July 3, 2011

Gearing up for silly season

Business up here is dependent on the tourist dollar. We have four seasons. With this big holiday weekend (Canada Day on the 1st and our own Independence Day tomorrow) we are seeing the beginning of the busiest season of the whole year. People come up to camp, to hike, to stay in the area for a week or more and the bakery (and grocery store) offer a needed source of treats and groceries for the hungry traveler. Things will die back down for a couple of weeks and then this season starts to seriously kick in around the third week of July and it runs through September. This is when everyone up here makes their money. Life becomes a blur. When school opens up in the Fall, business drops off a lot -- we begin to see the familiar faces of those nomads who follow the skiing season, flying down to Chile during our Summer and then, Mt. Baker ski area opens up. This is our second best season -- there are a lot of people coming here but they are coming from Bellingham and points beyond and are focused on getting up to the mountain to ski. Around 1:30, they are cold, wet and bone tired and they are then focused on getting back home. Not too many are focused on getting a nice hot bowl of soup or a fresh scone. Finally, when Baker closes, we have the dead zone. The nomads move away and it's just the locals for a couple of months. This is nothing unexpected, we know this cycle and plan for it. Part of the cycle of life... Posted by DaveH at July 3, 2011 6:38 PM
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