While Petitt owns hotels and once headed Choice Hotels (Comfort Inn, EconoLodge), Echo Mountain has no lodging, restaurants or condos.

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Petitt lets his customers, who cover their snowboards with decals, slap them on anything at Echo Mountain, even his walls.

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Two years ago he opened Echo Mountain, which caters to a young crowd who would look more at home on skateboards.

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While Petitt owns hotels and once headed Choice Hotels (Comfort Inn, EconoLodge), Echo Mountain has no overnight lodging, restaurants or condos.

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Petitt's snowmaking covers 45 acres, and Echo resurfaces much of the mountain on most nights.

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Many towns on the eastern plains of Colorado, far from the snowboarders and mountain-bikers, have heard just the echo of the latest boom.

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