Sue wrote:

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Downhill skiing was invented by lazy Brits who CBA to walk up so they
took the train up and skied down. They were thrown out of the Club for
this, and quite right too - without them there'd be no concrete
apartment blocks, no drifts of cigarette butts, no clouds of dope fumes,
no mogul fields, no cable cars so big you can see them from outer space,
avalanches would inconvenience only the wildlife...

When I find myself starting the "It is no longer like it used to be"
diatribe, usually in connection with the type of visitors to ski
resorts, I am reminded of Whymper telling of how the new mountain
railway to Zermatt brought a much less desirable class of individual
to the village.

I further remind myself of how, if one wishes to find 'un-spoiled' and
un-visited mountains then there are .... one or two .... in highly
inaccessible countries. These may well go through the same process.

Book now so you can whine about the old days when the time comes.