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'Copter-served skiing - Canadian Rockies style - within a fifteen <br /> minute radius would be quite limited and uneconomical based on experience <br /> at Aspen and Crested Butte during the past decade due to the lack of <br /> long, open slopes with sufficient vertical drop. Furthermore, the best <br /> of the slopes such as the basins on Chair and Ragged Mountains to the <br /> south, and those to the east in the Snowmass Mountain-Hagerman Peak- <br /> Hayden Peak country are "off-limits" due to the wilderness classification <br /> and restrictions on all motorized equipment. Snowmobile use would be <br /> limited due to the avalanche hazards along most of the mine haul roads, <br /> and the conflicts with lift-served and cross country skiing. <br /> The summer recreation potential is also somewhat limited except for <br /> hiking, horseback riding, pack trips and big game hunting in the Fall in <br /> the country north of Coal Creek. Fishing is non-existent unless a few <br /> small reservoirs as proposed for storage to supplement established water <br /> rights are constructed and stocked. <br /> Recreation residences and some year-round dwellings and condominium <br /> units could be constructed adjacent to the base or preparation plant <br /> area, on parts of the Sutey tract, and on the 160 acres tract in Section <br /> 4 if a paved road is constructed to the property. However, the most <br /> desirable area for such facilities would, of course, be immediately west <br /> of Redstone on the leased property in the southwest quarter of Section <br /> 17 above the flood plain of Coal Creek. <br /> -15- <br />