Spring Survey Responses A Wow, Fling Golf, La Nina Coming Soon, More Cycling Series.

We are truly awed and grateful for the incredible, enthusiastic responses we’ve been getting to our Spring Subscriber Survey 2016. If you’re familiar at all with surveys, you know that response rates are often in the single digits. So far, we’ve received fantastic 27.5% response rate. To us, that means our readers (you) are engaged and interested in what we are trying to accomplish. Thank you so very much. We will report results after we dig into the data.

Our stories this week venture into the world of golf, well, sort of. Fling Golf is a new take on the old game. Check out the video in the story. Flinging is really different. Will golfers like it?

We’ve been watching the weather lately as the spring and summer months are when winter patterns start to emerge. Right now, the El Nino we’ve seen create unusual snow amounts both east and west is fading away. In its place comes La Nina, cooler sea surface temperatures in the Eastern Pacific. This change will definitely play a role in next season’s snow predictions. Check out the story and resources for further study.

Our Northwest correspondent John Nelson has sent a really neat article for the Cycling Series about Arches National Park in Utah. We have learned from our survey that many of you cycle in the non-snow season and Moab, UT, home base for Arches, is a center of activity. Some amazing pictures, too, from John.

Next Week

We will be updating you on the attempt to eliminate free skiing for seniors at Cannon Mountain, NH. We’ve heard that there has been resistance to making that change. We’ll see.

We will also continue our Cycling Series as well as the usual fun stuff.

Finally, we plan to give you a first peek from the highlights of the survey. A quick glance shows there are so many wonderful ideas we can use. Once again thank you so very much for your terrific response.

And remember, there are more of us every day, and we aren’t going away.