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Vail ski resort to chop down thousands of pines threatened by beetles
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Up to 7,000 lodgepole pines will be cut down at the Vail Mountain ski resort to reduce the risk that a tree killed by beetles could damage a ski gondola by falling or catching fire.
The work is expected to be done over the next month. The area will remain open to skiers after the logging work. A bark beetle infestation has already killed about 1.5 million acres of lodgepole pines in Colorado. The US Forest Service predicts that beetles will kill most of the state's lodgepoles within 5 years.
...Sourcehttp://cbs4denver.com/local/vail.resort.beetles.2.828863.html
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We were in Vail last year and the dead trees are a real turn off - they're even marked (and explained) on the piste map. The combination of ugly sprawling town, rounded hills and dead trees make it one of the most unattractive resorts I've ever been to, which is a real shame because the back bowls and blue sky basin are really fantastic skiing.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Plake wrote:
We were in Vail last year and the dead trees are a real turn off - they're even marked (and explained) on the piste map. The combination of ugly sprawling town, rounded hills and dead trees make it one of the most unattractive resorts I've ever been to, which is a real shame because the back bowls and blue sky basin are really fantastic skiing.
Isn't it funny how people's opinion can vary so much? I respect your opinion, but for us, we skiied there for a day in January from Breckenridge and thought that the alpine style of the town was charming and how the layout helped create apres-ski by making people walk by bars (or more to the point, not walk by, but go in and drink) instead of having to go looking for them like Breck. But we didn't think that much of the bowls and basin were that good because there are so many blue runs to do to go round and do it again, and a very long easy journey to get back to the village.
Oh, and we didn't notice any dead trees. That's not to say there not there, it's just we didn't notice them, so they didn't spoil anything, but the place did seem a lot less densely wooded then other nearby resorts.
All in all though, we wouldn't head there especialy again.
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