Climate change threatens our entire way of life, but ski areas and mountain communities are one of the many canaries in the coal mine who will feel the impacts first, which is why STOKE members measure their greenhouse gas emissions and take every effort to reduce their footprint. Mt. Ashland established a GHG baseline in 2016 of 425.78 tons of CO2 after a normal winter and will be creating reduction goals after the 2017/18 season due to their lodge renovations this summer which will affect energy usage data and skew the viability of attaining long-term reduction goals. In the meantime, Mt. Ashland will continue to increase participation in their two alternative transportation initiatives like they did this past season to reduce secondary emissions sources. The Ski Hopper shuttle bus was offered free of charge for the 2016/17 winter which increased ridership from 250 to 1560 passengers and resulted in a net reduction of 21.4 tons of CO2 emissions compared to 1.7 tons of emissions reductions the previous year. Carload Mondays, the ski area’s other carpool incentive that allows up to eight passengers to split the cost of a lift ticket, had 58 cars with a total of 272 participants which saved 6.65 tons of CO2 emissions over the winter. Mt. Ashland’s solar panels also reduced their net emissions by 18.2 tons in its first winter and will remain critical to their GHG management plan as they transition to year-round operations.