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Show Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, October 13-16, 2018 M The Park Record OUNTAIN TOWN NEWS A Roundup of News from Other Western Ski Resort Communities Mountain Town News Early on, good signs seen in Vail’s takeover of CB CRESTED BUTTE, Colo. – Vail Resort now owns the Crested Butte ski area, and the early word from people who work there is that the “new owners of the resort are really pretty good,” reports Mark Reaman, editor of the Crested Butte news. “The employee benefits appear to be an upgrade from the previous ownership, and Vail Resorts managers are focused and professional and have the people humming in anticipation of a new ski season.” Reaman says his community seems to want to figure out ways to collaborate with the corporation to “maintain the uniqueness of Crested Butte while skimming off some of the benefits that money can bring to a ski area.” Aspen writer gets message of climate hope in NY Times ASPEN, Colo. – Among writers with opinions, especially those who bend just a bit left, it gets no bigger than the op-ed section of the Sunday New York Times. On Sunday, Auden Schendler of the Aspen Skiing Co. was there. “It’s unlike anything I’ve experienced in writing. I’ve written for the Los Angeles Times and the Denver Post. The Post has a circulation of 700,000, and the LA Times even more. But the New York Times is the paper of record. It’s a big deal,” said Schendler on Monday even as messages continued to be posted on Twitter and Facebook. Schendler, the vice president for sustainability with the Aspen Skiing Co., and his co-author, Andrew P. Jones, wrote an essay headlined: “Stopping Climate Change is Hopeless. Let’s Do It.” The Times added this subtext: “It begins with how we live our lives every moment of every day.” The op-ed was prepared with advance notice of a new report from the International Panel on Climate Change. The report, said the New York Times in a news story on Monday “paints a far more dire picture of the immediate consequences of climate change than previously thought and says that avoiding the damage requires transforming the world economy at a speed and scale that has no documented historic precedent.” Anticipating that news, Schendler and Jones asked “how do we even get out of bed in the morning?” The answer, they said hopefully, is that “if the human species specializes in one thing, it’s taking on the impossible.” They go on to outline their approach, concluding with this: “Perhaps the rewards of solving climate change are so compelling, so nurturing and so natural a piece of the human soul that we can’t help but do it.” Schendler said he usually gets messages attacking him when he is published. In this case, the message of hope produced comments of support. Among those endorsing the essay was Bill McKibben. “As these folks point out, the climate fight—like every movement for justice—is a long daily grind against strong foes. The work can’t be avoided,” he wrote on Twitter. Why Alaska has record heat but it’s snowing in Rockies TRUCKEE, Calif. – Last year, the worst fires of the year occurred on the West Coast during October. This year could be better. Daniel Swain, on the California Weather Blog, points to something called the Omega Block, one of the highest pressure systems to form over the Northern Hemisphere for decades. It has taken up residence over Alaska, producing record-breaking if relative warmth even into the high As Park City’s elite property manager, we are ple recognition for our hard work providing the very our owners and guests. These accolades come w that we work hard for our owners and guests thr websites, thousands of happy guests, and a team service and detail to attention first. 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