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 Winter is here in all its glory! Mount Snow has been making snow day and night and with temperatures in the single digits it has been piling up. The half pipe will be open in a few days and conditions are excellent so long as you dress warm.
The appearance of the Inn has changed as we put up the winter shutters in the front. The snow often drifts up to the roof line and those shutters make it possible to open the front door We hope the winter is as wet as the summer was and as relatively cold. The wet and cool weather last summer was awful for our vegetable garden but the perennial flowers loved it and the late summer weddings were spectacular! We have added some new peonies to the New Border and a new reblooming Iris bed in the ceremony area so I can't wait for next spring to see how they do. We have about 50 peonies and that will give us a nice display for weddings in late June and early July. The Daylilly Garden is finally big enough to make a pretty display for July and August and the Sweet Peas will do their usual job in the Wedding Garden behind the new Iris bed. We had some nice weddings in August this year and have managed to source almost everything locally including pasture raised grass fed beef. from the Brattleboro Coop. It does make a difference . All of our groups are back for which we are very grateful. Many of our groups are spiritually oriented and Cooper Hill is a marvelous place at sunrise or moonrise. The Sun has moved south but now starts it slow tripback to the left of It was a good year for the trout and for the golf courses as well as swimming it the West River. Ray Klass' photography workshop was here again in October, Klass Photo and they will be back in 2010. Flamingo Yoga will be here in April and next fall. Mount Snow continues to improve the facilities and definetely has the best snow making in the country. Add to that a whole mountain face of Terrain Parks and another visit by the Dew Tour and it becomes the place for snowboarding this winter. Wildlife update: While the bear are hibernating and the moose are doing whatever moose doing whatever moose do in winter, there are dozens of big and quite beautiful wild turkeys around. The deer are also active and a doe with two yearlings in frequently in evidence around the Inn. Be careful on the roads and don't trust your GPS. It doesn't show deer in the road
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