9News promoting LNT on Uncompahgre

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At least it's not the golf team.

"World's Highest Kickoff" with the Gunnison HS football team.
How lame is this? Discuss.
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What the actual F ?!?

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Double Lame. Littering - ball is somewhere below the peak. Wilderness - exceeded max group size of 15.

EDIT: probably triple lame, 9news probably does not have a permit for commercial video production in wilderness.

So much wrong with this, sigh.
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im gonna go to somewhere slightly higher, kick a ball, and then pick it up later just to spite these people
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I think we should all bombard 9News with a bunch of WTF emails.....
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This makes my blood boil. :evil:
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denvermikey wrote: Tue Aug 16, 2022 4:19 pm I think we should all bombard 9News with a bunch of WTF emails.....
Agreed. After I was done laughing at his name, I started looking for Quentin Sickafoose's email address, but gave up after a while.
If someone finds it, please share.
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I contacted GMUG National Forest on their facebook page. Hopefully they can reach out to the parties involved and maybe work with them to turn this into an educational story.

FB RESPONSE: Thank you Troy. We'll reach out to the district and investigate. Appreciate the notification.
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They need to post a video of that ball being retrieved. If they didn't retrieve it, they need to be fined and then made to go get it. I'm guessing no one meant any harm, they just didn't think it all the way through. The adults who approved this stunt can use it as a teachable moment for the young men. We all do stuff without thinking it all the way through. When you do, you still have to go back and clean up your mess.

I threw a frisbee of the summit of Pikes Peak (east face) about 18 years ago, and I learned my lesson the hard way. No one had to tell me to go get it, that was part of the plan. After walking 45 minutes down to where it landed, I spent 4-1/2 hours looking for it before I found it.
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So, I found this 9news story from last August (8/26/2021). https://www.9news.com/video/news/local/ ... db1a726a1c

Did they go up again this year? Or is this tweet a recycle of last year's story? It looks like last year they caught the ball after kicking it through a goal and this year they just punted it off the summit??

EDIT: Last year was off Handies, so not in Wilderness and they followed LNT. Something broke down this year.
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Different outfits. Looks like it is an annual tradition....
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