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High Country News Vol. 18.16, Sept. 1, 1986 Noisy Grand Canyon t/ See pages 4J 5 .I September 1, 1986 Vol. 18 No. 16 A Paper for People who Care about the West One Dollar "'r------....~........--....:::"_::=----- ........:: ~ ~ '"~ At steel1 Wolf-Creek Pass Ski area proposal goes smash . it did in pioneer days. The Continental yields it twice the snow of other the summer by car campers and Divide remains rugged and forested, resorts in the state. These south San backpackers, and by travellers on their and the valley meadows that stretch Juan Mountains are a trap for way to Mesa Verde and other Four out thousands of feet below the pass moisture moving up.from the moist, Corners spots. But for the most part, it are still irrigated in the summer to warm Southwest. is a declining or stagnating area, with raise hay. .While the area is in Colorado's traditional economies on the way out. The road was made famous in the snow belt, it is not in its ski belt. The Nothing is moving in. 1970sby C.W. McCall's ballad about a state's major ski areas -- the Vails, Nothing, that is, until developer hair-raising truck ride down U.S. 160. Aspens, Copper Mountains --sit hours Harvey Doerring came on the scene. ___ -'by Tamara Wiggans McCall used some artistic license, but to the north in the central portion of Inspired perhaps by the booming not much. The highway climbs and the state, along. the Interstate 70 Telluride ski area in the northwest San olf Creek Pass in south- descends the Dividebetween, the San corridor that has turned the mountain 'Juans, the California real estate western Colorado is a place Luis Valley on the northeast and' the valleys for 100 miles west of Denver developer and tax-shelter promoter W. of extremes. Its precarious town of Pagosa Springs on the into a linear, cedar-shaked develop- proposed a huge resort' for the valley curves, fierce winter white-outs and southwest via a series of hairpin ment of condos, chalets and shopping formed by the West Fork of the San breathtalting views have inspired and switchbacks, mudslides, slumps and centers. Juan River. The centerpiece of Wolf frightened travelers since it was a dirt concrete snowsheds that send fre- Because the southwestern pari of Creek Valleywas to be a new ski area track in pioneer times. quent avalanches over the road and the state is far from a major airport, on a ridge known as Windy Pass. Today, the road is paved, even into the valleys below. city or interstate, it has remained Windy Pass was identified as a widened in its worstspots, and a small Winter is the -most dangerous relatively free of resorts. The potential ski area in the Land and ski area sits atop the pass. time. The Wolf Creek Pass Ski Area's ranching, logging and mining econ- Nevertheless, the area looks much as location atop the Continental Divide omies in the area are supplemented in (Contznued on page 10) R Te LRl 2-High Country News -- September 1, 1986 edged by evergreens that weave for .._--- miles south of Coeur D'Alene. An Idaho subscriber told us agriculture, Our request last issue for help in not timber or mining, is the state's sending HCN to schools in our region largest income producer. brought an immediate order from the We suspect the people who read town council of Crested Butte, High Country News lead full lives Colorado. The town is concerned year-round, but their pace quickens in about a proposal by the Front Range the summer tourist season. Every- city of Aurora to divert water from the where we travelled, people were busy Gunnison River watershed under the entertaining out-of-town guests. But, Continental Divide. So it bought despite the demands of summer subscriptions for the three Aurora tourism, no one seemed ready to schools on our list. Town attorney Wes desert the Rockies for Secaucus, New Ught said he thought HCN could help Jersey. Aurora's young people understand the And, along our route, subscribers fallout from their community's rapid generously made room for us. They expansion. threw get-togethers to introduce us to Writer Ray Ring, whose account of other subscribers, offered us spare a Grand' Canyon helicopter -trip and rooms and backyard tent space, fed us whose recipes for car cookery grace and shared their views with us. this issue, tells us: "I'm taking care of In between visits with subscribers, little Molly (aged three months, we were tourists. We'saw Old Faithful weight 11 pounds, length. 