The Crested Butte News Serving the Gunnison Valley since 1999
Reality.
A) Teenage boys are different than teenage girls.
B) A 1963 Chevrolet Corvette Sting Ray is cooler than a 1998 Ford Explorer.
C) Colorado ski resorts and their surrounding towns are getting the crap kicked out of them this year…but Crested Butte is in better shape than most.
Reality.
Now some people say you can make your own reality. There’s this thing called…The Secret. What you envision comes to fruition if you vision hard enough. Now, let’s say you’re a town council and you put your car in neutral and hit the gas…you still won’t go anywhere even if you vision all day long. In fact up here, you might start rolling backwards but that’s another story. Anyway, a modern miracle by the name of Google will lead you to The Secret…
“Without exception, every human being has the ability to transform any weakness or suffering into strength, power, perfect peace, health, and abundance.” So says the official website of The Secret.
Sales tax revenues are getting pounded in both Crested Butte and Mt. Crested Butte. There is no doubt at this end of the valley, we as a community are selling fewer meals in restaurants, fewer t-shirts in the shops, fewer skis and less beer.
Less beer? Talk about suffering. We need to fix this, now. Use The Secret.
Vision, vision, vision. The reality is that compared to a lot of other towns dependent on ski tourism, Crested Butte in particular and Mt. Crested Butte to some extent, are both doing pretty okay…relatively speaking. Crested Butte sales tax is down 10 percent for the year. Mt. Crested Butte is off 15 percent. That’s a lot better than say the Telluride Mountain Village that is down almost 20 percent. We got more secret going than the Mountain Village. Booyah.
Reality says April break is closer than you think, the bank account might be a bit lean and the Jamaican beach vacation a tad expensive. The Secret might say you can find a rum drink with an umbrella at a Utah campsite that you drove to in a 1998 Explorer with the teenage boys. Not too bad really. It’s like the old days…the good old days. I see the vision. And it’s a new (old) reality.
