Malan's Basin Resort "Feasibility" Reprised

As our gentle readers will recall, we first published Don Wilson's Malan's Basin Feasibility Opinion Letter , embedded within within one of our main articles on September 20, 2006. The Standard-Examiner also published an abbreviated version on September 23, 2006. This letter, which had been originally prepared and submitted to the Emerald City council on July 15 2006, represents, in our view, the most significant document publicly released to date, regarding the feasibility of establishing a ski-industry type resort in Malan's Basin. This document has been cited repeatedly by various members of the community since its public dissemination, and our above-linked archived article remains one of the most frequently visited and emailed pages on Weber County Forum.

The unique combination of Mr. Wilson's professional engineering and ski area management backgrounds has made Mr. Wilson's letter impossible to ignore, and it certainly has not suffered that fate -- except by Mind-numbed Emerald City Gondolists, who have been deafeningly silent to date on the issues raised by Mr. Wilson, and who seem to wish the letter would just "go away."

The continuing silence is broken at least slightly by today's Kristen Moulton article however, which reprises the Wilson letter issues, and provides a few meager responses, from none other than the usually-elusive Chris Peterson himself.

We invite our gentle readers to read Kristen's article, and to compare Mr. Peterson's tangential responses with the robust and precise information provided in Mr. Wilson's letter.

As an added bonus, we also link here the full text of the responsive November 17, 2006 Chris Peterson email, to which Ms. Moulton refers in her article. We'll add that we have received this foregoing text from several different sources over the past week, under circumstances which lead us to believe this particular material is entirely accurate and authentic.

We'll resist the temptation to offer our own additional snarky editorial comments, except to suggest that Mr. Peterson's foregoing email text must stand on its own merit (or lack thereof,) and that Mr. Peterson may have inadvertantly provided us considerable insight into one wanna-be developer's intellectual capacity and professional competence.

We propose that our readers use today's thread to work out the cobwebs after a long weekend. What did Chris Peterson get right, we ask, (if anything?) And what did he get dead-wrong? And what objections did Mr. Peterson ignore entirely?

Who will be the first to comment?