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Skiers, Snowboarders, and the Fight Over Alta

KUER 90.1 | By Doug Fabrizio
Published August 14, 2014 at 11:00 AM MDT
Photo credit MROBENALT via CC/Flickr, http://bit.ly/1uQonyr
Snowboards are conspicuously absent from ski racks at Alta Ski Area.

Thursday, we’re talking about the fight to force Alta Ski Area to open its slopes to snowboarders. Once banned at ski resorts across the country, snowboarding is now outlawed at just three, two of them in Utah. A suit filed earlier this year against Alta claims the resort discriminates against snowboarders. As both sides wait for a U.S. District Court judge to rule, we’ll explore the differences between skiing and snowboarding, and we want to hear from you. Is there a good reason to restrict a resort to skiers only?

GUESTS

  • Derek Taylor is a freelance adventure sports writer and a former editor of Powder magazine.
  • Josh Scheuerman is an SLC-based artist and the former snowboard ambassador for Ski Utah.
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Doug Fabrizio
Doug Fabrizio has been reporting for KUER News since 1987, and became News Director in 1993. In 2001, he became host and executive producer of KUER's RadioWest, a one hour conversation/call-in show on KUER 90.1 in Salt Lake City. He has gained a reputation for his thoughtful style. He has interviewed everyone from Isabel Allende to the Dalai Lama, and from Madeleine Albright to Desmond Tutu. His interview skills landed him a spot as a guest host of the national NPR program, "Talk of the Nation." He has won numerous awards for his reporting and for his work with RadioWest and KUED's Utah NOW from such organizations as the Society of Professional Journalists, the Utah Broadcasters Association, the Public Radio News Directors Association and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
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