“Too much of this”
Breckenridge Resort boasts a total of 35 lifts that its visitors can use to access 187 trails. As many as 20,000 skiers and snowboarders ride those lifts on Breck’s busiest days, and when you extend that many visits over the six months they’re in operation, you end up with…a lot of things getting lost. Electronics fall out of unzipped ski jacket pockets, gloves and mittens get dropped, ski poles, car keys, people unload their trash (unfortunately), and apparently the occasional message in a bottle all end up on the ground below those lifts. And if any of those things aren’t found or collected before the next storm comes, well, you can kiss it goodbye.
Once all that snow has melted and the season comes to an end, Breckenridge holds an annual Mountain Clean Up Day. Employees come out to the resort and scour the areas under those lifts for everything left behind. This year’s Mountain Clean Up Day saw 150 people come out for the effort and they managed to collect 780 pounds of trash and lost items. According to Powder, the bounty included “ski poles, phones, vapes, AirPods, driver’s licenses, ski passes,” and even some items that were pretty critical to finishing a day on the slopes — “a whole pair of snowboard boots, several rental skis, and one tiny little rental ski boot.”
The funniest items Breck reported coming back with were a spatula, an iPod Nano (was it buried since the Obama administration?), and a bona fide message in a bottle.
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