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Pass is a money scheme

I just about spit my coffee out while reading the article on Mt Spokane’s new uphill policy. This is one more asinine move by the Mt Spokane 2000 group.

This is plain and simple a money fleecing of the skiing public. They are not providing any services; skiers hiking up are doing so to access untracked snow, not groomed snow. As for parking, that is already paid for with a Sno-Park permit.

I believe the main reason for this policy is threefold: a.) money b.) keeping first tracks for the ski patrol c.) concerns about free skiing by hiking up and skiing the backside chairs where there are no ticket checkers. I see this pass as unenforceable as they have no jurisdiction to ticket parked vehicles. Maybe they will threaten to push the cars over the bank like Al Mettler in the 1960s! I will simply park at the Sno-Park lot and skin up the road to the bald knob and up the south face.

Mr van Loben Sels may know how to run a winery but is clueless when it comes to running a ski resort.

Ed Crosby

Spokane

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