From Utah: Park City Resorts Wish to Connect (UPDATED 2014 for ONE WASATCH Project)

[thetrailboss]

Good we can bring all the illegal immigrants to your town & if you don't like it you can move on.

Huh?

Two different things there. Fwiw the connection points that need to be made won't consume that much land and no real prize bc spots that I'm aware of.


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[thetrailboss]

And just read today that Solitude applied for a permit to replace the Summit Double with a HSQ.


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[deadheadskier]

Good we can bring all the illegal immigrants to your town & if you don't like it you can move on.

put the bottle down boat

 

[steamboat1]

put the bottle down boat

As long as it doesn't affect you all's good.

Got it.

 

[Edd]

Good we can bring all the illegal immigrants to your town & if you don't like it you can move on.

Is there a connection between illegal immigrants and this proposal? Just Googled it and not seeing anything.

 

[steamboat1]

Is there a connection between illegal immigrants and this proposal? Just Googled it and not seeing anything.

Wouldn't expect you to.

 

[mbedle]

Wouldn't expect you to.

I am so lost about this, what the heck is the connection with immigrants and One Wasatch?

 

[AdironRider]

I am so lost about this, what the heck is the connection with immigrants and One Wasatch?

He's trying to equate deporting illegals to displacing a couple me first backcountry skiers. An odd comparison on every level.

 

[mbedle]

He's trying to equate deporting illegals to displacing a couple me first backcountry skiers. An odd comparison on every level.

Thanks AdironRider, I obviously didn't pick up on that. Still not sure how One Wasatch is going to displace anyone???

 

[thetrailboss]

Thanks AdironRider, I obviously didn't pick up on that. Still not sure how One Wasatch is going to displace anyone???

I honestly don't think so.

 

[thetrailboss]

Update on OneWasatch:

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/politics/58389385-90/ski-lift-canyons-plan.html.csp

The plan has been released:

Note that the lift configuration at Alta and Snowbird is probably 15 years off.....

http://onewasatch.com/

 

[ss20]

Everytime I see this plan I laugh. It's more insane and impossible than Otten's plan at the Balsams.

 

[AdironRider]

Except its really not that hard.

This would require about as much physical effort to connect Killington and Pico ultimately. Although the legal wrangling might be a wash between act 250 in VT and Nimby bc folks out in SLC.

 

[skiNEwhere]

Except its really not that hard.

This would require about as much physical effort to connect Killington and Pico ultimately. Although the legal wrangling might be a wash between act 250 in VT and Nimby bc folks out in SLC.

Key words being physical effort. Not sure how bad the environmental politics are in UT

 

[ss20]

Rigghhhttttt... because if Canyons can't build simple connecting gondola then this is totally feasible.

And I believe the reason why the Canyons-Solitude gondola was shot down was because of the backlash from the backcountry enthusiasts who that thought saving a few acres of precious BC terrain was more valuable than eliminating an hours drive to the other side of the canyon. And the environmentalists didn't like it either....

 

[thetrailboss]

Rigghhhttttt... because if Canyons can't build simple connecting gondola then this is totally feasible.

And I believe the reason why the Canyons-Solitude gondola was shot down was because of the backlash from the backcountry enthusiasts who that thought saving a few acres of precious BC terrain was more valuable than eliminating an hours drive to the other side of the canyon. And the environmentalists didn't like it either....

The OneWasatch Plan really does not involve THAT much additional terrain. A big reason why SkiLink has been tabled was because of the reaction to Talisker's attempt to buy/obtain the federal land and the "go around" move to get the Feds to give them the land. That was what sparked anger.

 

[ScottySkis]

Rigghhhttttt... because if Canyons can't build simple connecting gondola then this is totally feasible.

. And the environmentalists didn't like it either....

You know I dont get the enivionmentaists they say we should not cut down trees for trails but look at how many carraie trails are on all the hiking trails through out the counrty they do not complain about these.

 

[ss20]

The OneWasatch Plan really does not involve THAT much additional terrain. A big reason why SkiLink has been tabled was because of the reaction to Talisker's attempt to buy/obtain the federal land and the "go around" move to get the Feds to give them the land. That was what sparked anger.

Neither did SkiLink. This is 4 skilinks.

 

[x10003q]

This version might actually happen. The planned lifts now is seem to be on private land. It would be great to visit the other areas without worrying about cars/buses/closed roads due to snow. It also might open up Alta to snowboarders.:-o

 

[thetrailboss]

Neither did SkiLink. This is 4 skilinks.

Again, a large part of the furor with SkiLink was that Talisker tried to get the feds in DC to simply hand over the land to them. That was what pissed off folks.

The OneWasatch idea has been around for a long, long time. Only now are we getting the specifics as to where they want to link. The Grizzly Gulch connection is not "wilderness" or remote backcountry as some suggest. Nor is Guardsman Pass. Go up there any weekend in the warm weather months and there are cars everywhere. In the winter it is snowmobile mecca. From what I see they want to run two commuter lifts in each location such that folks are not going to be skiing in those areas but riding lifts.

Personally a part me would like to see this because the Utah ski areas do a lot for our economy here. But a part of me will admit that I'd like less people in LCC.