Intrawest owns just one Colorado resort, a formerly down-at-the-hills ski area called Copper Mountain that drew just under 1 million visitors last year.
But in the bowels of a particular metropolitan area--where conduits are already becoming choked with thick copper wire--the human-hair-sized glass has almost immediate prospects.
So it happens every now and again that folks scavenging for copper end up cutting through fiberoptic cable, which can shut down phone and data traffic for a limited area.