Skipocrisy?

Frequently, my wife question the impact that alpine skiing, in its most popular form has on our environment. I respond that snow-making might be of concern, but eventually man-made snow runs off and is in fact recycled. 

What I conveniently forget to add is that it takes energy to compress the air that blow the mixture up into the air, and in Park City, our electrical power is still mostly made of fossil fuels that spew CO2 in the air...