I have attended many for those meeting over the past several years here in Soldotna. It is hard to believe, but the forest service guys said there was a much larger turn out of sled heads here than in Anchorage!!! As a matter of fact, here, it was only sledders that attended the meetings. We fought long and hard to keep Lost Lake as we know it. We fought to keep access to Nellie Juan as they WERE going to lock us out of there completely. We were successful in getting them to give us the narrow corridor that gives us access to the back country there. They did something similar to that in the 20 mile area as well. SO PLEASE, ANYONE READING THIS, PLEASE RESPECT THE CORRIDORS AND WHAT TIL YOU GET BACK TO THE PLAYGROUNDS TO PLAY!!! The skiers will only see or hear us for about an hour in the am on the way in, and an hour on the way out and they will still have powder for themselves close to the roads. They were considering seriously shutting down access to grandview and trail glacier from the moose pass end as well. This was also avioded for now as well.
As for the even, odd year thing for Ressurrection, I for one consider this a major win for Sledders and a LOSS for the skiers. Up til now the skiers of course could use the area all year, but we only had from the time of adequate snow cover which was usaully mid December, til Feb15. No riding time at all in the spring when the snow is best and it is warmer and more daylight. I would rather ride every other spring, than no spring riding at all! I hope others of you agree and see where I am coming from on this. We all need to attend these meetings when they happen. And dont show up with a chip on your shoulder or those forest service guys will tune you out. Come up with good ideas that are useful and reasonable, and those guys are all ears. Sorry guys, didn't mean to get on a soap box here and write a novel, just trying to shed a little light on how this works and share my thoughts on our wins!:beer;
