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Show The Park Record' Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, August 14-17, 2004 MOUNTAIN TOWN NEWS B-7 Mountainfands Community A Roundup of news,: siffier Wesierniski Housing Trust Tahoe ski area's Mt. Rose jostled to a higher elevation out a lot of angst and anger." Rachael Richards, a fervent believer in mass transit, is wary of INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. - Semaraus idea. Raising parking Us probably not enough to war- fees to discourage locals from rant revising the trail maps, but driving into town could exacerMt. Rose has gained just a little bate the perception that Aspen is bit of vertical in the last eight too expensive, she said. months. A swarm of 1,600 tiny The town is considering new earthquakes coincided with a parking structures. slight shift in a Global Positioning System station on Slide •Smokers ordered to streets Mountain, where the ski area is in Banff located. The mountain rose 8 millimeters, or about 3/8ths of an BANFF, Alberta -- Ashtrays inch, researchers said. disappeared from bars and "We've been watching earth- restaurants in Banff on Aug. 1 as quakes for 30 years in the Tahoe a new town law went into effect. area, and have never witnessed Establishments that do not an earthquake swarm anything want to order their smoking like this," said Ken Smith, a patrons out onto the sidewalk to research seismologist for the puff have the option of creating Nevada Seismological designated smoking rooms, Laboratory at the University of although waiters and waitresses Nevada. Reno. cannot be asked to provide servCausing the earthquakes is ice in such rooms. molten rock that is migrating 20 Not much grumbling was evimiles below the surface of the dent among those businesses conSierra Nevada. But there's no tacted by the Rocky Mountain need to fear lava flows on the ski Outlook, but then it's not 40 slopes, say experts contacted by below outside either. the Tahoe Daily Tribune. Chances of a volcanic eruption •Vail putting minorities on within current lifetimes is almost slopes and in front lines nil. Nearly all the recent earthAVON. Colo. - Vail Resorts quakes were too small to be felt. has committed $600,000 in cash Several decades ago, however, a and in-kind contributions during 6.0 jolt near Truckee damaged the the next two years to a program dome on the Nevada state capitol that aims to introduce more several dozen miles away. An minorities to snowsports. even larger earthquake, with a As well, the corporation has magnitude of 6.5, struck the area agreed to a goal of putting at least in 1887. 10 minorities into front-line positions, such as ski patrol, lift oper•Cabins in woods start at ations and mountain operations, $450,000 at each of its resorts. The corporation owns Heavenly in FRASER. Colo. - A newer California and the Vail, Beaver real estate project between the Creek. Breckenridge, and towns of Fraser and Winter Park Keystone resorts in Colorado. has adopted the name "cabins" Alpino, the sponsoring group, for a townhome project. Prices was founded by Roberto Moreno, for the MooseHorn Cabins start a former ski instructor and ski at about $450,000. reports the patroller in Colorado's Summit Winter Park Manifest. County. He argues, as do most demographers, that if the ski •Free or cheap parking is resorts arc to thrive in years sacrosanct everywhere ahead, they must more aggressively reach out to minority ASPEN, Colo. - It has lots of skiers, including the fast-growing mass transit. It has an environ- Hispanic population. If they do mental conscience. Aspen also not, says Moreno, ski resorts will has a parking issue that makes its even more resemble country commercial core congested and clubs for the rich - unconunfriendly to pedestrians. scionable, especially given that To make Aspen's core area they are. located on federal lands. m©r<©.. pedestrian-friendly;'- says-1 c •" .Moreno, ami others, also argife^i Couhcilman Tim Semrau* tlie city* , 'that.^-truly reach 'out t6'minori:'" should raise prices of parking and ties, ski areas should make constrip the two-hour-free parking scious efforts to diversify their zone from the nearby residential front-line personnel. If minorities areas. "If we had the courage to do not see others of their own inconvenience locals, we could kind on ticket windows, lifts, and make this pedestrian-friendly other areas, they are less likely to overnight." he said. stick around beyond the hard part Other council members didn't of being beginning skiers. necessarily dismiss Semraifs sugDuring the next two years, Vail gestion, reports The Aspen will give Moreno $10,000 for Times, but neither did they rush administrative purposes and also to embrace