Skiing's Future

[Endoftheline]

That's 100% true. I feel the same way about it here in Western NY Finger Lakes region. Don't really like big city people moving here, driving driving up real estate etc.

Well you might be able to buy it, but Canada doesn't need to let you in

Same can be said about the Adirondacks. They buy up all the waterfront at ridiculous prices and start by cutting down as many trees as they can, put up lights all over and then try making a lawn out of forest. If they like the Suburbia look so much I don't understand why they move.

 

[SayvilleSteve]

I know right, isn't capitalism just the worst!

 

[Harvey]

Locals give me shit because I don't like to cut down my trees.

My plow guy:

"You can always tell a flatlander, they don't cut down their trees."

I did cut some down this year.

Excavator:

"Those trees will be a lot cheaper to drop now, before you build."

 

[Campgottagopee]

Locals give me shit because I don't like to cut down my trees.

My plow guy:

"You can always tell a flatlander, they don't cut down their trees."

I did cut some down this year.

Excavator:

"Those trees will be a lot cheaper to drop now, before you build."

Your trees, and I too like trees. Some of them do need to go, it's good for the woods.

 

[Campgottagopee]

Same can be said about the Adirondacks. They buy up all the waterfront at ridiculous prices and start by cutting down as many trees as they can, put up lights all over and then try making a lawn out of forest. If they like the Suburbia look so much I don't understand why they move.

Because to them it's cheap

 

[MC2]

Also, they are pretty fed up with coastal people moving there and trying to change it to be more like where they came from. No offense to anyone on here but liberals from California or New York can seem awfully extreme to a fourth gen Montana cowboy. The can come off as down right arrogant

I’d like you to tell us more about Montana cowboys. You seem to know so much about them!!

 

[raisingarizona]

I’d like you to tell us more about Montana cowboys. You seem to know so much about them!!

They like star filled nights and camping?

 

[raisingarizona]

Times are a changing.

Climate & skiing

From retreating snow elevations to rain-soaked powder, warming due to human-caused climate change will radically transform U.S. skiing over the remainder of the twenty-first century.

www.climate.gov

 

[Peter Minde]

Because to them it's cheap

I'm acquainted with someone who repaired to a lakefront vacation house in Lake Placid for the summer to escape the heat. This person told me, "no one wants to work up there." My jaw dropped, as I know more than a few people in that part of the world with more than one job.

 

[riverc0il]

Times are a changing.

Climate & skiing

From retreating snow elevations to rain-soaked powder, warming due to human-caused climate change will radically transform U.S. skiing over the remainder of the twenty-first century.

www.climate.gov

From the article:

“By the end of the century, people will not be skiing in New England,” he said. The Sierra Nevada fare better. The Rocky Mountains fare better still, thanks to their overall high elevation.

I dunno, that seems like a really extreme projection. Perhaps they are assuming all natural snowfall and not accounting for snow making?

There is a massive temperature difference between RI and CT ski areas (which still make it work today) and northern NH, VT, and ME ski areas. Low temps between NoVT to CT in the valleys are often 10+ degrees (and even more variance in the deep winter).

Average temperatures would need to increase big time to make snow making unavailable in northern New England by the end of the century. If temperatures increased that much and that rapidly, skiing would be the least of our concerns, life as we know it on Earth would be in jeopardy.

I can definitely see natural snow viability becoming a big problem in southern and central New England by the end of the century. Heck, it already is an issue, but not causing wide spread failures (yet).