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The "Sugarbush Thread"

HowieT2

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While not Vermont I just booked a place in the finger lakes for 7/4/11. Pickings were slim being that it was fairly last minute.

Quite frankly I'm looking forward to lake living for a week I need to get away...

have you ever been up there in the summer before? It’s great. Way underrated.
 

cdskier

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have you ever been up there in the summer before? It’s great. Way underrated.

I fully agree...

At the moment I'm still waiting a bit for the wineries to get all this new "normal" stuff sorted out and let things settle down a bit before I head up there though. Thinking maybe late July or early August...
 

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Finger Lakes area is beautiful...in September. Kids went to school in Geneva, Syracuse and Rochester. Off season, like January, and it's tundra. Cold, windy and flat as Kansas. Skiing Bristol is fun, but a bit limited.
 

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Finger Lakes area is beautiful...in September. Kids went to school in Geneva, Syracuse and Rochester. Off season, like January, and it's tundra. Cold, windy and flat as Kansas. Skiing Bristol is fun, but a bit limited.

I'll disagree with it not being beautiful in the off-season. I think it is beautiful up there in the winter. Never really thought of it as flat either. I went to Rochester for college. Still odd to me that Rochester is technically considered part of the Finger Lakes. It feels a world apart from the area around the actual lakes themselves.

I'll agree with your assessment of Bristol though. It is fun, but nothing compared to ski areas in the Adirondacks or New England. For being only 45 minutes from Rochester though, it was perfect for day trips during college.
 

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A huge bonus I just realized is that Other Half Brewing's "Rochester" outpost is ~ 8 miles from the house we rented! Can't wait to grab fresh beer from them on a daily basis and bring home a treasure trove to drink for the next few weeks
 

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Finger lakes nice - rotchester not so much.e

I've never been to Rochester, but my company has a building there & I know when coworkers need to go for a site visit & work late they get escorts back to their cars in the parking lot. That tells me all I need to know.
 

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My son Peter works and lives in Ithaca. Another area my wife and I have considered retiring to.

Great outdoor living.

My daughter is up there now and I went to college there. I could easily see living there.
 

JimG.

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My daughter is up there now and I went to college there. I could easily see living there.

Peter and his GF graduated from Cornell; she is currently in veterinary school there. My oldest David went to RIT which is in a suburb of Rochester and very nice. City proper not so much.

My youngest starts college at Alfred University late August. About an hour south of Rochester, small school and beautiful location but pretty isolated. James loved it when we visited which was about 2 weeks before the virus hell broke loose officially. I wasn't wild about him being so isolated at the time but think differently about that now.
 

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My oldest David went to RIT which is in a suburb of Rochester and very nice. City proper not so much.

Good old Henrietta! I know it well (or at least I did 15-20 years ago) :-D Go Tigers!
 

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Good old Henrietta! I know it well (or at least I did 15-20 years ago) :-D Go Tigers!

It came down to a choice between RIT and Alfred for James. It was a tough call for him.

I personally love RIT and believe the coop program they have is the best in the country.

Wow way off topic sorry.
 

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Daughter is a Sophomore at RIT in Computer Animation. Loves it there. She can't wait to go back. They've announced that in-peson classes willstart up in August.
 

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It came down to a choice between RIT and Alfred for James. It was a tough call for him.

I personally love RIT and believe the coop program they have is the best in the country.

Wow way off topic sorry.

Hah...I'm pretty amazed that we went from Sugarbush -> Vermont -> Finger Lakes -> Rochester -> RIT somehow!

Definitely a great school. Although I'm not personally happy about some of the changes since I graduated (I was a huge proponent of their previous quarter system vs switching to semesters for example). I also think the price today is insane (although this applies to most schools). Hard to believe that tuition has more than doubled in the ~15 years since I graduated!
 

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I have that same thought about tuition every time I make a payment for my son except its been 20 years for me...

Back to SugarBush

are they opening for summer? I haven't seen any email updates.
 

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Looked like they were load testing Bravo yesterday. I think they do not know if they are opening or not. Depends what the next state directive is.
 

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Looked like they were load testing Bravo yesterday. I think they do not know if they are opening or not. Depends what the next state directive is.

The latest Win's word talked about the plans for fireworks for July 4th (watch from the parking lot by your car, limited number of parking spots). It also mentioned golf being open. But beyond that no mention of other summer activities yet. I agree that I think they're pretty much waiting to see what the state continues to say. I still haven't been up to my condo since things shut down in March to do my usual end of season clean up.
 

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I would bet they will have to limit the capacity. How they would do that is probably not determined yet. I am sure Patrol will be there and if it was an emergency they would let you in. I think if you made it up there you can probably make your way to the bottom.
 
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