New year, new you!

Except they won’t, there’s no business or industry that will replace the ski industry. The warmer it gets and the less snow we get the less jobs associated with snow.

I'm actually an NH resident, but I like to browse all the New England subs, couldn't agree more with this! Winter is my favorite season and I love snow, this is heartbreaking to me.

You don’t seem to understand that you may be more comfortable with warm winters but it will be devastating for the ecosystem. The plants and animals in the state have adapted to usual weather patterns and the severe disruption in those weather patterns is something they can’t adapt to in a few years. Warm winters means that ticks don’t die off so they proliferate and this will lead to mass die offs of pretty much everything in the forest. Trees are confused as fuck, my fruit trees didn’t drop their leaves until super late in the season and then started trying to grow new ones because of how warm it’s been. That stresses the trees and that’s dangerous.

Villainous murder trees for the win! 🌳🌲🔪

It is wrong, people don’t like to talk about climate change but it staring us right in the face. People focus too much on the global warming aspect of climate change when warming is only one facet, with climate change comes bizarre weather patterns. We got no snow, Buffalo sees dozens of deaths from 8 foot snow drifts. Europe and China suffer drought leading to Sirius crop losses this year, Pakistan gets hit with so much rain that a third of the country was underwater. For reference an area the size of Texas or France since they’re roughly equivalent flooded in Pakistan. The Colorado river is almost dry and the US had serious crop losses all throughout the Midwest because of extreme heat and drought. Strap in, it’s going to get worse.

Climate change means we’re in for a wild future. At least our forests aren’t browning out like the west coast.

Yeah I predict our ski industry will almost completely collapse in our lifetimes.

I would have thought the skis would have been for Skadi?

Driving is more of the problem here. If you ban ski hills, people will just drive somewhere else to recreate. The solution to that problem is public transit infrastructure like trains and busses, which should've been developed decades ago to move away from inefficient and dangerous car infrastructure.

Also, if the power grid that the ski hill is connected to is powered by renewable energy sources like hydro or solar, it won't be outputting any more carbon than anything else.

There are far FAR bigger fish to fry than ski hills when looking at global emissions. The meat we north Americans eat at an absurd rate is thousands of times more destructive than ski resorts.

The main harm caused by ski resorts, co2 from car travel and lift operations, is negated if the power grid isn't fueled by fossil fuels and by proper public transit.

Also, skiing has been a massive aspect of Vermont and is not necessarily elitist. Are you gonna go up to some local dude who goes to Mad Ruver Glen or Cochran's a few times a week and call him an elitist for enjoying winter? Not to mention the enormous back country ski community

Nah, she's just misunderstood.

Literally just finished reading a little true crime thing about kidnappers in Australia and then opened Reddit and this was on top. I also was just contemplating a second piece if coffee cake. Think I have my answer.

I saw the super villain list and thought vermonts was pretty cool so I posted it here. Our God seems lackluster in comparison

Burlington winters are warming faster than almost anywhere else in the country over the past 50 years

I fuckin' moved to VT because I wanted to live somewhere where I was near skiing and didn't see grass between December and April, and I can't afford any ski towns out west.

Feels like we haven't had a good winter since 2019, and I hate it.

This isn't a thaw. This is just warm weather. If anything, the two storms we've actually gotten have been "freezes," more than the rest of the winter have been "thaws."

I dont trust it ever since Eli Harrington left.

Skiing is a catastrophe for the environment. If climate change is going to destroy everything and cause societal chaos like so many predict, then one of the first things we should do is outlaw ski mountains.

Calculate the amount of carbon released just from people driving multiple hours up to the ski areas from the cities and everything else required to run a ski mountain. Or does elitist recreation not count toward the "impending environmental apocalypse."

The convenience will until then

Edit: yeah what am I gonna do? wait 4-8 hours for a text back or take a nice 30 minute drive with a guarantee and then be able to get on with my whole day instead of waiting around.

You may have the prices, but that's not going to be enough.

You're competing with instant gratification and a wider selection of products in a legal market that just opened here, & it is figuring out fast that it's competing with MA prices too. The prices will even out eventually so what will be left for the black market to compete with unless one of you is finally willing to sell me plants! Because home growing has been legal this entire time...

Good, don't let the nimbys in your town tell you what you can and can't have

Nope!!

"Lee Harvey. YOU are a madman. The time you stole that cow...and your friends tried to make it with the cow. I wanna party with you, cowboy."

No you're right, it seems to be an opt-in directory so it's up to the individual retailers to add themselves. I noticed right away that Gram Central is missing.

It's not comprehensive though.

Moved away from rainy winters to NH and realized winter could be full of fun and outdoor activities. Went on snow hikes, skiing, pond hockey. Blue skies and white snow.

This weather is specifically what I moved away from, and I'm afraid this is the norm rather than the exception moving forward...