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In your face, Gaia:
As a result of global warming, the hills are alive with the sound of a new concept: the four-season mountain resort. “Last winter, we saw a lot of buyers abandon the search for pure ‘ski-machine’ resorts,” says Joanna Yellowlees-Bound, chief executive of the mountain-property specialists Erna Low Property. “They started asking for destinations that offer a strong summer, spring and autumn experience as well as snow.”
Town halls and property developers are now working flat out to meet the demand ... Wherever you go in America and Canada, you’ll find mountain towns that are buzzing come July and August.
Global warming alarmism has caused year-round private jet journeys to high-end holiday zones. ROFL, as the saying goes.
My brother’s in-laws own a ski chalet in Vermont that in the past 20 years has seen a huge conversion of dairy farms into top flight golf courses, local lakes into Jetski choked water holes, small towns becoming “outlet malls”, etc.
I think before WWII, these places were populated by folks out of Ethan Frome but things change and the pastoral landscape is now a weekend getaway for folks from Lawnng Oiland.
And the ticks and skeeters are loving it…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 05 30 at 11:24 AM • permalinkFunny you should mention this - I was visiting Sonetka in Salt Lake City (elevation: 5,000 feet) just a couple of weeks ago, and while we were there we drove out with some friends of hers to nearby Park City (elevation, 7,000 feet). It is WAY high in the Rocky Mountains and is generally known as a ski resort, but the warm weather brings out the mountain bikers and climbers-with-backpacks. The main street is lined with restaurants and overly cute gift shops, all of which seemed to be doing well.
The only downside (or so I am told) is that a lot of the permanent residents of Park City are transplants from California.Just for the record, we were there for a nice late breakfast on a Sunday morning; I do not climb mountains, nor do I bicycle at 7,000 feet. One of the pleasures of middle age is that I will never have to do anything like that again.
Posted by Sonetka's Mom on 2007 05 30 at 11:42 AM • permalinkAs a result of global warming, the hills are alive with the sound of a new concept: the four-season mountain resort.
This is news? “Last winter”?
I’ve been watching this concept grow for years. Indeed, I’ll push the envelope here: I recall “four season” use of resorts as a teen ager and young adult. Say, in the early 1970’s.
Sounds like someone had a slow news day. Or just awoke from a coma.
The only downside (or so I am told) is that a lot of the permanent residents of Park City are transplants from California.
Alas, this is true for much of that region, Sonetka’s Mom. Southcentral Idaho and western Wyoming are similarly besieged. Indeed, the pre-invasion residents of Jackson, WY refer to their home as “Little California”.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 05 30 at 12:05 PM • permalinkWell, we need to shut this kind of thing down right now! All this means is that the
peasantsmiddle-class folk will be out selfishly driving their SUVs full of kids and camping gear to these places andgetting in the way of elites and hogging all the good siteswarming the planet to the point of catastrophe!ROFLMAO.(Hat tip to whoever here posted this brilliant work of stupendousiosity a few weeks ago.)
Posted by dean martin on 2007 05 30 at 10:37 PM • permalink#4 Pacosan Ha!
You call them “progressive”, we call them “fashion forward overlords”. All our City Council members are progressive as is a voting majority of the County Board.
Four seasons. Vivaldi died here. He took his notes out for a walk and Any Month hit them. Mother Gaia just sounded recall on the 80’s just a week ago and now she came back for our 90’s.
Have to get you eastern seaboard types in here in July and August when the monsoon hits for a realtime discussion on the concept of “dry heat”.
#19: When I moved to Peoria (just outside Phoenix) in late 1991, that part of Arizona had the heaviest rains it had experienced in 200 years (or so I heard). Which is a sort of twist on the Gore phenomemon: every single time my wife and I move, it rains, and hard. I’d still take Tucson over Occupied Northern Virginia anyday.
#20
I would tend to agree on the ONV characterization. I would like to move to the Roanoke, Blacksburg area where I could get some land and a little freedom.I’ve been to the DC area in summer and we are just a notch below that in the monsoon part of the summer. Can’t get people to understand that. Our weather pattern comes from Mexico that part of the year. Some nights at say 11 PM we have a temp of 90 with a dew point in the highh 60’s and humidity in the high 70s or 80’s.
My basic problem is that I like green and not brown. Streams and lakes and stands of nice trees. Never liked the desert. Finally turning the better half around on this issue. Hope springs eternal.
Pacosan
No! No! I wouldn’t dream of depriving you of your cushy sinecure. That’s redundant, but never mind. Besides, you couldn’t get me into that northern corridor mess for all the tea in China.
A funny thing happened to that gold mine! The dry cleaners lost it. They gave it to someone else. All I got back was this darned purple puppet. Someone said that I’d been taken to the cleaners on that gold mine. I guess that’s what he meant. And after all the trouble I had gone to in learning Dutch. Well, life lessons and all that.
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