Will New England See a New Ski Area In the Next 20 Years?

[St. Bear]

Bottom line, we don't anything.

This is the kind of logic that you can't argue against.

 

[dmc]

This is the kind of logic that you can't argue against.

So we just sit back and don't do anything...???

Man I hope your not wrong about this...

I don't want to take that chance just to save corporations $ and make the politicians(Koch Brothers) happy....

 

[Puck it]

And Puckit makes fun of my personal appearance.... Really classy..
This is what happens when people can't be civil in a discussion and why I'm calling this thread out as political and uncivil... As show above..

And I am calling you out as a pot stirring whine bag. So things never really change.

 

[dmc]

And I am calling you out as a pot stirring whine bag. So things never really change.

Second personal attack in a political thread..

Is this what Alpine Zone has become?

 

[Puck it]

Second personal attack in a political thread..

Is this what Alpine Zone has become?

Truth hurts, huh. This is your MO every few months on here. Just trying to get a rise out of the mods and see how you push it.

 

[St. Bear]

So we just sit back and don't do anything...???

Man I hope your not wrong about this...

I don't want to take that chance just to save corporations $ and make the politicians(Koch Brothers) happy....

I don't think your browser picked up my sarcasm font here.

Anyway, at the same time I don't think it's productive to freak out when we have a warm winter. The weather will be what it will be. We should do our best to minimize our effects, but also realize that the US isn't even close to the biggest culprit anymore. If you really want to be an agent of change, best learn some Mandarin.

 

[dmc]

No - there's politics being tossed around here...

What "truth" are you talking about... And why do you stalk me... You lay in wait and pounce whenever you get the chance...

I'm done with this thread... We'll let the mods sort it out.

 

[Nick]

Guys let's get this thread back on the OP's topic. We already have a global warming thread. Otherwise I gotta lock it which sucks because I find the premise of this thread interesting.

 

[WoodCore]

I can't be certain why you're ROTFLYAO and implying that I'm a sucker, but at least I recognize facts when I see them.
Warmer winters are here and it will only get worse and to me that's rather sad.
You can laugh all you want but if that's becuse I recongize that global warming will mess with my winter passion, I can only shake my head in disbelief at people who still insist that global warming is not real.
Oh, here's short artiticle that's apropos to the subject:
http://articles.courant.com/2012-12...20121208_1_ski-areas-ski-sundown-powder-ridge

Coming from the Hartford Courant, I'd take that article with a grain of salt!

The planet warms and cools in cyclical waves and man's influence on the process is minute in comparison to the other universal forces at work. Yes we can always be better stewards of our planet and treat her with greater respect but to believe that we can have that great an effect is IMHO ridiculous.

 

[St. Bear]

Coming from the Hartford Courant, I'd take that article with a grain of salt!

The planet warms and cools in cyclical waves and man's influence on the process is minute in comparison to the other universal forces at work. Yes we can always be better stewards of our planet and treat her with greater respect but to believe that we can have that great an effect is IMHO ridiculous.

That's what I was getting at, just in a much more jumbled and incoherent manner.

I just wish AlpineZone was a more accepting forum towards self-deprecating humor about typos.

 

[dmc]

That's what I was getting at, just in a much more jumbled and incoherent manner.

I just wish AlpineZone was a more accepting forum towards self-deprecating humor about typos.

If you don't know someone - it's difficult to tell if they are joking or piling on... you might add a jk or a imho or a <saracasm> in your response to clairify... At least until computers can learn to wink themselves..


I personally don't see any new areas opening..
BUT - you never know... the ski industry was hurting before snowboarding reinvigorated the sport.. Maybe something will come along to do the same in the futre..

 

[St. Bear]

BUT - you never know... the ski industry was hurting before snowboarding and reinvigorated the sport.. Maybe something will come along to do the same in the futre..

<sarcasm>If the monoski or snow blades can't do it, I don't think anything can.</sarcasm>

 

[dmc]

If the monoski or snow blades can't do it, I don't think anything can.

Was that was sarcasm? haha...

Snowblades.. wow.

Point is something needs to happen to get people to come up to ski enough to open a new joint...

 

[BenedictGomez]

This is what happens when people can't be civil in a discussion and why I'm calling this thread out as political and uncivil... As show above..

Actually, the content of the discussion on global warming was quite civil and friendly, and a fact based back and forth.

Until, that is, you lept into the thread tossing hand grenades and sarin gas canisters to and fro, screaming:

Big corporations
Koch Brothers
The 1%
Fox News
NewCon
etc......

It is you who made the thread overtly political (and over-the-top in that regard) with your Huffington Post checklist, which is, of course, exactly what you wanted.
So good job! I do have to strike you with one demerit though for somehow not working "George Bush" into the left-wing pantheon of talking points listed above. This is a glaringly obvious omission, and you could have done better. Next time, I'm sure.

 

[Scruffy]

Actually, the content of the discussion on global warming was quite civil and friendly, and a fact based back and forth.

Funniest thing I read on here in years :lol: :lol: Got Clueless ?

 

[MadMadWorld]

Soooo to get this back on topic....For those folks that say an old mountain may be re-opened....which mountain will it be? I think Ascutney will re-open in the next 20 years for sure. I don't really know many other mountains that haven't wasted away. I can't see a mountain like Temple re-opening even though it's only been a few years. Maybe Tenney?

 

[Glenn]

Possibly Maple Valley.

 

[Nick]

Jericho Hill

 

[drjeff]

The most obvious one right now (since it's scheduled to re-open for the '13-'14 season) is Powder Ridge in CT. The new owners have some solid financial backing and already run a summer operation (Brownstone Exploration Park) very near by

 

[BenedictGomez]

Funniest thing I read on here in years :lol: :lol: Got Clueless ?

I'd say taking the time to post actual data on the global increase in CO2 juxtaposed with the actual data showing the earth has simultaneously not been warming with that increase is indeed "fact based".

This directly refutes the entire flipping AGM hypothesis, and is a huge ****ing problem for the human-caused global warming crowd, a "fact" that became embarrassingly public with the leaking of emails stating their concern with this "problem" for their "science".


But hey, those Global Warming scientists are experts and never wrong.