I listened with interest to the Feb. 20 edition of “Talk Around Town” on KHNS regarding winter tourism. A great diversity of users enjoy the grand landscape of Haines, so I was surprised that backcountry skiing was not mentioned by any of the participants.

One of them did point out that Haines offers exceptional skiing, for which people come great distances to experience. Haines heli-skiing is well known, and rightly so. It seems local tourism…