Thinking about winter.

[penk]

I'm starting to toy with the idea of making skiing a bigger part of my winter. Having season tickets last year to Mt Wachusett was awfully nice, and really made me do the "lets go skiing for a few hours" thing.

When I was a kid, my family would regularly rent ski houses up in Vermont and upstate NY. Generally it was with lots of other families - big houses with several bedrooms we could populate with just 1-2 couples or a dozen.

Things are more expensive now, but that might be something I'd be interested in doing again. Are there skiers (with or without families) who might be interested in renting a house in Maine or Vermont for the coming winter, and getting local tickets to the mountain?

My budget is limited, and this would primarily be for Zach and myself, but I do like the idea of going in with several people to rent someplace. It's nice having a place to go to!

Comments

[jacflash.livejournal.com]

I'm not up for a house rental, but I'm probably up for a Wachusett season ticket this year.

[blk]

You could come visit Pittsburgh and ski out here!

(Hahahahahahahahahahahaha. I kill me.)

[penk.livejournal.com]

Don't mock the kitty hat!

[kimberlogic.livejournal.com]

We'd be interested and even know of some nice places in Maine and VT. We don't ski but we do other winter sports and enjoy snowing hanging out :)

[penk.livejournal.com]

Was definitely not thinking this is skiing only - half the fun is having a home base where everyone can come back to after their daily funfun!

If you have some ideas of places, that would be great - the budget is going to be the most challenging thing, so a lot will depend on how many people end up being a part of it.

I could also see setting out some guidelines for folks coming up for the weekend - either food or contributions or whatever.

Hmmmmmm!

[kimberlogic.livejournal.com]

It has taken me far too long to reply to this - sorry! if you're able to come to the birthday party on October 17th, I'll have some pictures of the fall rental at one of the places we've gone - they do winter rentals. i'll also heard good things about ourrentalparadise.com - they have specials fairly often and i went to their Sunday River house 2 years ago with a group. We each paid about $70 each for the weekend, group of 10 of us. It was really nice, though I remember it being late in the season (maybe the week after President's Day).

[ghislaine.livejournal.com]

Interested? Totally! Ability to afford? Very skeptical.

If you do some research and figure out a per family cost, I'll talk about it with R and see if he's got enough interest/$ for it to work for us.

[penk.livejournal.com]

Soitenly! Need to figure out a place and work the numbers, but I'll letcha know.

[dancingwolfgrrl.livejournal.com]

It's possible that I might be interested in getting in on a venture like this, especially this winter, for complex reasons not involving skiing (I only do XC, and only very beginnerishly). On the upside, odds that I would cook for you and you would eat excellently are high.

[inahandbasket]

That sounds like an excellent reason to go. *grin*

I very well might be up for such a thing if finances and certain life events come to pass in the ways I hope they do... It's vague, I know. Just put me down for maybe. ^_^

[penk.livejournal.com]

Done!

[penk.livejournal.com]

How could I refuse such an offer? :)

I'll letcha kno!

[dancingwolfgrrl.livejournal.com]

Sheer willfulness usually works, but I can't recommend it ;)

[ceo]

I might be seriously interested in this, depending on finances and various other factors. I'm unlikely to be able to do more than a few weekends, however.

[penk.livejournal.com]

Well I figure we'll set up the normal Google Calendar and see when folks can make it when - I hope to have enough people involved so that we all can get a couple weekends in - hopefully some wil overlap.

Thanks!

[concrete.livejournal.com]

I'm interested, curious about the numbers, and won't be able to afford anything until I get a job again.

[wolfkitn.livejournal.com]

hey, I'm interested! And I might be able to convince the boy (who is a much more experienced XC skier than me) to come, as well! Keep me posted, or on whatever list you have. I'm such an infrequent LJ-er, though, that I fear I'd miss something if you only posted it here... I'll try to stay awake, but... (do you facebook? It's my newer hangout.)

[penk.livejournal.com]

Yes! Here:
http://www.facebook.com/eidolon

I'm still not sure if this is feasible for this year. But I'm still looking!