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Show Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, March 30-April 2, 2019 Continued from A-22 Mountain Town ed wiggling. “The snow was really heavy. If it had happened in December, I might have been able to pop right out of there. But that snow was so wet and heavy, it formed like cement around me. I was kind of on my side and barely had any room to move my legs or anything. I had my phone in my pocket but couldn’t get my hand down to my phone because the snow just had me. Luckily, I had both hands up by my head.” That may have made all the difference. He was able to move his hands just enough to carve out a portal of air. He thinks he was also able to create just enough of a passageway to allow oxygen to reach him. Then he stayed calm. “I only remember about 10 minutes of it, and then I remember waking up in the hospital.” He had been buried in the snow for up to two and a half hours. His core body temperature was 86 degrees. In that time of darkness, he remembers trying to channel to his wife. “I couldn’t get to my phone so I was trying to communicate with her mentally or through my energy, saying ‘I need help. I need help.’” He also had Tupac’s Greatest Hits playing in his ear and sort of trying to getting to a world of dance beyond this one. “But they were telling me, ‘Nope, you’re not ready. You forgot the ticket of the party so you gotta go back and remember the ticket next time, you idiot. You can see what it’s all about, but you can’t get in. You have to dance from the outside.’” Crested Butte likely to get an OK for terrain addition CRESTED BUTTE, Colo. – Vail Resorts continues on its mission to reshape Crested Butte Mountain Resort into a more valuable member of its money-making fleet of ski areas. Even under the prior owners, the Mueller family, and the owners before, Crested Butte felt the need to grow, to better compete with the larger ski areas of the West. But they had a hard time pushing forward the expansion, in part because of ill-advised designs (think Snodgrass Mountain) but also because ski area expansions take a lot of frontend money for planning. The Crested Butte News reports that the U.S. Forest Service has given the ski area preliminary approval for a 50-acre terrain expansion. Included in Vail’s plans are two new chairlifts and reconfiguration of an existing lift. One of the local environmental groups, High Country Conservation Advocates, raised no flags. Colorado towns take aim at nicotine use by youth ASPEN, Colo. – Two Colorado ski towns have been moving forward with efforts to discourage youthful use of nicotine. In Aspen, the city government will soon consider a law that would ban all flavored tobacco sales, including menthol cigarettes and many types of chew and vaping products. The intent is to discourage young people from experimenting with nicotine. “Dr. Kim Levin, medical officer for the Pitkin County Board of Health, said flavored tobacco products clearly intend to manipulate young customers into becoming lifetime customers. The law would be modeled on one adopted by San Francisco. That law includes all types of flavored tobacco products, including cigarettes, e-cigarettes, chewing tobacco, and cigars. All flavors, including menthol and spice flavors such as clove, would be banned. Jim True, the city attorney for Aspen warned the council that adopting the law could trigger a lawsuit. However, Aspen has restricted free market sales in the past with both plastic bags and, decades ago, a ban on the sale of furs. The U.S. Food & Drug Administration reported a 78 percent increase in adolescent use of e-cigarettes nationally within the last year. The Pitkin County Health Department found that the numbers for the Roaring Fork Valley were nearly three times higher than the national average. If Aspen adopts this restriction The Park Record A-23 on flavored tobacco products, it will be the first in Colorado. It was also the first in Colorado to raise the age for purchase of tobacco products from 18 to 21. In Crested Butte, town officials are considering a law that would prohibit the possession of tobacco and nicotine by those under the age of 18. Nobody disagrees with the intent of the proposed law, which is to create conversations between youth and adults about the dangers of tobacco use. But there’s considerable discussion about whether violations would force youngsters into the judicial system, possibly leaving a lasting record of guilt. “Think of a 14-year-old who gets caught at school with a vaping device and now has to be part of the court system,” one community resident told the Crested Butte News. “He or she has to go in front of a judge, and the record stays with them.” The executive director of the Gunnison County Substance Abuse Prevention Project sees this not as a criminalization, but rather as a useful tool in the pathway of education. The proposed law is based on one adopted by the town of Gunnison, where tobacco use by local students has declined. What’s with all the moose loitering in town of Jackson? JACKSON, Wyo. – What’s up with moose? They’ve been loitering around businesses and homes in Jackson in ways rarely seen. The long-legged, dopey-looking ungulates, as Mike Koshmrl of the Jackson Hole News&Guide describes them, have lingered near bus stops, lunched (on aspen leaves) at McDonald’s, and hung around the local Wells Fargo Bank. Some people have had trouble getting into their garages because of the moose. Their uncommon presence is really not a mystery. As of March 19, the snow stood 28 inches deep in Jackson, tied with 1952 as the deepest snowpack ever for that date in the town. Even with their long legs, the moose are having trouble getting around. Plus, there’s not much to eat after a long winter. As for why hang on roads? Because it’s hard to get off, owing to the berms that have accumulated after a long, hard and wonderful winter. Good things come to those who don’t wait. Why wait when you can enjoy your own home in Park City Canyons Village finest ski-in/ski-out location this winter? 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