Edelweiss Chair and beyond... Alpental , The valley and the rest of snocrummy

[BaseFloopy]

I would have supported $55 per day for IKON pass holders over people just trying to experience winter once a year

Of course the Venn diagram of those two groups would show SigNiFIcanT overlap, but the irony did make me chuckle.

[ptavv]

yall going on and on about trains

i want a gondola from si view park in n bend to the gas station across from the pass life condos

put the towers on the iron horse trail and a substation at denny creek campground

$20 round trip ticket

[AK47bp]

yall going on and on about trains

i want a gondola from si view park in n bend to the gas station across from the pass life condos

put the towers on the iron horse trail and a substation at denny creek campground

$20 round trip ticket

Fuck. That’s like 3+ hours each way man.


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[BaseFloopy]

Could also just do a long t-bar and WROD return trail, with snowmaking all the way.

[ptavv]

Fuck. That’s like 3+ hours each way man.

it's like 40 km

some random website i found said we can build modern gondolas that travel at ~30 km/hr

not too bad

no traffic, plenty of time to drink a coffee and put your gear on

put wifi broadcasts on the towers and people can do remote work on the way to the mountain

fuck trains, gondolas are the future

[AK47bp]

it's like 40 km

some random website i found said we can build modern gondolas that travel at ~30 km/hr

not too bad

no traffic, plenty of time to drink a coffee and put your gear on

put wifi broadcasts on the towers and people can do remote work on the way to the mountain

fuck trains, gondolas are the future

I’m in.


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[The AD]

How about a gondola from the Denny Creek trailhead to the top of Wildside or Triple 60? It's a straightline distance of under a mile with an elevation gain of about 1,500 feet. There's already quite a bit of parking there (albeit not currently plowed in the winter). I'm not sure how many parking spots you'd really need to make it worthwhile. Certainly a few hundred. It could also be a convenient place for busses.

edit: looks like ptavv already suggested this for the last leg. Honestly this is something that's actually feasible.



^ Look at that alignment!

[Going Coastal]

Build some multi-level parking garages and charge a premium for covered parking. Put a food/bev stand in the garage and they can hit you for a 15$ hotdog for the drive back too. Hell, make some of it valet and include ski storage with a belt wax and someone will be willing to pay for the "ultra premium" experience.

[rpearce1475]

Build some multi-level parking garages and charge a premium for covered parking. Put a food/bev stand in the garage and they can hit you for a 15$ hotdog for the drive back too. Hell, make some of it valet and include ski storage with a belt wax and someone will be willing to pay for the "ultra premium" experience.

You just described the parking situation at half the resorts in Colorado to a T

[kamtron]

Buses, fools

[chaka]

no tunnel suggestions? c'mon

[The AD]

There's already a tunnel. They just need to bore a hole to the surface and put in an elevator!

[puma]

If they add much more parking, or buses\park and ride, wouldn't we be looking at a total nightmare from a crowd perspective? (worse than what we already see on a mid winter weekend...)

Seems like expansion of terrain and with it, increased uphill capacity is needed. I don't see any of it happening personally.

[The AD]

Yep. Therein lies the problem.

The Summit's current position seems to be that much of the parking overcrowding is due to backcountry users and various lookie-loos crowding the parking lots at the expense of paying customers, and I'm sure there's some of that, but certainly the root cause is a huge influx in population with virtually no increase in recreation accessibility.

[phatty]

If they add much more parking, or buses\park and ride, wouldn't we be looking at a total nightmare from a crowd perspective? (worse than what we already see on a mid winter weekend...)

Seems like expansion of terrain and with it, increased uphill capacity is needed. I don't see any of it happening personally.

They are increasing uphill capacity. Sessel became a triple and their adding Internationale Chair. They also added 20% more chairs to Armstrong. Pretty significant increase in uphill capacity at Alpental. I noticed a difference from the changes last year. Mountain didn't seem as busy as the parking lot made you feel.

[jackattack]

You can always buy more skier storage, parking spots are finite.

[shroom]

build up

[gnarbro365]

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[tmokes]

They actually put a gate there?


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[Ed el Loco]

So people who drop their stuff off the chair into the creek can retrieve it.

[californiagrown]

Get a cat to push in a creek/waterfall gap to exit. Normally the squirrel-catcher goes at the beginning, but this will probably catch more squirrels....

[tmokes]

There goes the pow stash for the night riding….


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[puma]

There goes the pow stash for the night riding….


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I had always assumed that creek would be a challenge to get back across, but obviously never really investigated.

[dangerdad]

my heavenly tour had a high tib/fib rating yesterday, but above 4200 is holding.
They were already scanning plates.

[Mofro261]

There goes the pow stash for the night riding….


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Well since nights are only Thurs-Sat now, pow stash or not there goes the night riding...


There is some fun skiing in lower 8 and that's great if it's a new run routed now skiers right of the chair, but skiers right of Strawberry hill just does.not.go.through.clean until you get all the way under 8. Multiple creek drainages to deal with.

I bet that gate is misplaced on the map and it's actually just for the hike up over the waterfall to Chickenbutt and then that pink line down. Then DGL might make some sense, otherwise whoever made the map is dsylexic.