We both enjoy the winter sports even in our late 60s...but it IS nice having a CA home to retreat to when it gets to be too much around March.
I’ve done the second home thing as we had cabin at 7K altitude in S. CA. But it became a headache as every time we visited the cabin as it was all about working on the cabin. Found out homes don’t like being unoccupied and when you leave a home empty for long periods of time, it starts deteriorating and seems to require a whole lot of maintenance and $$ I really didn’t have. It was fun for about 4 years then it became a pain.