Hard to believe that we are on the final stretch of 2010 and in little more than a week we will be ushering in the New Year. But before this year comes to a close and we reflect on what has passed and what is to come, we at Chilmark Research want to wish all of our faithful readers and contributors (yes, all who comment on this site are contributors) a joyous holiday however you chose to celebrate it. We also want to wish you continued good health to you and yours in the New Year to come.

And for our clients, we wish to extend a special thanks for your continued support of Chilmark Research. Our desire is to not only meet your expectations for the custom research services and reports we provide, but to exceed them providing you the knowledge and intelligence needed to guide your own internal decision process(es).  In the year to come we will continue to expand our areas of coverage, more on that next week.

In the meantime, since I am writing this from the Chilmark Research’s western office in the mountains of Colorado and it is ski season after all, I leave you with a little Christmas gift. Now this may be lost on those who do not ski, but for those who do, much of the film footage is from my favorite mountain Aspen Highlands which has the Highlands Bowl. Now to get to that Bowl, you need to hike in your ski gear up the ridge of the mountain for 35min. But once on top, at ~12,500ft above sea-level, the views are incredible and skiing the Bowl after a fresh dump of powder (yesterday it was 2-3ft deep in fresh powder) is in a word EPIC and no I’m not talking about some software vendor from the flatlands of the midwest.

Merry Christmas One and All.

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