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Nov 15, 2007, 11:08 AM
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  Arapahoe Basin Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: CT
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| Methinks some people are lacking in a sense of humor.... 
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Nov 15, 2007, 11:38 AM
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| Arapahoe Basin Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: CT
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 I know I would have LMAO if I had seen that while riding the cog! 
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Nov 15, 2007, 4:26 PM
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  In prior times Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Out in the MA 'burbs near 495.
Posts: 1,889
 | It's a long and complicated story. Parents taking their kids up the cog don't like the moonscape, as do some folk. Others laugh it off, and the stories go that the engineers would throw coal back at the hikers. The hikers are generally mooning the cog because it's a nasty, disgusting polluter belching enormous black clouds of coal smoke into the ski. It has since also become AT through-hiker tradition. The cog has been building a new engine that's, I believe, biodiesel-fueled, so hopefully once that's in service they can copy it and get all the coal engines off the tracks. But it's still going to take time and until then, there will be sideways-smiling protesters.
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Nov 15, 2007, 4:32 PM
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  Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Barrington, New Hampshire
Posts: 466
| I can't believe that's a Federal offense! Man talk about uptight, like that should be a Federal offense! Just because it on National Forest Land? What's next? I think it's pretty funny, that's a tradition on Peaks Island in Maine. When the Ferry boat leaves the dock, there's always a bunch of kids standing on the pylons near the dock, saluting the Ferry as it leaves.
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