They use one instead of two, they have to only worry about two edges instead of four, they like half pipes instead of tobacco pipes, they shred instead of schuss, and while these others get the run, for a small fortune, of a piece of prime Utah alpine winter wonder land, they are excluded and are suing.
They demand that the U.S. forest service force Alta ski resort to allow them to take their two-edge, single board contraptions with their goofy footed or regular footed stances and shred the gnar right alongside the straight liners.
What's next? It was bad enough when they replaced those long Alf Engen wood planks and cable bindings with those short metal skis. This could open up the flood gates. Soon Tobogganers, snow-kayakers, tubbers, and unwashed bare-footed nudist will demand equal access to the slopes. Can't there be at least one place on earth were some semblance of Alf is kept sacred?
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/15/idUSnMKW0Dk4Sa+1d2+MKW20140115
Comment 1: Loren M. Lambert: Actually it falls under the Establishment Clause and Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment, "“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” Because when Snowboarding is done right, in the right setting it is not just a religion, it is more than a religion, and to prohibit it from expressing itself at the pinnacle of sublimity on Catherine's Ridge and Albion Basin is preventing it from the most exquisite experience known to man.
Loren M. Lambert © January 15, 2013
They demand that the U.S. forest service force Alta ski resort to allow them to take their two-edge, single board contraptions with their goofy footed or regular footed stances and shred the gnar right alongside the straight liners.
What's next? It was bad enough when they replaced those long Alf Engen wood planks and cable bindings with those short metal skis. This could open up the flood gates. Soon Tobogganers, snow-kayakers, tubbers, and unwashed bare-footed nudist will demand equal access to the slopes. Can't there be at least one place on earth were some semblance of Alf is kept sacred?
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/15/idUSnMKW0Dk4Sa+1d2+MKW20140115
Comment 1: Loren M. Lambert: Actually it falls under the Establishment Clause and Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment, "“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” Because when Snowboarding is done right, in the right setting it is not just a religion, it is more than a religion, and to prohibit it from expressing itself at the pinnacle of sublimity on Catherine's Ridge and Albion Basin is preventing it from the most exquisite experience known to man.
Loren M. Lambert © January 15, 2013
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