| Ouch, that really sucks. I will likely be at that meeting this Saturday to hear what they have to say. Might be a bit of lynch mob. Rightly so. Any one following the boards this Summer knows how adamantly pissed off I was about the cut. Disgust would be putting it mildly and I still hope these guys get the book thrown at them. But limiting access from Jay Peak is only going to make a bad situation worse. Now there is a big fat bullseye on the "Jailbird Chute" as it has become known as. They would have been better off letting this wash under the bridge quietly. They just gave Big Jay skiers (and people who were not Big Jay skiers but now are going to seek it out due to notoriety) a big fat reason to be defiant. Hell, I am considering skinning up this winter and being defiant once enough snow settles in (as apparently according the TTips thread, the original plan was say it could be skied once the base level is high enough). This is just making a bad situation worse.
Hey, whatever.... even deeper powder and even more untracked lines for those of us willing to skin.
The frustrating thing here is there was no dialog or conversation or consensus. Just a big ole fat this is the way it is. Who do they think they are punishing? Someone in that TTips thread said it very well that they are not punishing the "backcountry skiing" community. Any one in the "backcountry skiing" community still has access via earned turns. What is done is done and people are going to ski that chute and there really isn't much they can do about it. One season of limiting access isn't going to help much when it gets trashed the season after this. Education and partnership would be a much better approach than what they decided to do, IMHO. |