Re: First Backcountry ski area in US
Posted: Mon Feb 03, 2020 8:14 am
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Thank you for your comment. You should be troubled by this. Charging a fee for the right to access the backcountry is wrong. This is happening too much.Andy M wrote: ↑Thu Jan 30, 2020 7:29 pm... I read through the details, and, frankly, I find this very troubling. Perhaps I am overly sensitive since this is initially occurring in Colorado, but all of us should be concerned where this might lead. Although this instance is on private land, in a worst-case scenario, this could potentially lead to fee-oriented backcountry areas in national forest.
I assume you are talking about Hurricane Ridge. If so, Hurricane Ridge is nothing like what is being proposed in the original post. At Hurricane Ridge, you do have to pay the national park entrance fee, but you do not pay anything additional to recreate, whether it be on skis or snowshoes or on foot.Cannatonic wrote: ↑Sun Feb 02, 2020 1:48 pmwe already have MANY lodges and facilities dedicated to BC skiing all over the United States. The nicest one I've seen is a day lodge in Olympic National Park in Washington. Can't remember the exact name of it but you drive way up into the montains to get there...beautiful building and facility surrounded by disneyland of BC skiing. I believe it was a socialist facility i.e. free for all citizens of the realm