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Show News from other resorts It's a good thing to learn from experience but even better to learn from other people's experience. In that spirit we offer you a glimpse of some newsworthy highlights high-lights from other Rocky Mountain Resorts. Some of the items might make you wish we'd thought of it first, and some will make you glad it happened to them and not us. Crested Butte, Colorado May 27... Kebler Pass, Crested Butte's equivalent of the Mirror Lake Road and a favorite summer shortcut to Joe's Bar in Paonia, sometimes some-times opens by Memorial Day. This year, saturation and runoff have carried away part of the road which will delay the opening at least a month. Sound familiar? fami-liar? According to the Crested Butte Pilot, area residents have begun debating the severity of flooding from Coal Creek and the Slate River. The paper quotes Crested Butte's Mayor Lyle McNeil as saying he considers the creek to be running high when the water starts "slapping "slap-ping the sides of the old town hall." If the mayor were to ask Park City's Daly Avenue residents what they thought, it would be, "Stop debating and start sandbagging." Jackson Hole, Wyoming, May 25... Park City's Cowboy Bar, even considering the exotic dancers and air bands, has nothing on Jackson's R-J Bar, which sponsored a "Swimwear preview fashion show." The Jackson Hole News led their business section with the story and some scintillating photos. According to the paper, "Nary a seat was vacant." Is that Scott Arnold we hear saying "Now why didn't we think of that?" Evidently, Jackson is considering con-sidering a few other risque promotion possibilities. The Jackson Motel-Hotel Association Asso-ciation has decided to propose pro-pose that "small town casino gambling" be legalized. According Ac-cording to the News (Jackson (Jack-son Hole, that is) the association is not planning to encourage a Caesar's Palace or an MGM Grand, just a few "clean, small casinos." The Association hopes that the gambling will help boost lodging occupancy rates and they also pointed out that Jackson voters could earmark ear-mark tax revenues from the gambling operations for whatever they wanted; May be that's one we'll let Jackson wrassle with and see how it turns out. Mammoth Lakes, California, May 26... Look out! The vigilantes are riding again. But this time they have rallied for a truly unimpeachable cause. According to Mammoth's paper, The Review, they are not out lynching-they are filling potholes. About the time Park City's Realtors and the Chamber Bureau were organizing their second cleanup day, representatives from a Mammoth Lakes firm were donating asphalt, money and manpower for an attack on the town's potholes. pot-holes. Another short note from Mammoth: The Review's Mrs. Murphy, the local gossip columnist, commended commen-ded the Plaza Theater for pulling Monty Python's "The Meaning of Life" from its schedule and replacing it with "Flashdance." We're wondering if Mrs. Murphy actually saw "Flashdance" and if she has since regretted giving it her sanction. It's not exactly Sunn Classic material, which is what we think Mrs. Murphy is really after. |