Birch Ridge Inn Summer Web Site

Birch Ridge Inn Summer Web Site

While we have seen the last run of skiing for the year, and our last guests of the season have departed, Mary and I still have been pretty busy all week.

The kitchen project that we have all been working wrapped up on Friday. The new floor is in place. All of the walls have been scrubbed. The stainless steel has been steam cleaned. The dining room floor was stripped and re-sealed. The carpet was cleaned. All in all, a surprising amount of work for an area which will look just about the same to guests as before we started.

At the inn, Mary and her assistant, Michalyn, have been going through each room, inspecting them to put together a work schedule for the summer. They have also started to work outside cleaning up some of the gardens which are not still snow covered. Mary has pots of top soil all over the inn starting her Dahlia's. They will not get transferred to the gardens until late May or early June.

I have been a little busy as well. Our main web site, birchridge.com has been updated for the summer. All of our room rates for the 2007/2008 season are now available. Golf packages with rounds of golf at the Killington Resort Course and Green Mountain National can now be priced for the 2007 summer season using our proprietary Golf Package Calculator. Ski packages for the 2007/2008 ski season can also be estimated using our Ski Package Calculator, although ski ticket prices are only estimated as it will be a few months before the Killington Resort releases ski ticket prices for next season.

In addition to skiing and golf packages, I have also put on the web site package information for the Killington Wine Festival to be held this year from July 12 through July 15th. Over the next couple of months, I will be posting updates on the Wine Festival, as the wine distributors to the Killington region finalize the list of vintners and winery's who will be participating in the event.

In the Killington area, skiing and riding is still going on. For the first week of May, the mountain will be down to one lift (Superstar). The planned closing date of the resort is Sunday May 6th, so if you have the urge to take a few last turns, act on them soon. We are all still waiting for the sale of the resort from the American Skiing Company to SP Land/Powdr Corp to take place. There are all kinds of rumors around town about when it will happen and why it has taken so long to execute. But we have it from several good sources that the sale will take place. The complexity of the deal, with the myriad combinations of private land and leased land from the State of Vermont, appears to be taking a little longer than planned to sort out. Of course, with most of the winter visitors gone, it is all great grist for the locals to talk about as we all congregate at local watering holes. So it goes....

I am also starting to think about golf for personal enjoyment. I have not gotten the clubs out yet, but the urge to take a few swings in increasing as the days grow warmer...It will be soon... Think Spring!