And I gotta give credit to Stowe Mountain Resort for using technology to help save Nature. The number of trees that are sacrificed in order for ski resorts to send out ever fancier and glossier media kits seems like it must be very high, so Stowe has opted to put their information on-line. You can still get a hard copy, but not every journalist needs every media kit from every resort in North America. So yeah, there are a bunch of good things about technology. But it is vitally important to get away from it every once in a while.
Nature is the antidote to today's cyberworld.
When I start enjoying Nature by watching streaming video of trees and mountains, just shoot me. One of those multitudinous e-mails the other day was a story about a poll on women and sports. While 63 percent of women exercise said they expect to be more physically fit before the turn of the century, a mere 4.3 percent said they would strive to learn a new sport. It was the same number that said they were determined to motivate their friends and family to get their bodies in motion. My philosophy is to take up a new sport every decade.