10.19.2005

Sad times at Sunlight Mountain

If you have a spare $50 mill around in loose change then you can buy your own Colorado Ski Resort. As the first snow starts to fall on Sunlight so do the tears of many locals. Sunlight was recently put on the market. With so few of the resorts in Colorado owned by small business and not the conglomerates we can only hope that Sunlight goes to a nice community orientated owner. I think that only leaves Loveland ski resort as one of the few independently owned. Recently it was announced that Evergreen, Colorado will be home to the newest terraine park. A small affair is being built on Echo Mountain where a resort stood in the 1970's. According to General Manager Doug Donovan. "This is not your mamma's ski resort- no stuffy elite attitude, no fancy log cabins or fake Swiss villages, just park." So maybe as a new park is built and an old one is sold, Sunlight will get a little better where it needs some improvement and will stay true to the Colorado family like it has for many years.