22-plus in Wyoming, climbed Mount Ascen- inches) four days a week, and trying to sion and took in the Stampede and Billhoard outside Helena, Montana freelance when and where I can. We Rodeo in Helena, Montana, and aren't shy about taking the babe paddled a boat in a Salt Lake City HCN and is reassured that he's "not everywhere to Santa Fe art pond. out there all alone."' He would have galleries, a Taos country-western bar, In the Rocky Mountain states, the even a better sense of not being alone the ruins at Chaco Canyon... She"II short snow-free months also contain had he travelled those 3,500 miles probably turn out to be an several other seasons. To NJthan's with us. Among those we visited were: accountant. " (Angry letters from delight, July was raspberry season, In Rock Springs, Wyoming: accountant-readers should be sent to He proclaimed the best raspberries Katharine and John Collins and Paul Ring care of this newspaper.) Ring's were those found in Heron, . HIGH COUNTRY NEWS (ISSNI019115657) a Krza; in Pinedale, Elizabeth Blake and is published biweekly, except for one issue piece on car cookery, by the way, is Montana, subscriber's backyard. Howie Wolke (I saw him in the during July and one issue during January. by very funny. We hope to convince him Judging by the number of logging Pinedale jail); In HeNs Lander the High Country News Foundation, 124 Grand to do a followup on foreign-car Avenue, Paonia, Colorado 81428. Second-class trucks we encountered in Idaho, birthplace, Geoff and Berthenia postage paid at 'Paonia, Colorado. cookery. summer is also logging season. ~ O'Gara, Sarah Doll and Dave and May POSTMASTER: Send "address changes to The summer of 1986 is also a Raynolds; in Dubois, Budd and Emili HIGH COUNTRY NEWS, Box 1090, Paonia, CO 81428. Circulation director C-B. Elliott political season. Yard signs for Betts; in Kelly, Lorraine.Bonney, Greg TomBdl . tells us that, perhaps due to the lack of candidates from local sheriffs to U.S_ Ziegler and Scotty Dejanikus; in Editor E",en'/IIS a declared HCN crisis over the past senator dotted roadsides, We joined a Moose, Mardy Murie; in Jackson, few years, we are .receiving large McCall, Idaho, subscriber' at a Scott and Lisa Pierson, Laurie Thal, Ed Marston fund-raising dinner for Cecil Andrus. Ptlblisher numbers of two and rhree-year Holly Dill and Louise Murie MacLeod; renewals. Oh ye of too much faith. It was also a time to make. hay. in Wilson, Med Bennett and Betty Betsy Marston Jim Robbins called from Helena, Swathers and balers of all descriptions Woolsey; and in Teton Village, Erwin Editor Montana, to request six copies of the created multi-patterned fields. ' and Peggy Bauer.· _. .,~-'._-. Judy Moffatt last issue, which featured his detailed· For all the summer distractions, In Corwin Springs, Montana, Deve/opme1J1 account of Indian artifact-looting in HCN readers were occupied 'with Leonard and Sandy Sargent; in . conservation issues: the Union Pass Marjane Ambler the Southwest. Casually he mentioned Livingston, John and Hap Reuben; in Bruce Farling that he and his wife, Chere, became road in Wyoming's Bridger-Teton Bozeman, Con Gillam; in Helena, Glenn Oakley parents Aug. 18 of a little girl. Her National Forest, the Champion paper Adam and Nancy Mclane, Gail Soltz, Geoffrey O'Gara plant's water quality permit on, the C.L. Rawlins name is Annika and she weighed 3lbs. Sue Bryan, Dorothy Carrico and Ralph Pat Ford She's a healthy handful, Jim says, Clark's Fork River in Montana, Beer; in Stevensville, Kirk Thomp- Contributing Editors "but I caught a trout a few days before widening a highway through Provo son; in Heron, Judy Hutchins. Jen Brunner that was bigger." Canyon in Utah. In Rathdrum, Idaho, James Edilorial; Graphics A visitor last week from afar was I remember the comment of a McNamera; in Coeur D'Alene, Scott Albuquerque, New Mexico, chiroprac- woman reader on changes she' s ~,een Reed; in McCall, Nelle Tobias; in Mary Moran Research Associate tor Gordon Eatman. After reading in her home state. She said the state Ketchum, Sally Liman; and in Hailey, High Country News, he says he leaves was "like a personality" to her and Jon Marvel. Steve Hinchman the paper in his waiting room and she hated to see it "being cut away." In Salt Lake City, Utah, Gene Intern doesn't mind if someone walks off I'm encouraged by the optimism of Hatch, Calvin Giddings, George C.B. Elliott with it. We gave him some back issues a Utah Sierra Club chapter president Nickas; in Bountiful, Don Mabey; in Circulation / Production to spread around on his travels. who believes his group, in cooperation Sandy, Trudy and George Healy; and with others, is winning some battles. ) udy Heideman in Provo, Lillian Hayes. Typesetting Judy Moffatt, whose official title is The same young man said he feels a HCNs Development Director, took "sense of community" from reading 1 --the staff Tom Bell, Lander WY Michael Clark, Boulder CO her second annual Swing Around the Sally Gordon, Kaycee WY West in July with son Nathan, and Adam Mclane, Helena MT submitted the following account: -Kate Missett, Buflalo WY Wolke sounds recidivist J ecoid Panas, San Francisco CA It's embarrassing to confess we Garrett Ray, Fort Collins CO travelled 3,500 miles in 16 days Outfitter and Earth First! co- "My only regret is at the time I was Patrick Sweeney, Montrose CO through Colorado, .Wyoming, Mon- founder Howie Wolke used his sIX apprehended I'd only gotten a mile Herman Warsh, Emigrant MY Robert Wigingron, Boulder CO tana, Idaho and Utah.
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