SnowSeeker
Angel Diva
Does anyone have thoughts on VT travel restrictions for this season and whether they will remain the same through winter and how that has affected your own long term ski planning? We are holding off on buying Ikon/EPIC this year bc we live outside of VT; and though we have very few current covid cases in our bucolic little town, we live 30 minutes from Hartford. Vermont's DPH county calculation lumps us in together requiring us to quarantine. (Ironically, if we lived a few miles west where there is a huge covid hotspot, we could travel to VT without quarantine because their county data is more favorable overall.) I have read many articles about VT skiing operations this season, but relatively few address the impact of travel restrictions.
We know people from down here who have bought their passes and booked their season house rentals and they don't seem too concerned about the restrictions. A few friends who own houses in VT, but don't reside there, say they have heard that restrictions will be changed by winter (which seems counter intuitive if we think cases will rise in winter as projected). Even a few friends who are VT residents seem perplexed that we haven't bought our passes. They are traveling all over for vacations without a care and wondering why we aren't doing the same. Various non-diva ski forums have loads of questions from out of staters on where to book this season in VT. There are a lot of mixed messages in all of this.
What is a rule-following skier and her family of skiers to do during this time? I am curious as to whether this has affected other people's multi-pass purchasing this season.
Side note, we do have a small, local ski hill a few minutes away for which we also usually get passes. But they haven't adequately addressed their plans for operating during this time, other than to say they plan to open and run all of their programs and they will refund or carryover your pass if they never open due to covid. No word on capacity limits or how this works for ski team or what happens to your pass if they close after two weeks due to covid. I am sure the financial impact is killing these places so I am being patient with the little guys.
We know people from down here who have bought their passes and booked their season house rentals and they don't seem too concerned about the restrictions. A few friends who own houses in VT, but don't reside there, say they have heard that restrictions will be changed by winter (which seems counter intuitive if we think cases will rise in winter as projected). Even a few friends who are VT residents seem perplexed that we haven't bought our passes. They are traveling all over for vacations without a care and wondering why we aren't doing the same. Various non-diva ski forums have loads of questions from out of staters on where to book this season in VT. There are a lot of mixed messages in all of this.
What is a rule-following skier and her family of skiers to do during this time? I am curious as to whether this has affected other people's multi-pass purchasing this season.
Side note, we do have a small, local ski hill a few minutes away for which we also usually get passes. But they haven't adequately addressed their plans for operating during this time, other than to say they plan to open and run all of their programs and they will refund or carryover your pass if they never open due to covid. No word on capacity limits or how this works for ski team or what happens to your pass if they close after two weeks due to covid. I am sure the financial impact is killing these places so I am being patient with the little guys.