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[protectgrandcanyon]

Sierra Club Invites Snowbowl Management to Consider the Meaning of Humility

Sierra Club Invites Snowbowl Management to Consider the Meaning of Humility

As Arizona Snowbowl rolls out its massive new Master Development Plan, they are making the rounds to sell the idea of turning the mountain into a year-round amusement park with rides, events, snowplay, and more, including a lot more tree clearing, soil damage, and artificial snowmaking with reclaimed water. If you would like to learn more about the ongoing injustices at Snowbowl, you can view…

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[feelfreeaz]

NY Times' article on snowmaking at Snow Bowl; A fight that's been going on for over ten years now. When this bomb drops, "'Everyone does well when the ski area does well,” said J. R. Murray, general manager of Snowbowl," just know that it's total bullshit. This is the largest city closest to the Grand Canyon. There's a thriving university. It's beautiful. Any skier or snowboarder that can afford to is going to go to Colorado to do so. Do you really want to base your economy on assholes from Scottsdale, Flagstaff? If using treated sewage water is actually safe for the ecosystem, is the best use of it really for white people to slide down a mountain on plexiglass? In a desert? I've been asking these questions for ten years now. I have yet to hear any answers that make sense or resemble anything close to reality.