I hope you guys fighting this prevail. If you think my words will help, I will write. If you think a non-resident will only hurt the cause, I will refrain.
To me, a ski resort is third only to mountaintop removal and subdivisions when it comes to raping the mountains.
If you want to see the evidence, go to Colorado and weep.
The Wasatch have been chewed up enough already. So many mountaintops there afford a view of the affront of ski development.
You westerners tend not to like hearing us easterners pipe up, but take it from me-- I have been visiting your world every year for almost 15 years now, and every year, your landscape looks more like ours-- houses and office parks marching on and on into where nature once reigned.
Take a stand and dig in before you become like the East. Laugh if you want, but it's coming; take it from the outsider who sees not the little cuts but the gaping gashes.