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07-24-2019, 06:06 PM #801
Looks like Forest Service approved as well, but alignment 4, the easternmost.
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/artic...s-14120412.php
https://www.sierrawatch.org/forest-s...dola-decision/
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07-26-2019, 08:46 PM #802
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07-26-2019, 11:15 PM #803Registered User
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hi idgaf about tahoe, i hear that place has been a shitshow for years. since the world revolves around Jackson Hole, does anyone have inside info as it relates to Alterra (KSL)'s relationship to JH? anyone who just quit a middle management job@JH with juicy gossip? shits too nice right now with biking and fishing, help us start bitching
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07-26-2019, 11:41 PM #804
Nope, but you can be sure we'll be crowding your tram line next season with OUR IKON PASSES
TJ - personally, I agree. Village is a much bigger deal. But I bet SW litigates both.sproing!
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07-29-2019, 03:45 PM #805
FS gave preliminary approval, final approval still pending.
The AM residents are unhappy about the existing Gazex exploders, which protect the road they use to access their houses. Now Squaw has agreed to eliminate 8 exploders that would protect the gondola. Squaw says exploders reduce risk to patrollers; I don't know if this is true or the real motive for placing them. If it is true and given 3 patrollers killed in the last 10 years doing snow safety, eliminating the exploders to please the AM residents, most of whom I assume ski at AM, seems like a bad move. Not that I'm a gondola fan.
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07-29-2019, 07:16 PM #806
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I’m going to be honest... I will absolutely use this gondola and had a few days last season where I wish it already existed. Yes, if I was in charge there’s other things I’d do first, but just saying.
New hot wheels should be great!I ski 135 degree chutes switch to the road.
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07-29-2019, 08:36 PM #807
With Gazex they can remote pop em many times during a storm. Smaller avalanches result, less risk... a great solution. Stupid complaint by the homeowners IMHO.
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07-29-2019, 08:52 PM #808
In theory. Except when the gazex gets buried and becomes unusable...which happened.
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07-29-2019, 11:21 PM #809Rod9301
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Still the gazex saved lives
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07-29-2019, 11:45 PM #810
OG, where does it say that Squaw agreed to remove 8 Gazex? afaik, that would be all 8 on AM road: https://squawalpine.com/explore/blog/18-new-gazex
I think the complaint is from the homeowners is that it sounded like a massive bomb, and it's going off right above their houses. I wouldn't like it either.
Then again, I do like accessing skiing and (better yet) 'trollers not dying.
If you wanna get dorky, here's what the gold-heeled patricians of Alpine Shreadows think: https://www.alpinemeadowsestatesasso...-alpine-valleysproing!
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07-30-2019, 06:44 AM #811
Gazex is a pretty good tool for continually triggering new snow avalanches.
One problem with them is that since they are fixed, they harden the snow in the vicinity, and can lead to a false sense of security when hunting deep slab.
On a plus note they make a pretty good bivy. The larger exploders make a romantic getaway for two!
You just unplug the sparking unit to avoid a wake up call...Time spent skiing cannot be deducted from one's life.
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07-30-2019, 10:06 PM #812
sorry. I forgot to attach the article link I meant to include. SQAM agreed to remove 8 exploders from he gondola plan. They are not planning to remove existing exploders AFAIK.
https://www.sierrasun.com/news/place...-base-gondola/
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07-30-2019, 10:11 PM #813Registered User
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08-30-2019, 09:01 PM #814
QST 106 with with shift for $970. Really
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09-16-2019, 04:36 PM #815
And....lawsuit filed. By the Granite Chief Wilderness Protection League (who??) https://protectgranitechief.wordpres...0ugL-iYAMV1ENo
sproing!
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09-16-2019, 05:56 PM #816
their ksl darth vader photo made me laugh.
according to the writ, Granite Chief Wilderness Protection League "has its principal place of business in Truckee, California, in Placer County"
it looks like that ngo has at least one heavy-hitter
the related Resource Renewal Institute has an interesting website
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09-16-2019, 07:27 PM #817
Interesting comment: "As soon as the Gondola is approved across Granite Chief is allowed, that’s the only connection the Ski Resorts need to have the gondola continue to Twin Peaks, Barker Pass and then Ellis Peak to Homewood Mtn Resort. They’ve been trying for years. As great of a skiing adventure as it may become, it will come at a great cost of disturbance of back country hiking and snow shoeing and so many adventure parks. Homewood Mtn Resort is placing on the North side, the Mid-Mountain Chalet which we know will have the finest restaurant open winter/summer for a great adventure experience. Then you can ski from Squaw to HMR, I can just imagine all the adventure parks that they could develop. What happened to John Muir’s way of love of the enviroment. It will destroy what is precious about Lake Tahoe just for the few to make billions. This cannot be allowed!"
It's a plot to create an interconnect to Homewood? BS. This is the kind of paranoia and overreach that gives us environmentalists a bad name. The GCWPL talks about the gondola destroying pristine wilderness, when it is not in the Wilderness. Hikers to the GCW are already exposed ski infrastructure in SV, AM and White Wolf. Likewise the village expansion is described by Sierra Watch as destroying a pristine mountain valley. People who have never seen either of these places believe this BS. I'm not a fan of either the gondola and the village and there are good reasons to oppose the village in particular--or to use it to leverage major mass transit support out of Alterra, but desecration of the wilderness is not one of them. That ship has sailed.
If people want to protect wilderness how about using the money to lobby for a Castle Peak Wilderness?
I'm sick of a rich person or a handful of them funding lawsuits like this. If they want to use their money to protect the land do it the right way--buy the White Wolf property from Troy Caldwell, maybe by donating to the Truckee-Donner Land Trust for that purpose, the way Bill Hewlett killed the Coldstream Canyon ski area years ago.
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09-17-2019, 08:21 AM #818
Agreed, OG. First I knew of that Coldstream resort - it was planned to be 12,000 acres! https://www.sierrasun.com/news/parks...ure-debated-2/
sproing!
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09-17-2019, 10:02 AM #819
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09-17-2019, 10:59 AM #820Registered User
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I don’t think it’s a conspiracy, but I can still remember that when Alpine and Homewood were owned by the same developer there were a LOT of people talking about the idea of a gondola connecting the two.
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09-17-2019, 12:08 PM #821
Independence Lake was a Disney plan, interestingly enough. Similar to the Mineral King idea.
meter-man, I have a copy of this book you can borrow. She goes into the history of the plan to connect lifts from the interstate all the way to Homewood.
The rumor of the AM-->HW gondy was going around during the JMA era 15 years ago too.
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09-17-2019, 03:06 PM #822
They should keep these plans in the library. Resort reconstruction and expansion after the basin and Truckee river canyon burn will be simple.
Y’all know there’s planning for fees for tourists to enter the basin by passenger vehicle?
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09-17-2019, 04:09 PM #823Registered User
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Official KSL Bitch AND Bitch about people bitching about KSL thread
“The rumor of the AM-->HW gondy was going around during the JMA era 15 years ago too.[/QUOTE]
Yep, that’s what I was referring to. Back when JMA first got control of both, someone mentioned the connect idea to me and I said there’s no fuckin way that is possible or would ever happen. Then I kept hearing it and from smart people that should know better than listen to some bs, so whether it was feasible or or not, the idea was out there and likely had some actual planning behind it
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09-18-2019, 09:20 AM #824
The talk about connecting AM to Homewood was just talk, never any actual plan. There was planning for a lift to the head of Ward Canyon (High T), that never went anywhere. Nowadays the idea is ludicrous--the money is in building luxury condos.
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09-18-2019, 11:55 AM #825
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