Rachel Walker’s story “Go Sell it On the Mountain” about Crested Butte Mountain Resort’s proposed expansion onto Snodgrass Mountain totally missed the point (HCN, 4/13/09). Colorado’s ski areas have gained approval for dozens of terrain expansions by claiming that more terrain would attract more skiers who would spend more money and boost local economies. However, […]
Vicki Shaw
Posted inMarch 21, 2005: An Empire Built on Sand
The environment is about all of us
I’d like to respond to one of your letter-writers, D.D. Sparks, in the Jan. 24, 2005, issue. Sparks hopes “that those who become so passionate about the environment realize there are other people in the world besides themselves.” I would have thought that any reader of High Country News would already know this fact, but […]