Friday, August 19, 2011

Skiers have rights, too. Because recreation and core beliefs are the same thing.

We just read this poignant piece by Mary Sojourner regarding the Snow Bowl effluent snow-making on San Francisco Peaks. She writes about going to the resistance camp on the mountain
A mile or so of the road is reduced to one lane because the ski resort is dynamiting and gouging a trench in which they plan to lay pipes in which treated wastewater will be carried to make fake snow. Thousands of Native Americans, their supporters and environmentalists have battled the Snowbowl’s plan for at least ten years — in the courts, on the streets, in the parking lot of the resort, in front of Flagstaff’s local newspaper office, on-line and, most recently, by locking themselves down to the equipment that is now lacerating the face of the mountain.
Fucking capitalism. Once again.

Friends don't let friends ski the Snow Bowl.

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