It probably won’t be quite this exciting.
Snowbird ski resort will install a highly controversial roller coaster on its mountain. The Salt Lake County Planning Commission voted unanimously to approve the “mountain coaster” last Wednesday. Snowbird already has summer rides including: “the Alpine Slide, Mountain Flyer, Ropes Course, Climbing Wall, Kids’ Inflatables, Bungy Trampolines and Mechanical Bull will all open June 8th,” said The Ski Channel.
“We are excited to provide another form of summer recreation for our guests and Utah’s growing population. Working with Salt Lake County and City to create a workable solution for all parties.” - Snowbird President Bob Bonar
This approval is contingent on the full details of the roller coaster plans being finalized, but you can be sure that they’ll approve it all the way through. Final designs and installation timelines will be available in fall 2013.
SNOWBIRD ROLLER COASTER:
- Will be on ski resort side of the highway entirely within the current developed resort footprint
Alpine Coaster @ Park City
COASTER PROS:
- It’ll be damn fun
- Boost summertime business in Little Cottonwood Canyon
“This is an important project for us to help keep our company competitive and a competitive business and will also help to contribute to the local economy and local tourism.” - Snowbird General Manager Bob Bonar
protesting the original coaster plan
COASTER CONS:
- It could be an eye-sore
- The environmental impact of building it
“It’s gonna be, like, lame, dude.” – local environmentalist
Do you folks think this is all too much? Is Snowbird turning into a circus?
Check out the original plans for the roller coaster:
Looks fun to me. how do you ski over it in the winter?
A booter!
Sounds fucking stupid…
Might provide for an awesome jib during the winter though.
rode the one at Park Ciy… pretty ghey
Save our canyon = douchebags
If you play SSX, you already know what a killer rail slide combo potential this thing is.
In honor of this site, we are planning to name it the Chimney Sweep.
You must be new here. The chimney is at squaw and is gay. Snowbird is actually quite nice.
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Save Our Canyons = rich ignorant assholes
it isn’t going to be on the skiable side of the mountain, unless they’ve changed their plans again.
they did. original plans were to put it on superior on land that dick bass owns. the “compromise” (read: “carefully planned strategy by snowbird”) is going to be that bass “hands over” that land on superior to the forest service and the coaster gets built in p-gulch……….. oh…. and just this tiny other little detail that the land is exchanged for permits to use public land in mary ellen gulch. were talking several years out for that part though
Fuck the environmental bitches who hate on the bird for building on the land they already own. If it weren’t for those people snowbird would have a tram to the top of little superior. Fuck yeah!
Summers are a financial black hole for ski resorts. This will hopefully get more people up canyon to spend money. It’s not just coaster ticket sales, but revenue from food and drink, and hopefully the other summer attractions that will keep them solvent in the summer months. I mean, riding up Peruvian with no snow is fun right?
Keep the coaster out of the canyon…. these coasters are for thrill seekers who cannot control their own body enough to thrill themselves. Send them to Disney….
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THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH YOU IF DONT LIKE DONT RIDE IT SIMPLE.
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