Reveling in the Ruins ; Ski Areas Close, but That Doesn't Keep Powder From Falling

Gazette, The; Colorado Springs, Colo. › February 20, 2009

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GUANELLA PASS - Ski resorts come and go, but skiing lives on forever.

Peter Bronski reached that conclusion in 2006, the first time he pointed his skis down a slope of one of the dozens of out-of- business ski hills that haunt the Rockies.

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Reveling in the Ruins ; Ski Areas Close, but That Doesn't Keep Powder From Falling

The East Coast transplant had climbed with a friend to the top of Geneva Basin, in the mountains southwest of Georgetown. The little ski area closed in 1984. The lift towers had been hauled away, the base lodge had burned to the ground, but the view from the top was still the kind skiers dream of: Long, open runs beckoned with deep, untracked powder, and not another skier in sigh...

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