I understand they used to use a ladder to get the ball out of it before the bottom finally fell out of it.

FYI they also have a page for snowfall by season, which might be more useful for remembering winter 'xxxx'.

This is true. It is to protect the bottom line but a lot of people who work for even the corporate resorts love the sport and mountains.

>The wildlife will be better off without the resort.

Of course, except even a temp change of a few degrees changes ecosystems enough to make them extinct.

As for staff, I'm talking about anyone who works for the slope/resort. Quality of the jobs aside, people do rely on that income. A handful of companies own most of the resorts so this includes staff that work remote.

I'm not here to promote or defend ski areas, some of them are run by greedy assholes. Others ownership groups are better just like any industry though. I have been an avid skier since I was 4 and I do often think about the environmental impact of resort skiing. Running a ski resort is very energy intensive - grooming equipment, chair lifts, compressors and pumps for snowmaking, etc.

That said, many of them do invest in green initiatives. Maybe some of the more "corporate" owned ones just want to boost their image (or protect their bottom line) but there is actually advocacy and investment from ski resorts in climate intervention, as well as efforts to reduce their own carbon footprints.

https://www.nsaa.org/NSAA/Sustainability/Sustainable_Slopes/NSAA/Sustainability/Sustainable_Slopes.aspx?hkey=3d832557-06a2-4183-84cb-c7ee7e12ac4a

https://saveoursnow.com/about-us/

https://protectourwinters.org/

assholes

20-30 degrees is absolute non-sense. not sure how that post can be upvoted. You can look up annual temperatures in MA since the 1800s and most areas are around 2-3 degrees over the last 150 years. Worcester is pretty flat, cape and islands are closer to 5 degrees.

https://www.wbur.org/news/2017/08/23/massachusetts-temperature-precipitation

There used to be a time when it would snow and then, for the most part, there would be some degree of snow around until spring because it was never cold enough for long enough for it all to go away. Now it snows and the ground is back ASAP.

I moved to central Maine and there’s hardly been any snow here either

I wonder how much of those profits were reinvested into efforts to mitigate global warming, though? We have "energy" (oil) billionaires transparently pushing anti-environmentalism but the response from businesses that stand to lose from global warming has been remarkably muted.

I bought snow tires this year so I'm almost certain we'll get no snow this year.

2015 ..no snow till Jan 26.. and I think we all remember what happened......

Sorry but you’re heavily misremembering. Not denying climate change, but temperatures and snowfall totals have not significantly changed in MA since at least the 80s (as far back as I’ve gone extensively). In fact, the 2010s was one of the best decades in over 100 years for a good winter.

I’m trying to find a comment I already made that has specific numbers but you can look it up yourself pretty quickly.

Her soul I hope is at peace I’m aware she’s dead…

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Since when does Costco send out plumbers to install dishwashers? All the technicians need to do is it hook up the machines and GTFO.

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And there will be a massive shortage on milk & bread lol

no it should link you directly to the MA site, just checked and it did indeed work.

I hate snow, ice and frigid endless cold winds. 😡👎🏽

I hate snow, ice and frigid endless cold winds. 😡👎🏽

Good to know. But not needed

Well she is in pieces....

These are funny asf and so dumb.

Ikr. Lmfao. The privilege from that comment.