Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...burn up as many as 500 calories. Gisa Wagner, 34, a New Yorker raised in Bavaria, echoes a thousand similar rhapsodies. "There is something incredibly sensuous about skiing. The feeling of your body speeding down a mountain is like a narcotic." Peter Seibert, chairman of the company that runs Colorado's Vail area (see box page 60), puts it this way: "Skiing is a total experience. You can be completely absorbed in what you are doing. You can take a problem onto the golf course with you, but you can't take it with you onto the slope...
...mountains in the West, and issues permits for a percentage of the area's gross receipts or fixed assets. Then he raised $5,000,000 from a Denver real estate developer and the United Bank of Denver, which finances more than half of all ski-area development in Colorado. Typically, Lewis' executives are specialists; the construction manager has several engineering degrees, the mountain manager has an M.A. in agricultural engineering, and the assistant lift superintendent has a degree in recreation. "Ski resorts are becoming refined, structured businesses," says Lewis. "They can't be run by the seat...
...runs cut into the side of a mountain seem to be networks of disfiguring scars in the view of some critics. Increasingly, they charge that ski developments cause soil erosion, leak sewage into rivers and streams and lead to the rise of tacky pizza parlors, motels and gas stations. Colorado conservationists recently played a major part in the successful campaign to ban the 1976 Winter Olympics from the state. The California Supreme Court earlier this year slowed construction of high-rise ski condominiums in the southern Sierras. Bavarian officials have squelched a plan to open for skiing...
...sometimes there is dog dirt in the streets, and there are kids going to school." What the community needs most, he suggests, is something beyond skiing and summer leisure, perhaps an "industry of the mind" or a center for the performing arts. As a start, the University of Colorado has begun to hold workshops on urban design and new towns at Vail...
...looked for likely peaks on Colorado maps, then inspected them on foot or horseback. In 1957, a former uranium prospector led him to Vail Mountain, and he knew that he had found his spot-the proper moisture and altitude (an 11,250-ft. peak rising from an 8,200-ft. valley), a wide variety of slopes for beginners, intermediates and experts. With three friends, he quickly bought 500 acres at the bottom of the mountain...