it. Mayor Helen provide 2,500 packages (including Klanderud offered the most skep- lift, lessons, rentals, and lunches) ticism. "These are people who to be used at any of the compafeel priced out of the community ny's four resorts in Colorado. in every which way," she said. Youngsters from Denver, where "Why add another layer to it? Hispanics and blacks make up You're not going to do that with- about half of the population, will By ALLEN BEST Record guest writer Several people camping at a reservoir had been bothered by raccoons, and for some reason this led to a Rottweiler named Misha being tied to the passenger side-door of the Jeep belonging to Randy Dean Randels. Randels left at about 3:30 a.m. toward Silverthorne, apparently not hearing the screams and shouts of the other campers. The dog could not keep up, but then was drug for 18 miles, leaving a bloody stain weaving down the middle of the highway. Newspapers cited no evidence at his trial that he meant to do it, but the judge was indignant that Randels had disposed of the dogs body "like a piece of trash" next •San Juan snow study tied to to a 7-Eleven garbage bin. "She global warming didn't deserve that," said Judge Edward Casias. "No pet does." SILVERTON, Colo. - For The dog's owner asked that such a tiny town, Silverton has a Randels be spared jail. The judge couple of organizations with big nonetheless ordered a month in names and perhaps even bigger jail, 200 hours of community servambitions. Among these organi- ice, a $500 fine, and counseling for zations is the Center for Snow use of drugs and animal-abuse. and Avalanche Studies. The center aims to analyze •B.C. cabinet to decide snow system processes, because Jumbo Glacier Resort the snow from mountains is so important to people and their INVERMERE, B.C. - The key enterprises, and also because environmental agency in the snow can also be so dangerous. provincial government has issued Operating on a shoestring, the its report about the proposed two-year-old organization first Jumbo Glacier Resort. The resort got a Forest Service grant and is projected to have 6,250 beds at now will get National Science buildout and would be located on Foundation money to do the field Crown land about 30 miles (55 work for a study about the effects kilometers) west of Invermere. of desert dust deposits on the The report from the snowpack in the San Juan Environmental Assessment Mountains. A preliminary experi- Office may not be released until ment last winter suggested that after a decision is made by the twice as much energy can be provincial government cabinet on absorbed by a dust-contaminated Sept. 17. A key opposition group, snow surface as compared to a the Jumbo Crock Conservation "clean" snow surface. Society, is having fits about the The question is not merely secrecy of the environmental academic. Many climate scientists review. "Today is a dark day for expect the rising temperatures democracy in B.C." said group caused by greenhouse gas emis- representative Meredith sions to result in less precipitation Hamstead. in the American Southwest. Reflecting at last significant Hence, as temperatures rise, local opposition, the Invermere more dust blows, and hence more Valley Echo has been sharply critsnow melts. And because there is ical of the project. It would use less snow, the dark earth sops up 5,500 hectares of Crown land. more heat from the sun (than does snow, which reflects the •Major Revelstoke ski area sun's energy), and the atmos- needs sign off from locals phere gets even warmer. REVELSTOKE, B.C. - The •Man jailed for dragging dog clock is ticking for developers who want to expand a small ski to death on highway area at Revelstoke into a major i K&EMlvILING,' -Colo. " - international destination resort. Lately, the word "horrific" is getThe developers, Mt. ting a lot of use - and probably MazlCenzie Resort Ltd., have now misuse. .An annoying twisted received conditional approval ankle? To some, it's horrific. But from the provincial government when a judge used "horrific" to for their master plan for the describe how a dog was dragged to its death last year in Summit Please see Silverton, B-8 County, he was on target. be given the trips based on performance in school and community service. Furthermore, Keystone will provide up to 1,000 discounted lift tickets for participants nxt January on a day to be called Diversity Day. "We have a responsibility to show leadership, and that's what we're doing," said Bill Jensen, president of Vail Mountain. Moreno told Ski Area Management, a magazine, that Vail's program is "probably the most insightful marketing move made by any ski company since the industry started embracing snowboarders." 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