March 28, 2012

SandBoxBlogs: Snowmass Sun "Skico looks to expand winter activities for guest and locals"

John Gardner:
"There are winter sports aplenty at Snowmass. But where does one go for a good day of winter tubing?

That is the question that Snowmass Club general manager Don Schuster is trying to answer.

“We've been looking for locations to bring back a tubbing hill to Snowmass,” Schuster said. “We are in the process of looking at locations that might work.”

For those of you who may have noticed that the Snowmass Club is making snow at the golf course, it's not because the warm weather is melting away the snow at the course. It's because one of the best prospective locations for a tubbing hill just happens to be the golf course driving range, according to Schuster. However, no location has been confirmed yet. So far they just made some snow and allowed some club members to try out the hill the weekend of March 10-11, Schuster said.

“We thought it would be a fun event to see how it worked,” he said. And, he said, it worked pretty well. But the location is off limits and isn't open to the public despite the club being the site of the Nordic Sports Center...."  (Read more?  Click title)

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