uphillklimber
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A couple days ago, a friend and I took a ride up the chondi at the River. We wanted to scope out the old Spruce cliffs trail, off Risky business and basically check out the new public land off the backside that groups in Bethel are developing for recreational activities.
We found much of the woods off Risky to be a party spot where folks leave their beer cans, as well as a make shift tent.
Some of the cans were quite old
Sunday river doesn't exactly lead the charge for leaving things natural
We also saw styrofoam kicking about here and there, used in the construction of the new Spruce lift:
On the way up, we did find the pass tree, a local family who decorates the tree with their expired ski passes
The old haul rope is left on the ground. I'm thinking there has to be some salvage value in this??? Have one of the kids working there take an ATV up there, hook on to sections of this and drag it down and toss it into the metal dumpster.
We did locate the old Spruce cliffs trail, very clearly a trail, but getting overgrown.
Yes, the trail drops off much like it appears to drop off in the second picture above. I can see why they abandoned this trail, too many rescues.
We also saw a cable hook up for when the winch cat does vortex
This picture does not do justice to the topography here, but Risky Business needs at least 6 feet of snow to fill int he gullies here.
I'm getting a bit off topic here. The amount of garbage on the slopes is disconcerting to me. Construction site debris strewn about, beer cans and other garbage.... then if you get to the trees of the White Cap lift, going up Tempest, you don't have a single bra tree making a minor scandal we all laugh at, you have a bunch of such trees, and many have mardi gras beads stuck in their branches, and let's not forget the latest craze, CD's on strings. Is anyone else bothered by such stuff? I liked to laugh at the bra tree every resort seemed to have one of, somewhere. I just think it is getting out of hand of late.
We found much of the woods off Risky to be a party spot where folks leave their beer cans, as well as a make shift tent.

Some of the cans were quite old

Sunday river doesn't exactly lead the charge for leaving things natural

We also saw styrofoam kicking about here and there, used in the construction of the new Spruce lift:


On the way up, we did find the pass tree, a local family who decorates the tree with their expired ski passes

The old haul rope is left on the ground. I'm thinking there has to be some salvage value in this??? Have one of the kids working there take an ATV up there, hook on to sections of this and drag it down and toss it into the metal dumpster.

We did locate the old Spruce cliffs trail, very clearly a trail, but getting overgrown.


Yes, the trail drops off much like it appears to drop off in the second picture above. I can see why they abandoned this trail, too many rescues.
We also saw a cable hook up for when the winch cat does vortex

This picture does not do justice to the topography here, but Risky Business needs at least 6 feet of snow to fill int he gullies here.

I'm getting a bit off topic here. The amount of garbage on the slopes is disconcerting to me. Construction site debris strewn about, beer cans and other garbage.... then if you get to the trees of the White Cap lift, going up Tempest, you don't have a single bra tree making a minor scandal we all laugh at, you have a bunch of such trees, and many have mardi gras beads stuck in their branches, and let's not forget the latest craze, CD's on strings. Is anyone else bothered by such stuff? I liked to laugh at the bra tree every resort seemed to have one of, somewhere. I just think it is getting out of hand of late.