There is a simple solution that the parks could make--stop providing rescues. While it's nice to know that a helicopter may have our backs if we get hurt, what happened to good old take responsibility for yourself? If things go terribly wrong, I guess your f...ed. Welcome to the risks of the sports we love. This may sound callused, but it's one true way of deflating a major thread in their argument. The irony is that as a society we don't question the need to provide rescues for victims in car crashes or to search for lost hikers, hunters, etc., yet we don't restrict access to our highways nor threaten to close down access to those other user groups. To this I say let's gather as often as possible next winter, in as big of groups as possible, ski right up to the edge of the Crystal Ski area, and rip it down to 410! See what they do then.
