A Snowball's Chance Part 1

The Dirtbag Diaries

Duct Tape Then Beer

Sports, Wilderness

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Mount Bachelor, one of America’s largest and beloved ski resorts, was put up for sale in August of 2024 after two decades of contentious corporate ownership. Sensing a sliver of opportunity, a high school teacher, a housing appraiser and local home builder launched a community campaign to put this ski hill back in the hands of locals. What started as a Facebook thread, snowballed into a legitimate would-be buyer with $100 million in local backing that collided into Wall Street players, the specter of climate change and the looming reality that the joy of skiing is no longer a simple business to run. Support comes from ⁠Oboz⁠ Kuat Racks Washington Discover Pass: Get your Pass at discoverpass.wa.gov Ka’Chava Go to https://kachava.com and use code DIARIES for 15% off your next order. Diaries+ Members-- Their support is powering the Diaries- thank you! You can join today.

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0:37.7	Compower the show.
0:38.8	The link is in the show notes.
0:40.4	Thank you.
0:41.4	Skyler, you're in your 20s.
0:44.0	You're getting after it.
0:45.2	I always love hearing about what you are doing on the weekends.
0:49.4	But I'm like curious because I think younger people go through this.
0:52.0	Like, have you ever experienced that you should have been here 10 years ago or 20 years ago phenomenon.
0:57.5	Like I feel like sometimes older people put that on the younger generation where it's like they sort of pass this lingering feeling that the next generation sort of gets the short end of the stick.
1:08.3	Oh yeah. Absolutely. I have felt that.
1:11.5	I read Edward Abbey at a very impressionable age,
1:15.4	and I think that fed this sense that I really missed a bus to the good old days,
1:20.7	like a long time ago.
1:22.7	And I think sometimes I get the feeling that I missed out
1:24.9	on some sort of golden age of the outdoors.
1:27.6	And it almost feels like we've lost something vital since then, and we might never see it again.
1:34.4	With that all being said, though, I will admit that nostalgia is history with the heart I just rounded off.
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