Word: sierras
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...haven't been able to talk your roommates into joining you out on the tundra and would like company, both the Sierra Club and the Appalachian Mountain Club run cross-country trips of varying degrees of difficulty...
When James Lester found out he was going on an expedition to climb Mount Everest he decided to go for a practice climb in the Sierra Nevadas of California. Lester pooped out at around 11,000 feet, and decided to turn back...
...Mineral King resort would also sacrifice scarce wilderness for the benefit of the affluent. According to the Sierra Club a week for two in Mineral King would cost about $600, while the same trip to a major ski resort in Utah, including air fare from Los Angeles, would cost $580. Even the Forest Service's EIS admits that travel prices, "not counting food and lodging, are prohibitive to use of the proposed development by low income people and create to some extent, economic barriers even to moderate income families...
...delayed construction but its usefulness is limited. Specialists in environmental law say that it is difficult to win a "second generation" NEPA case--a challenge of the federal government's final decision once it has met the "first generation" or procedural NEPA requirements to assess impact. Fortunately the Sierra Club's suit is based on other environmental laws that may allow the club's lawyers to delay the project indefinitely or even kill it entirely...
...backed by legal maneuvering is discouraging. Of course the controversy has had its good moments: for one, the Disney Corporation has learned its lesson, is letting the Forest Service handle the project, and is concentrating on its plans for a resort near Lake Tahoe with the advice of the Sierra Club...