I don’t understand the investment in being so butthurt about some pictures of people skiing pow on the internet. Usually it’s just bitter people that hate the world in general and do nothing but bitch about how they aren’t the only Rad Guy skiing pow anymore since fat skis were invented. Either that or they are kicking themselves for sitting around watching football half the winter instead of skiing pow.

Either way, all the people I know with that attitude are generally miserable to be around and especially to ski with. Frank and Brittney on the other hand are good people. You should ski with them sometime before your dreaded Internet Powder Frenzy Apocalypse hits! Until then enjoy being the internet powder police.

Perhaps you’re a newbie to the area, and can’t remember the days when snowmobiling out Gothic Road was allowed, and ALL that skiing out there was easily accessible. Hardly anyone used that access, so when they re-did the travel plan, there just weren’t enough people fighting the closure of a road that 1,000’s of people use every day in the summer. Perhaps if everyone knew about and used that resource, the Gothic closure never would have happened.

As for the county wanting to do something about the parking at Slate River, it’s a junk show out there– something should be done. The real problem will be if the Land Trust decides to make their tiny parcel non-motorized, which would effectively cut off access to Slate River. If more people know about the skiing out Slate because of this site, great!, more people to fight the potential closure.

Beyond that, I gotta tell you, I don’t see many people anywhere I go, whether I blog about it or not, outside of Heart Attack and the Anthracites, where I know I’ll see people anyway. People have always picked the low-hanging fruit and they always will– get a ladder and stop worrying about it.