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Please take a sec and help Crested Butte locals
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If you support putting ski lifts on Mt. Snodgrass which is adjacent to Mt. Crested Butte please take a second and join the recently formed Coalition for Lifts on Snodgrass page here :
http://www.liftsonsnodgrass.org/
This is a very important issue in Crested Butte as CBMR's application into the NEPA process was denied last year by a National Forest supervisor who claimed it "lacked public support" which is complete BS. CBMR is hard at work on an appeal and we need as many supporters as possible before this Friday's meeting with Forest Service Ranger Pena. Thanks for any help!
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i'm not from crested butte but i've been there a bunch and i don't know what kind of terrain Mt. Snodgrass has but don't you think it would be better to keep it as BC terrain and not put lifts on it??
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the reason why they are trying to open mt snodgrass is because it has more easy and intermediate terrain. Crested butte currently doesn't have that much easy terrain as it is and that makes it kind of tough for people who are just learning (gapers and tourists). So if you want more people in crested butte and more like the other places in colorado with tons of tourists and $20 burgers then sign the petition. if you want it the way it is ($1.85 pbrs at the butte 66, small town ski atmosphere) then don't sign it. (a couple of my friends work there and I went there over christmas break, no pow when i was there but doooope terrain)
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And this would give us the best backcountry gates in Colorado, while allowing us to be economic in the future. Like someone said above we don't have very much intermediate terrain and this would greatly help increase skier visits. If you have been here in the last year you probably saw how hurting our community is. Those of us that choose to live here have to make a living somehow, and we 100% depend on CBMR to succeed. They could ultimately pull the plug on a very mediocre business if they are not able to expand and increase visits at a hard to get to destination resort.
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Actually the ridiculously rich people who make up half of CB and don't allow for development keep it the way it is, not the lack of blues.
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I live in CB, and ski their just about everyday. Frankly I dont want lifts on snodgrass. The place is plenty big, and expanding the resort will only bring more gay tourists.
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I agree with this position, though I don't live there. Although, with Snodgrass open for intermediates, the gapers will be taken off of the main mountain and put on a self-contained unit (Snodgrass). Which can only be positive.
I guess it's more the principle of the thing. USFS approved a much larger proposal, then CB made it smaller, reapplied, and got denied. Or at least that's how I understand it.
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