Over the course of the past month or so we've devoted substantial electronic ink here at Weber County Forum to the frenzied tree and brush clearing activity recently occurring on Chris Peterson's Malan's Basin/Strongs' Canyon property. Thanks to the efforts of one alert WCF reader, we'll revive the discussion again. We received some interesting new information late yesterday evening, possibly related to the Malan's/Strong's clearcutting story. Here's the new info, courtesy of the Telemark Talk Forum Bulletin Board:
• Utards: Snowbasin permit expansion. Comment by Jan 5.More savvy electronic chatter on this latest development is also available, via The Teton Gravity Research BB, under the same title header:
• Utards: Snowbasin permit expansion. Comment by Jan 5.While it's probably a mite early to conclude that the two stories are actually connected, references to routes through Taylors, Beus and Burch Canyons would suggest, at this stage of the game at least, that the near-simultaneous Snow Basin permit application and the Peterson clearcutting may be more than slightly coincidental.
Taken in conjunction, these stories would also add further weight to Dan Schroeder's theory, that Peterson's clearcutting activity may be related to an effort to develop skiable Snow Basin to Ogden descent routes, of course.
We therefore invite our gentle readers to consider this new information, and to speculate on the true meaning of all this.
"Ogdenerds - ball's in your court."
Update 1/1/09 6:45 a.m. MT: For more useful information on this topic, be sure to check out Kristen Moulton's Wednesday evening Salt Lake Tribune writeup:
• Snowbasin asks to take skiers into public backcountrySuddenly, this conjunction of stories seems to be growing real legs. Imagine that.
