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Ski with me, Robert Redford

A few years back, I was lucky enough to stay at Sun Dance, which I really believed had Robert Redford's touch on everything.

It just seemed like we were in some movie set where everything was at once rustic yet perfect in the same breath. I was with one my exes (this one I have been thinking about a lot lately as this time last year his girlfriend hacked into his computer and wrote to me, using his email and acting like it was him, telling me that we can't ever be in touch ever again.)

Anyway, I was with this ex, and he knew Robert Redford from some Sundance TV stuff he had worked on.  So we got styled.  Rode horses, made soap, and ate like Kings and Queens.  It was there in that gorgeous cabin the sweetly straddled a creek that I discovered Natural Home & Garden, one of my favorite magazines.

As lovely as this all sounds, it was on this trip that I realized the ex was kind of a "woe-is-me" kind of person.  He found things to complain about... there!  And although the trip was amazing, it was maybe when things started to go downhill.  Ew, bad pun.

This year I am excited to get to know the slopes that are literally 15 minutes from my front door, Bridger Bowl.  I might even try to snowboard, as I am really into trying new things lately (you know when you go through stages for trying new things? I am in one so I need to optimize it.)

Off to get my season ski pass and my favorite hangover helper (holiday party last night where I had too much wine and not enough food!) : greasy egg sandwhich, coming up... Jen

Posted by: jboulden on 12/21/2006
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Meg  on December 21, 2006 at 08:16 AM 1
I used to work in Whistler. Soooo much garbage is produced from those resorts. However, it wasn't so much the resorts fault, as tourists can't seem to read and often would throw recyclables away in the garbage... but the waste was incredible, and I don 't want to even talk about the smell...
Gina  on December 21, 2006 at 09:46 AM 2
A geographic nit from today's tip: Wyoming isn't in the Midwest. It belongs in the West category.
Corrie  on December 21, 2006 at 10:08 AM 3
I sorta have an issue with affluent people coming in and trying to make our western town just "perfect" looking on the top with fake wagon wheels and all crap without giving to the community. They just pay for the views while they live here two weeks a year and drive taxes up for the middle class...BUT that being said, Big Mountain ski resort in Whitefish, MT offers a FREE comminuty snow bus that runs many, many times a day so one can "carpool" with a bunch of other slope bound! Hopefully, the funding will come through to covert it to a bio fuel in the near future. I'm not sure that would influence anyone to come ski here but it's the one thing they have done for years that always made an eco gal like me happy.
shira Weber  on December 21, 2006 at 11:30 AM 4
I'm sure that Sundance is a wonderful eco resort, BUT have you ever taken a look at the Sundance catalog. You will find leather jackets, leather books, rabbit-fur lined leather boots, leather sofas, leather chairs, leather bags, leather belts. I wonder how many cows had to die in order that the Sundance catolog could put enough items on it's pages? Sundance maybe be "ECO" friendly, but they certainly are not CRUELTY-FREE. I always thought the two should go hand in hand.
JS  on December 21, 2006 at 12:43 PM 5
Yeah, Shira...I had the exact same thought. I guess I divide the issue a little differently. Knowing a few local native americans and other "locals", there's animal products and then there's Sundance Animal products. Cows die every day, it's more of a how and why to me. To meet basic needs makes sense...but for the 50th pair of rabbit fur boots, well I agree with you. Not everybody can afford the recycled soda bottle Patagonia jacket or synthetic cotton pillow (assuming that it's even manufactured sustainably).
joe mama  on December 21, 2006 at 12:47 PM 6
Ski resorts are a bad idea on the whole because they need to clear-cut many acres of trees in order to create ski slopes and majestic mountain-top lodges. They use up too many natural resources to give rich people a place to play.
Nitin Borwankar  on December 21, 2006 at 04:17 PM 7
today's tip said .... "check our list for the best, tad-bit-nipply, green resort destinations." "tad-bit-nipply" ??? dont you mean "nippy" without the 'l' ? Or does cold weather lead to wardrobe malfunctions ? ;-) -- Nitin Borwankar Find, Learn, Act .... Greener http://greener.com
JS  on December 22, 2006 at 07:22 AM 8
Former Man, you must have missed the recycled feminine products discussion. I was "uughhhewwwww"-ing all the way to the gym after that one, and had bury a few more beers afterwards just to "unremember" that one. Ski resorts may kinda be a bad idea, but like anything, if we're gonna make it a few more centuries, I think the answer's making the ski resort green, not saying "no more skiing!"
the other JB  on December 22, 2006 at 12:15 PM 9
JS - Just think of how grossed out I was, as a WOMAN, after the "recycled feminine products" discussion. It's a gross enough monthly gift WITHOUT re-using everything. The thought of it made ME immediately drink a few beers plus some vino to wash it down. Be happy you're not a woman. And be extra nice to the ones around you. We deserve it!
JS  on December 23, 2006 at 11:17 AM 10
OJB, good to know I wasn't just "being the typical guy" on that one!!! Yep, hopefully the new Girlfriend's very, very, very happy this Christmas. Now if only I could figure out what do about having to go her undergrad formal dance thing. I haven't gone to an undergrad date, crush or sorority party in 10 years!! Either way, I need to brush up on my beer shotgunning skills.
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