Opinion: Don’t mess with California’s mountains
By Tom Mooers, Denver Post
Dear Colorado:
Welcome to Lake Tahoe!
We’ve been reading in our local California papers, as well as the Denver Post, about the new relationship between Aspen Skiing Co. and KSL Capital Partners. And of their subsequent purchases of IntraWest and Mammoth ski resorts — quite a dowry!
You likely share in the stoke for the new couple’s community property — an incredible list of mountains that reads like a bucket list for American skiers: Colorado’s Aspen and Steamboat resorts and California’s Mammoth and Squaw — with more rumored soon.
We have one request in return: don’t mess with our mountains. We hold our Sierra Nevada and its incredible places — Yosemite, Lake Tahoe, etc. — in high regard. And we defend them with great ferocity.