Good Bye Summer 2008, Fall In New England Is Here

Hope everyone had a good summer because it's over this weekend. Time to kiss your summer lover goodbye and start thinking about ski and Snowboard season. The 21st of Sept marks colder temps and leaf peeping. As a matter of fact snow flurries are predicted in northern Maine.

The Farmers Almanac is predicting lots of snow this winter so I suggest saving up some cash for gas and consider season passe's for you favorite resort. Resorts are dropping there price's for season pass's to get folks to the mountains.

Vail Resorts Introduces the EPIC 5 Resort Ski Pass 08/09

Vail Resorts Management run the hottest properties around the USA for outdoor enthusiasts and for Skiers & Snowboarders they have introduced the Epic Season Pass for there best winter resorts. The Ski Pass can save you money even on a vacation.
$579.00 gets unrestricted access to Vail, Beaver Creek, Keystone, Breckenridge and Heavenly Ski Resorts. A single day lift ticket during peak season at any major resort is about $70.00 plus.
The Epic Season Pass is the only ski pass that offers Unrestricted (no blackout dates) and Unlimited (where you want, when you want) at the resorts.
This is a incredible value. You ski the best ski resorts in the country for a season for the cost of a weeks worth of passe's.

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Snowing In Summit County Colorado in August

Can you believe it. Snowing in Summit County above the Eisenhower Tunnel in August of 08. Arapaho Basin Ski area is in the background. See the snow. The weather around the country has been nice and mild in most places. Though a little extreme some places. Mount Mansfield VT has received 14 inch's of rain this August, But in the mid west the corn farmers are ready to harvest there best year ever according to Matt Noyes of NECN.

Reduced H-2B Visa's, Resorts Suffer, Ski Resort Jobs

So what are resorts to do when the government stops issuing Visa's for seasonal workers ? Everyone suffers. The patrons, business owners or the workers themselves. Everyone in my opinion. Here on Summer Base Camp Cape Cod I use to own and run a home remodeling company till I was hurt real bad. I use to hire 4 to 10 Irish students to work every summer. Once Ireland's economy turned around the students from Ireland stopped coming. The ones who did come to Cape Cod didn't want to work. They came for fun. We have always had a big Brazilian community, but the Brazilians didn't come to work for me or anyone else really they started there own business's. This created a stir around Cape Cod. Lots of upset folks saying they where stealing jobs. Total BS INMO.
Resorts and restaurants from Florida to Maine are reporting that they have received a 3rd less foreign H-2B Visa Workers this summer (08) and the customers are suffering.
So whats a resort to do ? Hire locals and have huge recruiting events. One of the biggest resort recruiting events is for Vail Resorts. Want a Ski Job at Vail, Beaver Creek, Keystone, Heavenly, Breckenridge, Rock Resorts or Grand Teton Lodge. Go to Ski Jobs 1 . Vail has recruiting event around the USA, Australia, Canada and more during the summer every year. Usually in August and September. You can do just about any job you want. From driving a bus to giving ski lessons. They will pay you, house you, give you a season pass and much more. Could be the best days of your life.
A ski resort job is what you make it. Members of my family have been ski instructors for up to 30+ years and still only make $12.00 a hour so don't expect to get rich. Getting a ski resort job is more about enjoying life. If year seeking the comfort of your own home after work every day its probably not for you. If you are hired and offered employee housing you will have a room mate. Making the move to a Ski Resort Job should be thought out very carefully. You will need money before you get to your Ski Job. You will need to be able to support yourself for at least one month ! You will need to work all the Holiday Ski Weeks and if it's busy don't expect to have many Powder Days unless know one can get to the resorts and they don't need you.
All Ski Resorts need employee's and the 2008-2009 ski season they will need even more Citizen due to the Visa issues.
It's been my dream for many years to pack my bags and head to Vail. I lived less than 2 hours from Vail when I was very young and have wanted to work there basically my entire life. I even had a job at Vail ready for me driving a shuttle bus. Which is the best ski resort job you can have ! The week before I was to leave I broke my shoulder.
Lost Dream of working at a Ski Resort ? NO! Over the last four years I have built a Mini Web Site Empire with software named Build A Niche Store and I'm going to try to be a ski bum again. This time I will be more careful leading up to the move. LOL. I'm going to do it and I have my application submitted to Vail Resorts and will be at the recruiting event in Boston August 22 and 23rd 2008. Should work out for me. I have a nice income from building web sites and no kids to support, no dog and oil prices will be so high I can shut my house down and save $2'44.00 bucks in heating bills.
May not even work at a Ski Resort. I have actually done very well building web sites. When you brake your shoulder you can't do anything but sit and watch TV. Not for me, I bought a laptop and learned the SEM and SEO business, (Internet Marketing). My plan is to work at a Ski Resort just enough to get the Free Ski Pass, Food, shuttle bus discounts and a couple other benefits. More than likely part time ski school and find my own place to live. Many, Many Ski Bums rent condos and rent out rooms. Find a nice place to live is easy up till Thanks Giving or there abouts then price's go up. To rent your own place can range from $800 a month to 10K a month. The Towns of Vail and Avon (Beaver Creek) dislike cars ! so they have one of the best shuttle bus systems of the USA Ski Resorts. Roaring Forks. If you can't drop everything like me and just go for it try getting a part time job at a resort within driving distance. Any of the Ski Resorts listed in the sidebar here would be glad to have you. Watch for blog posts about moving to a Colorado Ski Resorts to Work. Hope I have better luck this time.

Barnstable County Fair July 18 Thru 26, The Village People

Located at Barnstable County Fairgrounds RT 151 East Falmouth Massachusetts. The Barnstable County Fair is one of the oldest County Fairs in the USA. The Barnstable County Agricultural Society held its first fair, consisting primarily of livestock and handicraft exhibits, in October of 1844 at the County Court House in Barnstable Village.
Today The Barnstable County Fair has been an annual summer tradition on Cape Cod for 164 years. The Fair is a place where families can spend the day together and share experiences they can only experience at the Barnstable County Fair. There are animal shows, 4-H demonstrations, petting zoos, horticulture displays, rides, games, live music, arts & crafts, food and commercial vendors with various arts and crafts for sale. The Fair also has a huge Midway from Rockwell Amusements.
Click Entertainment For Schedule. Demolishion Derby is July 23rd, thats my favorite, and The Village People are performing July 25Th. Remember them.

A locals way of getting around Cape Cod. Cape Cod and Barnstable County has some of the worst traffic of any tourist destination you will find. People have been known to sit in traffic for hours to go just a few miles. Locals hardly ever sit in traffic. Why ? The back roads of Cape Cod. Before coming to Cape Cod Buy a good map or get to know your 3G Smartphone , iPhone or GPS Map System. There are roads all around the Barnstable County Fair Grounds that you can use. If you are coming from Hyannis towards mashpee/ East Falmouth look for Barnstable Road. Barnstable road forks off to the right just before the Mashpee rotary and go's around the rotary. Follow it to the 1st stop sign and go strait through and follow it to Rt 151 and turn right. Once you turn right onto 151 you may come to a dead stop. look on your map for Johns Pond and the roads around it (Right Side Of 151). These roads are extensive so don't get lost, but some of the come out behind the Fair Grounds. You can duck out of traffic instead of sitting in your car wasting gas.
If you are coming from the Falmouth, Bourne area look for Sandwich Rd. If you take a good look at a good map you will find roads coming in from every direction. Basiclly you want to avoid Rt 28 and rt 151 as much as possible till the last minute. Click Directions To Barnstable County Fair for Google Mapping to the Barnstable County Fair.