Downhill Slide: Why the Corporate Ski Industry is Bad for Skiing, Ski Towns, and the Environment

Downhill Slide: Why the Corporate Ski Industry is Bad for Skiing, Ski Towns, and the Environment
by Hal Clifford

Downhill Slide: Why the Corporate Ski Industry is Bad for Skiing, Ski Towns, and the Environment
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Author: Hal Clifford
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2003-10-01
ISBN: 1578051029
Number of pages: 300
Publisher: Sierra Club Books

Book Reviews of Downhill Slide: Why the Corporate Ski Industry is Bad for Skiing, Ski Towns, and the Environment

Book Review: Tells it like it is
Summary: 4 Stars

Although this book can be read like a big negative, it is very insightful. There are likely to be some positive affects of development which the author does not spend time describing and definitely comes across as having an agenda, but for the curious it is a great read. I was unable to put the book down until I was finished!

Summary of Downhill Slide: Why the Corporate Ski Industry is Bad for Skiing, Ski Towns, and the Environment

In this impassioned expose, lifelong skier Hal Clifford reveals how publicly traded corporations gained control of America's most popular winter sport during the 1990s, and how their greed is gutting ski towns, the natural environment, and skiing itself.
Chronicling the collision between Wall Street's demand for unceasing revenue growth and the fragile natural and social environments of small mountain communities, Clifford shows how the modern ski industry promotes its product as environmentally friendly, while at the same time creating urban-style problems for mountain villages. He suggests an alternative to this bleak picture in the return-to-the-roots movement that is now beginning to find its voice in many American ski towns, and he relates stories of creative business people who are shifting control of the ski business back to the communities that host it.
Hard-hitting and carefully researched, Downhill Slide is indispensable reading for anyone who lives in, visits, or cares about what is happening to America's alpine communities.

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