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You've Gotta Be Kidding Me Right...?
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So word on the street is and this is a local street and a big one at that, the Bird is taking out the TRAM...??? i dont know about you all's but i ski there and this i a huge problem for me. basically life threatening! im actually sitting here in a panic attack!!
Why would bird do this? have they no decency? I dont know who im madder ( is madder a word? ) at right now, Bush or Bird? who should i be? FUCK this is the worst thing to happen to me since democracy in Iraq. Does anyone else know anything about this? True? is it worth killing over?
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ohh yeah i heard they were gunan do that, idk why though, is there something wrong with it orsomething?
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dudes i dont know, but im thinking of lodging a complaint, what else can i do? the tram is the shit!! it makes the bird.
TRAM = BIRD
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well i ski bird like once a year when i go out west and personally i dont really use the tram. First of all i dont like the extra cost and you can reach all that stuff from little cloud and gad 2 has better stuff anyway. Which sucked cause gad2 was closed this year when i went and there was all that unaccesible powder in the trees
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First of all, dont act like losing the tram is not a bid deal, cuz to us locals it is!! so fuck you (in a nice way).
and secondly that did suck when gad2 was down. thats also my lift!! but one day i hiked over there from little cloud and it was glorious, GLORIOUS
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the tram is sweet, but its sort of gay how exclusive it is...even for locals don't ypu have to work at the bird for like 3 years to gain access. they definately shouldn't take it out, but altas better anyways...go there
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no you dont have to have that 3 year thing, as far as i know, ive always skied off of it.
and alta is not better, just different-go to both
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do you work at the bird or just live in SLC?
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local, never worked a day in my life (thats not entirely true)
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i guess there expensive or something...
if jackson ca take it out, it could definately happen to snowbird
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^ shits gay if u ask me. and yes it is an extra fee, and its totally not worth it if your going to ski on sats and fri's plus holidays. BUT if you ski sunday-thursday, the tram is a glorious one way ticket to the top-no stops along the way. Too bad for bird :'(
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eh..the im not a big fan of the tram. I always take it once in the morning to get to the top and its likea cattlecar, where u stand really close to other people uncomfortably for 5 minutes. Once on the top i try to take trails that don't require use of the tram since its more of a hassle.
The good thing about it is how its a nice warm ride up, but other than that i find it a nusance.
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yea its all about pow over comfort...some people are willing to make sacrifices, i guess you just don't liek skiing enough or something...
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Jackson is taking theirs out because it is old, and out dated. And i am fron indiana, and my frist day out west i rode the tram, so there aren't any "exclusive" things to it that i know of. But whatever.. .it better not close, because i have a trip scheduled there for the end of this month.
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From what I've heard they are just thinking that the tram isn't going to last forever, and that it will be around at the very most another ten years. Their whole new, longer Peruvian lift and tunnel to Mineral thing is going to help serve as a replacement for when the tram craps out.
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uhhh... what are u talking about, when i go out west all i ski is pow. The best pow you'll find is off to the sides and/or back country... not from the tram
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a tram and pow have no relation
*sorry for splitting this post into two, but i accidently hit reply too soon*
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yeah, and snow and POW are related
but obviously you can ski pow without a tram, just look at alta. Theres tons of great terrain and snow without a tram
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QUICK UPDATE:
bird is not taking theirs out irs jackson holes's which i already knew was taking theirs out, i was told some very bad information, and ill have to shoot my source!!
sorry for the worry
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