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<br />Tablt: 2.6 Conlin~d <br /> <br />Chapt~r 2 - TM AlkrlUUives <br />':::. <br />\.J <br /> <br />Discipline Impacts Potential Mitigation I <br /> Altern.,;.,e A Altern.,;.,e B A1tern.,;.,e C <br />SCENIC The greatest visible impact for any Under Alternative B, me most visible Under Altern.,;.,e C. the Use helicop.... to place ski lift components, <br />RESOURCES developments on changes to me view from the Sundeck: Steeplechase and Highlands Bowl construction equipment, and malerials where mere is <br /> Aspen I1ighlands are from the reslBurant would be the Steeplechase lifts and the Highlands Bowl no access by road. <br /> Sundeck reslaurant at Aspen and Highland Bowl lifts and caJwalks. catwalk would have the same visual <br /> Mountain and the Maroon Creek. impact as seen from the Sundeck Aame spray lift lowers and use dark: colors to meet <br /> Bridge on SH82. The 60-foot,wide lift line clearings rcstaurant at Aspen Mountain, as FSM 2380 policy for color and reflectivily for lift <br /> would introduce new vertically linear under Alternative B. components (4.5 on lhc Munsell neutral value color <br /> Completion of approved elemenlS thal cross existing mixed scale) and obtain furesl Service approval for color to <br /> improvements would not conifer and aspen stands, and the lift In place of the Steeplechase be used. <br /> significantly change the visual towers and terminals would also be CBlWaIk. the Lower Temerity <br /> quality from these two viewpoints visible. The 12-foot-wide catwalks maintenance road would be seen Vrsry width of liflIines from 60-100 fed leaving!rees <br /> since they would replace existing would cut diagonally across the side of where i1 would cross treed slands of various heights along corridor edge and selectively <br /> elements. 'Several areas of existing the Aspen Highlands and trav",,", between the base of the thin small slands of trees adjaceot to liflIines to <br /> non-compliance with the Forest several saands of mixed conifer, Steeplechase UIt and the Castle produce irregular corridor edges, <br /> Plan VQOs need to be addressed lodgepole pine. and aspen and would Creek Road. <br /> under the ~SC's summer operation likely be the most visually apparent Where possible, install utility lines beneath the surface <br /> and vegetarion management plans. elemcnls from the Sundeck viewpoint The IIighland and Ridge surface along catWaIks,lroad corridon:. <br /> lifts and the Temerily Catwalk <br /> The Ridge maintenance road. the would be additional features visible Minimize soil disturbance due to conslrUetion activity <br /> reconstructed Merry-Go-Round from this viewpoinL especially along caJwalks, where retaining walls built <br /> restaurant, the new PHQ, and the from natural matcriaIs will be used on steep grades to <br /> ex.plosives storage facility would not None of lhese features would minimize the width of fUlslopes and the impact on <br /> likely be visible from the Sundeck substantially impact existing downslope lrccs thaI pel as a visual barrier. <br /> restaurant viewpoinL vegetation and none would be <br /> highly visible since they appear as Revegctate cut and fill slopes with suitable naLive <br /> The only new feature that would be background fea\ures. species immediately after consbuction is complelc. <br /> visible from Ihe Highway 82 viewpoint <br /> would be the 60-fool,wide Thunderbowl The Ridge maintenance road. Clearings will simulate n8lUraJ vegetation including <br /> lifiline. which would be seen as 8 new Merry-Go-Round restaurant, new uneven edges and vegetation islands. <br /> linear feature that CUls lhrough some Loge Peak resUUlrant and the <br /> mixed conifer and aspen stands. explosives storage facility would Building designs will incorporate low-impact <br /> not be prominent features from the materials and coJon,low-level structures, efficient <br /> The Maroon Bowl Lift and Loge Bowl Sundeck restaurant viewpoint energy use, and harmonize with the surrounding <br /> CBlWaIk would nol be readily visible landscape. <br /> from any viewpoint but might be seen as While the alignment of the new <br /> . background fealuTe from the top of Thunderbowl Lift under Allemative <br /> Buttermilk or Elk: Camp on Snowmass. C would be sligh~y to the west of <br /> the Alternative B alignmen~ the <br /> visual impacts of these two <br /> alignments as seen from the SH82 <br /> viewpoint would be very similar. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />._'_:l <br />c..., <br />....:> <br /> <br />Comparison of Allt:rnaJives <br /> <br />2-31 <br />