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Montana Snowbowl is located 12 miles northwest of Missoula. Deep, powdery bowls and 2,600 feet of continuous vertical drop make Snowbowl an extremist's dream. There's plenty of skiing for other skill levels, too. Fly Delta, Horizon Air, United and Northwest to Missoula. Car rentals are available at airport. From I-90, Reserve St. Exit (Exit 101), north on Grant Creek Road, then left onto Snowbowl Road. Open daily 9:30am - 4:00pm (closed Tuesdays early and late season).
www.montanasnowbowl.com
New Year’s Resolutions: Why is it hard to stay motivated and what can we do to stick to our goals once the initial motivation has dissipated?
iPods, palm pilots, cell phones, text messages, emails…personal stationary, letters, landlines? Remember back in high school when we wanted to talk on the phone for hours or we wanted to write (yes, with a pen)our friends, relatives or weekly crush letters with colors, stickers, pictures, perfume, dried flower petals, etc.? And mixed tapes…or even mixed CDs. Creative expression, right? Where did that come from and where has it gone?
The Wilderness Act of 1964 defines wilderness areas as places “where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man.” If you take that definition for what it is, as I do, you will likely conclude that mining is prohibited in designated wilderness areas. Imagine my bewilderment, then, at the proposal for Rock Creek Mine, which calls for digging and blasting under the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness of northwest Montana. A mine in a federally designated wilderness area? But silly me—the mine isn’t in the wilderness, it’s under it. And thanks to the 1872 mining law, that’s permitted. Here I thought the ground I was hiking on, all of it, all the way down to the earth’s core, was protected.
www.SaveOurCabinets.org
