Comments on: Backcountry Skiing News Roundup

By: Paul Joyce

Paul Joyce — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:41:53 +0000

Lou, please pass this on to your readers. We are just asking Red to play by the rules.
Do you like Wolf Creek Pass the way it is?
Do you believe in fair and open public process??

Stop the Swap!
Visit: http://www.friendsofwolfcreek.org
to sign a petition opposing the Wolf Creek Legislative Land Exchange and to learn more about what you can do to stop the “Pillage.”

Texas billionaire developer BJ “Red” McCombs seeks to construct a city of up to 10,000 people near the base of Wolf Creek Ski Area. After 20 years of attempts to circumvent public review of this project, McCombs is now seeking a legislative land exchange to gain more developable property and highway access with minimal if any public involvement and scrutiny of this project’s potentially significant adverse impacts. Despite all the promises, we are aware of no public benefit of performing this land exchange legislatively.

By: Lou

Lou — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:08:40 +0000

Hey, we just broke 1,000 Facebook fans! I guess I’ll go celebrate! Thanks everyone!

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:25:18 +0000

“But, why China can’t just go nuclear is mysterious to me.” Yes. Exactally. We run submarines off Nuclear power. I really think that science should pursue this source of power much more. It CAN be the cleanest source we have.

Great movie, flakes, by the way.

By: Jonathan Shefftz

Jonathan Shefftz — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 14:01:22 +0000

Jiminy Peak — the thing is massive. (The turbine, not the ski area…) Tower is 253′ and each of the three blades is 123′, so from the tip of the blade the entire structure is 386 feet tall. (No, I don’t understand the math either — I took that info from their website.) The really cool part is that when you’re skinning up this one slope early season, you’re looking up and seeing these massive blades rotating above the horizon. Looks like you’re skinning up into a weird alien structure in a weird combo ski / scifi film or something.

Anyway, Jiminy is doing fine, although it would be doing fine with or without a turbine.

Berkshire East is also installing a fairly sizable turbine.

By: Wayne Nicholson

Wayne Nicholson — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 13:38:32 +0000

Wonder how that ski resort in New England that put up a windmill to supply part of the electricity is doing. Maybe other ski resorts can do the same. In the summer, it sells the power generated and adds it to the power grid, so it’s great for helping the environment.

If anyone is interested, I can lookup the place.