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#HIDDEN VALLEY SKI RESORT EUREKA MO MOVIE#
During winter, he works every day, sometimes in the office, other times in a snowplow.Įverything about Boyd is unassuming: his height (5-foot-10), his weight (185 pounds), the way he dresses (fleece pullover and jeans), his preferred movie genre (sci-fi). He spends much of his day on the phone - more than he'd like. "He always knows what's going on in all his areas and what people are thinking," says Missi Boyd, his wife and co-founder of Hidden Valley. He might flip on FOX News or check his favorite ski blogs. He reads the Post-Dispatch and Wall Street Journal. "I tell everybody, the older I get, the better I was," he jokes, though he's still a scratch player more than three decades after playing on his college team. He swings his Ping irons right-handed, but putts left-handed. The 56-year-old frequently carries a shag bag with him, hitting balls when he has the chance. Today he rarely goes, preferring tennis shoes to ski boots.
He didn't try on a pair of skis until he was 27, just a few years before opening his first ski resort. Here's the thing about Boyd: He's not a skier. As they speak, sometimes fighting back tears, their words are pierced by occasional bursts of applause from outside.Īnd missing from this great spectacle, working more than 1,100 miles away: the owner of Hidden Valley, Tim Boyd. The council hears from 42 people, from a business owner to a passionate skier with cerebral palsy. The meeting lasts more than four hours, running until just past 11:30 p.m. As the meeting is called to order, a chant rises in the night air, starting with one woman and quickly spreading: "Save Hidden Valley. The mayor, dressed in a turquoise shirt, finds his seat beside the city attorney. A young entrepreneur wears a tie-dyed T-shirt that reads, "Make Snow, Not War." A pair of ski patrollers sits side by side in matching red-and-white jackets. The room fills to capacity, with more than 100 people squeezing inside.
#HIDDEN VALLEY SKI RESORT EUREKA MO TV#
Over the course of a month and a half, the drama unfolded in newspapers, on TV and in locals' conversations - with the loudest outcry at a September 22 city council meeting. But when a dispute erupted in early September between Hidden Valley Ski Area and Wildwood, causing the resort's owner to threaten to close, skiers suddenly emerged from all over the Midwest. Louis - was a relatively quiet place, one of those dots on the map that most people blow past on I-44. Indeed, before this fall, Wildwood - a quaint city of 35,000 nestled in the hills west of St. "This is like something out of a movie," she says. Standing at one edge of the lot, 23-year-old Jane Tellini stares in amazement.
#HIDDEN VALLEY SKI RESORT EUREKA MO FULL#
A policeman guards the door to city hall, informing newcomers the room is full but they can listen to loudspeakers set up especially for the occasion. Big Heart" and "Wildwood - City of Extortion." Firefighters watch as more than 300 people filter into the parking lot.Īcross the road, teens gather around a red SUV and sell "Save Hidden Valley" T-shirts for $12.
They hold makeshift signs that read, "Small Hill. They've come wearing ski caps and neon goggles, clutching snowboards and skis in the 70-degree weather.
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