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12-10-2021, 10:51 AM #526
I’m wondering how this will impact my kids early morning training at snowbird. F the road is clogged w cars waiting to get into the Alta lot at 8…..what time do I need to leave to get my kids clicked in at gad valley by 6:40?
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12-10-2021, 11:04 AM #527Registered User
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12-10-2021, 11:09 AM #528Registered User
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I know their website says "dedicated early morning parking area", but sounds like you could park in the "early morning" lot during the week for free, after 8am, then go ski at Alta, with no paid parking for that day. At which point, the BC user parking could get even more limited if even available at all. Not sure what the signage will say, or about enforcement.
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12-10-2021, 11:13 AM #529
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12-10-2021, 11:34 AM #530Registered User
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12-10-2021, 11:45 AM #531
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12-10-2021, 12:28 PM #532
A saying thats been bouncing around in my head of late is 'The days are long but the years are short'. Seems like just a few years had passed since I was working at the OG snowpine while parking wherever I wanted to and then I look at a calendar and see that it was more than 10 years ago. The idea that a org who relies on public lands for their business model can control and monetize access to adjacent public lands is absurd to me but I no longer live there and don't have as much invested as others in this thread so i've kept my thoughts to myself up to now. In my mind as long as the state of UT and its taxpaying public is maintaining, clearing, and controlling the road the public should be afforded access to public lands. Tell Alta/Bird that if public access to public lands is going to be restricted above the USFS lots that all infrastructure maintenance and upkeep above that point is their fiscal responsibility.
Things like paid parking everywhere in LCC, fast tracks access at the bird, and limited/removed access to dawn patrol touring would have resulted in pitchforks and torches 10 years ago, now it is some online whining and a feedback campaign. What fresh hell will trying to ski in LCC (without a room at a lodge or some other economic gate) be like 10 years from now?Three fundamentals of every extreme skier, total disregard for personal saftey, amphetamines, and lots and lots of malt liquor......-jack handy
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12-10-2021, 12:39 PM #533
Gondola seems like a much worse idea than a proper Bus system.
-Gondy funnels all users to the same parking lot.. and it cannot hold enough cars to dent road/parking issues.
-Government insiders bought up the proposed land and thought they could railroad this massive project by taxpayers-it is an insult to the local population. >If they want to privately fund it? that could be a fine addition but not a total solution either way.
-50 min ride on Gondy? > I been using bus for a few years .. it's like 35 mins on a non pow or weekend fest
If there were enough busses during peak hours..and parking for bus riders at those lots it could be a real easy button to get up canyon.
- Driving or Bussing to a gondy lot ...then a 50 min ride on a gondola (+ waiting on line there on a busy day) makes it a seriously long day , compared to hopping on a Bus and getting delivered right to the Lift.
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PROBLEM> The main Bus stops are a total shitshow on busy days. There is no room at those lots to properly launch a larger Bus campaign as its designed.
- So, to make a dent in traffic from what I see> is dedicated Busses for the main stops /canyons...while the local Bus lines still grab population from their various stops around SLC area. And build avalanche sheds in the worst areas of the road (that's needed either way) to relax road closures when its nuking snow. Dedicate a bus lane up canyon.
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12-10-2021, 12:46 PM #534Registered User
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12-10-2021, 12:46 PM #535
Soul, my gears are turning if Backcountry Hunters and Anglers can begin any campaign here, but I think I need to try to get in contact with the head of WBA for a bigger conversation here.
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12-10-2021, 01:02 PM #536
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12-10-2021, 02:08 PM #537
The Soli parking lot i guess has a film crew up there with like 8 to 10 travel trailers taking up a good chunk of the parking lot.
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12-10-2021, 03:02 PM #538
Maybe that is why they have 4 trails open compared to like 70 at Alta.
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12-10-2021, 03:03 PM #539Registered User
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12-10-2021, 04:36 PM #540Registered User
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It's a Netflix Lindsay Lohan movie, her comeback special.
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12-10-2021, 04:59 PM #541
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12-10-2021, 05:06 PM #542
Yummm.
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12-10-2021, 05:29 PM #543
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12-10-2021, 05:35 PM #544
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12-10-2021, 05:57 PM #545
Lotta angst out there. Maybe good reason. Maybe not.
Future's not set in stone, boys, but the times have changed, not are a 'changin.
Alta Ski Area is a business and they need parking. Maybe y'all haven't noticed how many folks not buying lift tickets are taking up the parking stalls of those that are...
Wasn't a problem back when. Sure is now. What to do?
Solution for dawn patrol:
Write the Uintah Wasatch Cache National Forest and ask for backcountry access parking at the head of the LCC. For fuck's sake they own most of the land up there. Surely there is a way. While you're at it, ask for expansion of the White Pine lot. Moving east from the existing lot there is room for twenty times the number of cars currently.
Never seen a too large FS parking lot. Always undersized.Time spent skiing cannot be deducted from one's life.
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12-10-2021, 07:39 PM #546
Adding a 1 or 2 level parking deck above all existing lots at resorts will solve this cluster fuck of a problem without compromising the integrity of the canyon.... However the crappy tram is supposed to be paid for dump that money into building parking decks for resorts instead so resorts aren't stuck with the bill...IMO this is a win win....nobody has to look at a stupid tram, parking is essentially doubled or tripled, cars are funneled off the road faster, never have to plow the lower decks....How are parking decks/garages not the obvious solution here?
sorry to contribute to all the whining,...will post stoke soon.
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12-10-2021, 08:41 PM #547Registered User
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12-10-2021, 09:03 PM #548
For the angsty: there's only one thing left to do...
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12-10-2021, 09:16 PM #549
seems that the strategy is working.
nostalgia is for the weak.
went bell to bell. front rows weren’t necessary for a beautiful chunk of the day.
guess i don’t miss the marginal.
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12-10-2021, 09:28 PM #550
Mike M wanted to build a parking garage at Alta. FS said no.
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