Bass Hole Open for Business
What one of The Goat’s readers dubbed, the “Bass Hole” opened yesterday at Snowbird. The 600-foot tunnel connects Peruvian Gulch and Mineral Basin allowing skiers easier access to that side of the mountain. I know my friend Alex who once skied to the bottom of Mineral Basin only to find a closed chairlift would have been stoked on this idea about three years ago—that’s a lonely bootpack to the top.
via Ski Press
By- rockythompson
This entry was posted on WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2006 - 2:53 P.M. and is filed under Story, Snowboarding, Skiing. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
December 13th, 2006 at 3:11 pm
Snowbird: Pioneering high-density gaper transit. Unsatisfied with the large, difficult to pass waves of asshats disgorging from the tram, they made the BassHole to expel a steady stream of steaming, semi-solid gaperdom.
December 13th, 2006 at 3:37 pm
be sure to look for the Techweenie at the head of the line.
December 13th, 2006 at 4:09 pm
Darn right, I’ll be wearing my Chicken-shaped hat and my rear-entry boots.
December 13th, 2006 at 4:12 pm
Techweenie, I would think that you would welcome a nice place for all the ‘gapers’ to gather, away from your precious fresh stash of freshies, or whatever the hell you hippies call powder snow these days.
As an approaching-middle-age gaper myself, I for one welcome our tunnel digging snow overlords. That Tram was stinky sometimes.
December 13th, 2006 at 6:33 pm
Chicken shaped hat and rear entry boots! Humm sounds kinky I might be into that.
December 13th, 2006 at 6:37 pm
So let me get this straight… people are expected to WALK 600 feet. I mean surely there must be a conveyor or something. Hey does anyone know if you can get qualified to ride a magic carpet wearing Walk-ease’s?
December 14th, 2006 at 11:20 am
Cool, Man this saves the day. I mean now they don’t have to worry about having any untouched snow in Mineral Basin after 9:15 am.
January 2nd, 2007 at 7:22 pm
hail the tunnel….it takes a load off the tram. ride the tunnel and check out the sherpa inside running the coffee stand. He’s no gaper. This sherpa has the speed record for climbing everest. no joke