{"id":2443484,"date":"2019-04-26T17:28:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T23:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/this-land-is-our-land-not-aspen-skiing-co-s\/"},"modified":"2019-04-27T10:18:20","modified_gmt":"2019-04-27T16:18:20","slug":"this-land-is-our-land-not-aspen-skiing-co-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/this-land-is-our-land-not-aspen-skiing-co-s\/","title":{"rendered":"This land is our land, not Aspen Skiing Co.\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">This land is our land, not Skico\u2019s<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Dear White River National Forest Supervisor Scott Fitzwilliams,<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">With the impending takeover of Gwyn\u2019s at Snowmass by our local monopoly Aspen Skiing Co., may I please ask two questions?<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">1. Acknowledging the fact that ski resorts in California, Switzerland, France and Germany have multiple privately owned ski schools (which previously existed at Aspen Highlands and Snowmass before Lester Crown), why haven\u2019t you approved any additional new free enterprise competition at the Skico and Vail Resorts mountains?<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">2. If the land leased by Vail and Skico is owned by the people, can\u2019t we the people change the leases?<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Lee Mulcahy<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Aspen<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/this-land-is-our-land-not-aspen-skiing-co-s\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This land is our land, not Skico\u2019s Dear White River National Forest Supervisor Scott Fitzwilliams, With the impending takeover of Gwyn\u2019s at Snowmass by our local monopoly Aspen Skiing Co., may I please ask two questions? 1. Acknowledging the fact that ski resorts in California, Switzerland, France and Germany have multiple privately owned ski schools [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2443484","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 10:02:48","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2443484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2443484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2443484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2443484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}