WMC Update 2012

We need one of you computer wiz dudes to help with a map like an ealier post....please..

We have sent our hand-marked map to a professional map guy. We WMC Executive are lame at the tech stuff, we are from a bit older generation that has not learned...

the ideas mostly came from newtrout's comments that were pasted here from another forum. It made a lot of sense.

At least for the NF Teanaway, I consider the wilderness area out of play, and mostly a distraction from what really needs to happen. I can only think of maybe 2 locations where I would ever attempt to enter the wilderness in the winter - Navaho Pass and Ingalls Pass - and really there's no way to get close to either without a snowmobile. Even in the spring I ski mostly on the non-wilderness side. I think skiers would benefit more by focussing on the development of new snowparks that snowmobilers would get behind, along with a couple adjacent non-motor areas that snowmobilers can live with. Damn, I'm starting to feel like a sellout.

md202...what's your suggestion for such a location for snoparks and adjacent non-motorized area?

the ideas mostly came from newtrout's comments that were pasted here from another forum. It made a lot of sense.

At least for the NF Teanaway, I consider the wilderness area out of play, and mostly a distraction from what really needs to happen. I can only think of maybe 2 locations where I would ever attempt to enter the wilderness in the winter - Navaho Pass and Ingalls Pass - and really there's no way to get close to either without a snowmobile. Even in the spring I ski mostly on the non-wilderness side. I think skiers would benefit more by focussing on the development of new snowparks that snowmobilers would get behind, along with a couple adjacent non-motor areas that snowmobilers can live with. Damn, I'm starting to feel like a sellout.

You are not a sellout, neither is TobyT who wants hybrid-use to Longs Pass. Neither are the folks here questioning the size of the proposal. Other ideas are in play. Check out the possible modification for collaboration with snowmobile folks that serves yours and TobyT uses.

Damn, I'm starting to feel like a sellout.

next thing you know..you'll be on a sled poaching lines in the non-motorized wilderness....it's all downhill from here....nothing like the adrenaline dropping off a 40' cliff after just climbing up a death shute full of avy debris....

We need one of you computer wiz dudes to help with a map like an ealier post....please..

Not a 'wiz' in any sense of the word, but I will try and produce a google map of the 'new area' to give people something to discuss when I get home tonight. You posted a google map showing the wilderness areas somewhere above. What was the source of that map? I would like to show the wilderness, but drawing it in by hand will take time .....

I am very heartened by the useful discussion here and over at snowest!

Micah

WMC has called our contact and is waiting for a possible response in order to set up a collaborative meeting.

WMC is out of here for mountain biking, then WMC will be elsewhere for 5 days so there may be few or no posts for a while.

Thank you.