about how to stay safe is the best approach. I stopped wearing gloves while grocery shopping back in April. Just wash my hands as soon as I get back in the house after running errands, at least most of the time. But I don't panic if I forget. Stopped cleaning house door knobs a couple weeks after that. By then I was wearing a face mask when in a retail store or supermarket but it was partially because then other people would stay farther away, which was fine with me.

What scared a lot of people about surfaces was a lab study that led to headlines about SARS-CoV-2 being found after several hours, or even days, on particular solid surfaces. As I remember, it was a form of metal (steel?) where virus could be found after something like 9 days. After that I read more than one article that made it pretty clear to me that not dealing with mail or packages delivered to the house for 3 days was a waste of effort.

Hospitals do a lot of cleaning of surfaces. But there are a lot of sick people there coughing, sneezing, etc. Why that applies to a grocery store conveyor belt is beyond me.

 

[MarzNC]

Let's see, since this thread is about travel . . . how many nights have I spent since June staying in a motel or timeshare unit without bringing my own linens? Comes to 9 nights over 3 months at 3 different places, mostly staying a couple nights in the NC mountains. Also a week at a private house in the Lake Placid area that came with linens.

I picked each of the places very deliberately. The timeshare resorts are operating at 30-50% capacity. While I've stayed in Super 8 or small independent motels, now I'm sticking to motels with exterior doors that are Best Western. BW is operating at lower capacity. No housekeeping after check-in. The house is owned by North Country School/Camp Treetops, which successfully had a few students on campus for a couple months in the spring.

For getting gas while driving long distance, I stop at Sheetz as opposed to any gas station that happens to be convenient on the way. Not only has Sheetz been pro-active about COVID-19 adjustments, the clientele tend to follow mask usage rules.

My husband is high risk and a Ph.D. scientist who worked for IBM for 30 years. He pretty much stayed home in March, April, and most of May. By then the info we needed to figure out what was sensible for him to do was readily available from multiple sources. We recently spent a week at at timeshare resort near Asheville. Ate indoors for dinner once. He also wanted to eat indoors at a chain restaurant for lunch on his birthday in the past month. Nothing he is doing makes me worry.

For those who don't know me, I have a Ph.D. in Biostatistics and worked for 15 years in the pharma industry doing clinical trials research. I know how to research a topic of interest, whether it's where to go skiing or how to avoid getting infected by a novel coronavirus.