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Cormyll666 t1_j2n6rc3 wrote

Holy hell on the original non /s post. I fell in love with Vermont 20 years ago when I biked across it. That said I’m a road bike/gravel ride/hiking guy.

I went up this last week with my partner and the “holiday skiing crowd” was absolutely bananas. Like everyone with money on the East Coast who has 5 kids just descended on VT all at once. I felt like I was watching ski school 2 but in real life and any minute some New Yorker was going to threaten to tear down the Rec center and turn it into air b n b condos.

Every Vermonter that has to interact with crowds and people like that deserves a goddamn medal and a pay raise.

And for the record, every business and person we met was absolutely kind and lovely and the restaurants were fine (although we made sure to go to every meal 2 hours early which was def big brain energy).

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sn0qualmie t1_j2nz3hf wrote

Agreed on the businesses being lovely and kind even during rush time. I just got back from what I admit was a very poorly-timed couple of days in Stowe (we're not even skiers, please don't ask what we were thinking), and it was definitely mobbed but our experience all weekend was that as long as we cheerfully accepted the crowds and erratic holiday hours, places cheerfully did their best to accommodate us. Ask nicely, wait patiently, tip well. It's so easy!

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5teerPike t1_j2opdat wrote

Yeah with Java Babas, I have no clue what they're talking about.

That place is always staffed by the owner & someone in the kitchen & they have been nothing but nice to me! But I say words like "please", "thank you", or even "abracadabra" so who knows.

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