Article: When world views collide: will Ski Santa Fe's proposed expansion destroy a way of life?

The first two things you saw last winter as you drove out of Albuquerque's airport were a huge billboard for Ski Santa Fe, and directly beneath it a weathered Indian woman selling long strands of dried red chili peppers that hung from the back of her dusty, beat-up pickup truck. And that singular scene would stick in your mind, because it captured the story of much of the American Southwest, and of Ski Santa Fe--a story of conflicting needs and values, a story of commercial growth versus old ways of life, a story about raw shamanistic beauty and its power to divide ... or heal.

Ski Santa Fe sits in a natural bowl high up on a mountainside just outside of Santa Fe, ...

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