For my sixth PLN I decided to read an article titled " Snowboarders Finally get Welcome at Taos Ski Resort" by Jason Belvis. This article mainly told about how Tao's, a fifty-three year old resort just ended their probation preventing snowboarders from snowboarding on their resort. Thousands of snowboarders came to celebrate the dismiss of the prevention that is now only valid in Utah's Deer Valley as well as in Vermont's Mad River Glen. The Blake family who owns the resort has owned it since 1995 when Ernie Blake invited skiers to visit the resort. Now, three generations later the resort has opened their mountain to snowboarders in hopes to boost visits to their resort.
What Matters: I think what matters from this article is the simple fact that this is sort of prejudice. In my opinion I think that it is wrong for a ski resort to deny certain people just because they ski down the mountain differently. I think that it is just plain wrong for people to deny people admission to a place just because of a bad experience they've had or heard about snowboarders.
How This Affects Me: This affects me as well as the rest of the snowboarding and skiing population. I myself ski and even I, a skier thinks this is wrong and not right. It is good that the ski resort finally decided to open their doors to the snowboarding population but why so long? I mean thirty years? To me, that is ridiculous and it should have been opened long ago.
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