Nolan Stowers, describes the importance of Chapman Hill for the community. Chapman hill serves as a training ground for young athletes, a family environment, and a healthy way for people to enjoy the outdoors.
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My name is Nolan Stowers and I was born
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and raised here in Durango, Colorado.
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I'm the program director for
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the Durango Winter Sports
Club freestyle team.
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We're here at Chapman Hill
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which has been one of our training grounds
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for the past 20 years here in Durango.
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Chapman Hill is awesome for the public.
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Technically it's a city park.
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Yeah, It's a very inexpensive
place to learn how to ski
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and we have a great freestyle program
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and the race training program
here at night and yeah
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some night skiing on weekdays from two
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until seven and then
weekends from 11 till five.
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Yeah, we've been fortunate
enough to have snowmaking
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for the last couple of
years in Chapman Hill
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and it's given us an
opportunity to build some pretty
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good looking mogul courses
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and have good race
training ground and stuff.
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It's a lot different than training at
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a normal mountain just due to, you know
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the access, how close it is to the town.
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It's a lot easier for,
you know, our athletes
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on the ski team to come over
for two hours to Chapman Hill
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than it is for them to
go to Purgatory all day.
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It's an awesome opportunity
for kids to come
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and ski after school and
kind of get out of the house.
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I've been skiing here 20 years now and
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yeah, I remember back when
we didn't have snowmaking
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and we'd have powder days in town
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and snow days would get called and
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my parents would shuttle us up
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to the top of the hill in their cars
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and they'd drop us off for
powder laps and yeah, it's
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it's pretty cool to see
how much the mountain
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and the Hill here has changed
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and how much support
the community gives it.
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You know
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I think we kind of get the
full spectrum of skiers.
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We've got, looks like three-year-olds
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out there learning for their first time.
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And then you've got guys
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out there who are trying
to crush some GS turns
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before they go to work,
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or go to their restaurant
jobs kind of thing
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For the price of a hundred
dollars lift ticket.
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You're not going to find a
cheaper place to learn how to
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ski. So.
