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Show A-22 Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, March 30-April 2, 2019 The Park Record M C OUNTAIN TOWN NEWS M A Roundup of News from Other Western Ski Resort Communities ALLEN BEST Mountain Town News Need CBD oil for pain? East West Health is the only clinic in Utah to carry Charlotte’s Web, the World’s Most Trusted Hemp Extract. Charlotte’s Web™ is a whole plant hemp extract containing the entire range of U.S. Government patented cannabinoids. Health issues CBD oil can help manage: INFLAMMATION MIGRAINES INSOMNIA ANXIETY CHRONIC PAIN MENSTRUAL CRAMPS We also have topical creams for your aches and pains. Come by our office to see all of the Charlotte’s Web products we have to offer. East West Health 1790 Sun Peak Dr., #A-102 Park City, UT 84098 435-640-1353 Penthouse Living Assessing how snowmaking helps cause climate change ASPEN, Colo. – Last week a federal judge ruled that the federal government must at least acknowledge the climate change impacts created by fossil fuels when deciding whether to issue oil and gas leases in Wyoming. In Colorado, an environmental group is asking a parallel question about ski areas and snowmaking. Wilderness Workshop argues that the U.S. Forest Service – the landlord for most of the ski areas in the West – needs to do a comprehensive analysis of the impacts of increased water diversion from rivers to endangered fish in the Colorado River, changes in runoff patterns, and increased energy use associated with the expansion of snowmaking. “Climate impacts are often meaningless on a project-level, but can be significant on a program level,” says Peter Hart, staff attorney for the group. The Forest Service has approved expanded snowmaking at Vail, Copper Mountain, Steamboat, and other ski areas in Colorado in recent years, and now it is looking at allowing expanded snowmaking and terrain on Aspen. Ski areas have been adding snowmaking almost annually for decades to remove the uncertainties of weather. The warming climate will have a general effect of shortening the ski season and more often replacing snow with rain. In response to the lessened reliability of natural snow, the ski companies “need to use more diesel fuel and coal to generate the electricity to pump water to the snow guns and fan it out over the slopes,” says the Wilderness Workshop. “They rely on diesel-powered snow cats to spread the snow into a skiable surface.” Words sharpening as youth take to streets about climate WHISTLER, B.C. – Students from many and perhaps all the ski towns of the North American West joined hundreds of thousands from elsewhere in the world on March 15 in leaving their classrooms to vent about the absence of adequate response to the risks of climate change. In Wyoming, 30 students marched under the famed arches of elk antlers in the Jackson town square carrying signs such as “Denying Climate = Denying Us,” and “The climate is changing so why don’t we?” In Utah, students from the high school in Park City joined their compatriots in Salt Lake City to urge more action. In British Columbia, the youth climate change march was a family matter in the household of Clare Ogilvie, editor of Whistler’s Pique newsmagazine. Her son, Matthew, had spearheaded the march. It was entirely his own endeavor, she disclosed in her weekly column, although she fully supported it. Like many ski towns, Whistler has failed to meet its climate goals. Community greenhouse gas emissions have grown 16 percent since 2015. All around her, said Ogilvie, is evidence that Whistler can’t deal with the little things. “Youth are frustrated and dumbfounded that adults can’t create change to address obvious problems, such as propane fireplaces burning all day outside at local businesses with no one sitting around them or shops opening their doors during a polar vortex, or why we still have single-use plastic bags or … well, the list was lengthy.” Unlike on social media and, to a great extent the national press, words of criticism in most ski towns newspapers tend toward restraint. It’s harder to get outuse the verbal knives in the newspaper when you run into the other person at the rec center. The Whistler editor, though, accused an elected councilor in the municipality of “head-inthe-sand thinking” for opposing creation of a coordinator to push along the Community Energy and Climate Action Plan. “That is exactly the type of denial that has landed the world where it is today, facing an environmental crisis,” she wrote. More on the receding glaciers of Montana WHITEFISH, Mont. – How long before the glaciers in Glacier National Park will be gone? Not any time soon, reports Erich Peitzsch, a physical scientist from the U.S. Geological Sur- T vey. “Glaciers are going be around for awhile,” he told the Whitefish Pilot. “They’re not going to look like they did in the 20th century, e and in the future they won’t look like they do today. But they will I be around.” I In 2017, the U.S. Geological r Survey reported that the glaw ciers had reduced in size by 37 l percent. The decline has been k driven by temperature increases, h which in northwestern Montana o have been 1.8 times greater than m the global average. Upper elevah tions have been warming faster t than lower elevations. h Housing doesn’t get more d affordable than squatting h ASPEN, Colo. – Why live in o a down-valley trailer when housh es in Aspen are sitting empty? e That was the thought proo cess for two men who have been charged with squatting in r an unoccupied house. To make i matters worse for the two men, u police found heroin on the premb ises as well as a stolen trailer and a a stolen motorcycle. t The Aspen Daily News reported that the house is registered to m a couple that lives in California. w One told a Pitkin County shers iff’s deputy that they had been w trying to sell the house and did e not have caretakers for the propn erty. The couple’s daughter told the H deputy she had noticed the utilio ty bill was higher than usual for o the last month for a property that t was supposed to be vacant. y t g A story to beat all stories n from a snowslide survivor w CRESTED BUTTE, Colo. – g Alex Theaker will likely have t the most interesting personal story in anybody’s room for the C rest of his life. The 28-year-old a Crested Butte resident almost lost his life in early March when – he went to shovel at a house in m Mt. Crested Butte, the slope-side M town. v He sat down with Mark Reae man of the Crested Butte News to share his full story. He thought t the roof might be ready to avae lanche, but was very close to getting his work done. He wasn’t quick enough. Buried, he immediately start- Please see Mountain Town A-23 Raise the Art of Après in a Penthouse that’s the Envy of Park City Lift’s residences are the peak of a rejuvenated Canyons Village, with expansive outdoor living rooms that face a breathtaking panorama. 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