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SkiLink’s Footprint

SkiLink’s Footprint

| March 13, 2012 | 13 Comments

Last Thursday I had a chance to head up to Big Cottonwood Canyon and tour through the proposed Talisker SkiLink route. The actual details of this Wasatch abomination have been kept quite, or at least from public view, but by locating the beginning and end points, I was able to generate GPS waypoints of where […]

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Wasatch Prepares for Beheading

Wasatch Prepares for Beheading

| February 28, 2012 | 44 Comments

Utah politics has positioned the Wasatch backcountry for its final death blow. Currently there is not one, not two, not even three, but NINE ski area expansions in the works. In the past these expansionist fantasies were thwarted by factors such as public input (90 plus percent are opposed), NEPA regulations, drinking water concerns, local […]

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