Judge rejects snowboarders’ suit over ban from Utah’s Alta Ski Resort
Waste of time and money. It’s not important to snowboarding and why even challenge it?
“A business, even a skiing business on Forest Service property, enjoys the right to manage its business pursuant to its preferred business model, even if others disagree,” the judge wrote.
^ I wouldn’t call it a waste of time and money…
I think the reason for them suing was that they thought they had a case as it is on government land, which I think is fair.
Obviously the courts didn’t see it that way, possibly due to bias, but at least that tried.
Plus I think if they did agree it’d open a can of worms due to precedence.
Precedence for what? Alta is the only major ski field in North America that bans snowboarding. If anything, it gives a case for more resorts to try and segregate.
The time and effort could be better used in promoting snowboarding and having a strong snowboard presence in the mountains where it’s allowed. Move the kids in to snowboarding and they won’t have an Alta. It’s the same crap from two years ago where people were complaining about Alta not allowing snowboarding. Let them have it.
Should males should go to Fernwood and demand we work out? I don’t see the point because we can work out and there is places to work out.
Precedence for what? Alta is the only major ski field in North America that bans snowboarding. If anything, it gives a case for more resorts to try and segregate.
But Alta isn’t the only ski field. You will start to have a larger number of cases claiming discrimination along the same lines.
Don’t get me wrong, I board that I’d like for it to go through, but reading the article and following the case, it seems that the courts (or the law system in the area,) don’t want to be fielding case by case of the same thing, which is why I think the verdict was worded in that way.
The time and effort could be better used in promoting snowboarding and having a strong snowboard presence in the mountains where it’s allowed. Move the kids in to snowboarding and they won’t have an Alta. It’s the same crap from two years ago where people were complaining about Alta not allowing snowboarding. Let them have it.
Should males should go to Fernwood and demand we work out? I don’t see the point because we can work out and there is places to work out.
I disagree with you there. I understand what you mean, why bother, those sad f**ks can have their mountain if they want.
But doing this allows the discrimination to happen, which it shouldn’t. It helps those jerks think that they are justified in their thinking after all people are letting them do it.
Also your analogy is way off in context, because in a gym, you don’t see gym gorillas getting perved at.
Like I said I understand the sentiment tho’.
I understand what you are trying to say about it allowing discrimination but I really don’t think it is a societal issue in this circumstance. Denying employment based on the colour of your skin or your gender is worth fighting about, but there are many cases where clubs or groups exist and prosper by being selective and exclusive and it’s not all bad. Fernwood is one example.
It’s not like Alta is the only ski resort in the area. There are 8 resorts within a one hour drive from SLC and only two of those prohibit snowboarders. There are 6 resorts where you CAN go. And guess what….many of the vitriol spewing haters on two planks that would give you grief on the hill will be at Alta rather than Snowbird, because they would rather mingle with their own kind - AWESOME 
that means they’re not cutting across you getting off the lift or hockey stopping right in front of you with no warning!
Can we cut off a piece of Perisher and give it over to skiers only….then the real haters can go over there leaving all the lovers of all methods of getting down the hill to play nice with each other, with consideration and understanding of the way each other rides. I reckon there’s a lot of win!
It’s not like the terrain at Alta is a boarders paradise anyway!
If it was truly sick terrain they were tying up, maybe it’s worth the fight…but I’m with the ‘let them have their mountain’ crew. And if anyone on skis gives you shit at Snowbird, Brighton, Canyons Resort, Park City, Solitude or Sundance it’s easy enough to smile and say ‘Dude, if you hate us so much go to Alta or Deer Valley’. No such option here…we’ve just gotta put up with the grumpy arse elitism 
Precedence for what? Alta is the only major ski field in North America that bans snowboarding. If anything, it gives a case for more resorts to try and segregate.
But Alta isn’t the only ski field. You will start to have a larger number of cases claiming discrimination along the same lines.
Don’t get me wrong, I board that I’d like for it to go through, but reading the article and following the case, it seems that the courts (or the law system in the area,) don’t want to be fielding case by case of the same thing, which is why I think the verdict was worded in that way.The time and effort could be better used in promoting snowboarding and having a strong snowboard presence in the mountains where it’s allowed. Move the kids in to snowboarding and they won’t have an Alta. It’s the same crap from two years ago where people were complaining about Alta not allowing snowboarding. Let them have it.
Should males should go to Fernwood and demand we work out? I don’t see the point because we can work out and there is places to work out.
I disagree with you there. I understand what you mean, why bother, those sad f**ks can have their mountain if they want.
But doing this allows the discrimination to happen, which it shouldn’t. It helps those jerks think that they are justified in their thinking after all people are letting them do it.Also your analogy is way off in context, because in a gym, you don’t see gym gorillas getting perved at.
Like I said I understand the sentiment tho’.
Maybe they should allow snowboarders with onesies! I’m sure we wouldn’t mind rocking the style just to ride there 
Yep F-EM! They can keep that stretch of slope on a angle.
I agree with LMB!!!!!
Let them have it, cause really, who wants to ride with people that think along the lines they do anyway?????
And when Alta suffers a downturn in numbers due to Snowboarding returning to a high point of “cool factor” in the cycle of things, hopefully ALL Snowboarders will remember who did want us around, and who didn’t!!!!!