Just Hide It in Your Desk Drawer
By Rocky Thompson on December 4th, 2006
The Ski Area Citizens Coalition—which is kind of like the Citizens on Patrol (C.O.P.S.) program in Police Academy 4—came out with their annual environmental score card rating 77 resorts across the country. Aspen, Alta, and Sundance are among the top scorers while Breckenridge and Copper come in last. Maybe those Colorado resorts should quit powering their lifts with dead baby seals.
via Get Outdoors
What does the SACC have to say about Snowbird’s soon to be completed Bass Hole? They are blasting, burrowing and auguring their way through mountain! Now Snowbird owner Dick Bass will allow even more out-of-shape tourists to flail through the sweet pow on the Mineral Basin side of his resort.
Reached for comment, the fat gapers said “Weeeeeeeooooooorrrrrwwwrrrrrr!! Nyuuuuauaaaeeeee!!” and asked that someone please throw buckets of water on them until the tide got back in. Besides, it’s not as if snowbird wasn’t already asshat town USA on the weekends. Maybe now people will stop looking at me funny when I say I don’t much like snowbird.
Posting in support of the term “Bass Hole.”
[...] What one of The Goat’s readers dubbed, the “Bass Hole†opened yesterday at Snowbird. The 600-foot tunnel connects Peruvian Gulch and Mineral Basin allowing skiers easier access to that side of the mountain. I know my friend Alex who once skied to the bottom of Mineral Basin only to find a closed chairlift would have been stoked on this idea about three years ago—that’s a lonely bootpack to the top. [...]