Mountain Covers Its'Nipple'

Associated Press ^ | 3/13/2003 | Associated Press

[Freakazoid]

ALTA, Wyo. (AP) -- Pressure from uncomfortable skiers and other tourists has prompted the Grand Targhee Ski and Summer Resort to cover the second half of the name of one of its mountains.

Mary's Nipple is now just Mary's, and signs with the word "nipple" have been covered with tape. New signs were to arrive in about two weeks.

But the covered signs have rankled some local skiers, who feel a bit of their history has been lost.

"If the name changed, it wouldn't be the same," said Mark Franklin of Driggs, Idaho, who has skied the mountain for 26 years without feeling offended. "It's always been Mary's Nipple to me, and probably 99.9 percent of the people around here will agree with me."

The name dates back three decades to a story about a waitress named Mary, who was working at Targhee's Trap Bar and streaked through it and the resort one night. The U.S. Forest Service has never acknowledged it officially.

[Freakazoid]

Couldn't they have just manufactured an enormous bra?

[First_Salute]

It's a bit nipply around here?

[Publius]

Back in the Eighties, the USGS decided to bowdlerize the names of certain items in the Oregon Cascades. Whorehouse Meadows became Naughty Girl Meadows, and Bullshit Springs became Bullshirt Springs.

They never learn.

[swarthyguy]

Ridiculous.

[AmericanInTokyo]

This political correctness is idiotic. How niggardly of them.

[TADSLOS]

Maybe they should consider naming it Mary's Areola instead, but it doesn't quite have the same elevation or ring to it.

[Cincinatus]

The west is full of landmarks named nipple and sh*thouse and whorehouse and such.

One of my personal favorites is Mollie's Nipple, in southwestern Utah. Great scenery there!

[NEWwoman]

What's next? Renaming the parts of a baby bottle?

[freedomson]

If it had been named Militant Lesbian Mary's Nipple everything would've been okay.

[Diddle E. Squat]

"Mary's" is an odd name. Perhaps a better choice might have been "Mary's Mosquito Bite".

[moyden]

Does it grow in the winter?

[Billthedrill]

Howdy, Pub'! They did the same thing in Idaho - "Squaw T!t Mountain" became "Squaw Mountain," now itself politically incorrect, and "Pissant Butte" became "Ant Butte." Of course, the locals still use the old names. Dad was working for the BLM trying to navigate fire crews through old terrain with new maps. He was less than amused...

[Myrddin]

They changed "Chinks Peak" to "Chinese Peak" around Pocatello.

[Freakazoid]

I agree with that change. Chinks Peak is hard to pronounce. LOL!

[Political Junkie Too]

I guess that Jackson Hole at the Grand Tetons is next.

-PJ

[Freakazoid]

"Jackson Hole". Isn't that the thing in the middle of Michael Jackson's face?

[geopyg]

To the east of Targhee are the Grand Tetons. Shall we just call them the Grand now? As I recall they were named by French fur trappers who saw them as they trekked across the plains from the east (and no doubt homesick for some female companionship!)

[geopyg]

Sorry - the range is the Tetons, there's only one GRAND.

[Sacajaweau]

Lemon Mountain??? Cantaloupe Mountain??

[geopyg]

Sorry - the range is the Tetons, there's only one GRAND.