Article: HOWLIN' OVER WOLF CREEK SKI AREA OPERATORS BATTLE DEVELOPERS OVER SCALE OF VILLAGE PROJECT.(Business)

Byline: Joanne Kelley, Rocky Mountain News

WOLF CREEK -- This bare-bones ski area has an abundance of one thing: snow. More of it falls here than any place in Colorado.

With lift tickets holding at a relatively low $45 a day, it attracts people on a budget. Some are experts, others are content to ski all day in outerwear fashioned out of plastic trash bags and duct tape. They come to this stretch of the San Juan Mountains for the 465 inches of annual snowfall. No one comes for the nightlife or upscale boutiques, or to stay in luxury hotels or condos.

There's none of that here - at least not yet.

Not until Texas billionaire Red McCombs ...

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