Skiers’
access
limited
A CLASSIC battle is

brewing on Cypress
mountain.

By t MMER

On one side is Cypress
Bowl Recreations Lid.. the
licensee of the downhill skt
area in Cypress Provincial
Park.

On the other side are
wilderness cross-country
skiers who use the park.

An organization = repre-
senting the wilderness skiers
called Save Cypress Bowl
Committee (SCBC) claim
that Cypress Bowl Reere-
ations (CBR) are using the
police to stop cross-country
wilderness skiers from hav-
ing free access to the
Hollyburn Ridge area of
Cypress Park.

According to Lynn von
Krosigk of the SCBC the
“skiers have no interest in
using the groomed cross-
country runs, but wish to
continue to carry on off
groomed trails."

Krosigk states that CBR’s
actions are contrary to the
Criminal Code because the
company is licensed only to
charge access fees for
groomed runs in a restricted
area.

“The police, however,
have allowed themselves to
be used by Cypress Recre-
ation in three instances in
laying, or threatening to lay,
quite groundless criminal
trespass charges against
wilderness skiers in the park
who are not using the trails
groomed by the company.”

‘ she says.

Von Krosigk contends that
CBR’s actions are a
‘flagrant and most
discriminatory -unconstitu-
tional misuse of the police
and criminal law to assis
Cypress Recreations in a
very deliberate and
calculated severing off the
whole of the Hollyburn
Ridge side of the park as its
private business preserve.

“We gain the impression
from the police that its ac-
tions proceed from a mis-

taken understanding of its,

duty to provide police pro-
tection to Cypress Recre-
ations, because the company
has a business licence and a
special agreement with the
rounicipality,’' she says.

A delegation from SCBC
attended West Vancouve
Council’s regular meeting
Monday to make council
aware of the problems
cross-country skiers face at
Cypress.

The committee wanted
council to insist that CBR
conform to its permit and
stop interfering with public
access to the park.

The group also called for
council to instruct the police
not to misuse their power.

Mayor Derrick Hum-
phreys said that if there was
a dispute over the land, the
matter Jay with the provin-
cial government, since it
controls the park.

Woot was a case oof
trespassing, the matter lay it
the hands of the civil courts,
he said.

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