Colorado Steamboats' new Gondi is on track!

[Ross Biff]

Apparently it heats your butt and gives you the internet.
Wifi = bad. Just another thing to keep people from where they are.

Let me know the first time some screen- addicted gondi rider goes around the bullwheel and downloads before they notice . Can't be any less likely than stepping off a kerb without looking whilst glued to a phone.

 

[Ross Biff]

Ron - Looks like this is replacing the existing gondi, With up hill capacity a 1000 /hr more ?

Sounds like both bigger cabins and higher speed - that’s quite the upgrade.
It should clear out the morning rush a tad quicker

I'd love to be there for the first season of this new gondi, having been there for the first season of the previous one and the last season of the gondi before that...operators closing the doors and locking you in with a big old key if I recall correctly! Aahhh, the old personal touch.

 

[Crank]

Rode a new gondola at Tignes last season that had comfy molded seats for 4 and had phone charging stations with different cables and had blue tooth speakers. Rode up with a couple of Germans who played Motown tunes. I was afraid I would be subjected to techno.

Looking forward to riding the new Gondi at Steamboat this coming January!

 

[James]

Aspen had a phone hookup to play music in the gondola like 10 yrs ago. Pretty sure they got rid of it due to problems with conflicting music likes.
It’s just a bad idea.

 

[pete]

If only WiFi .. then theory would be little difference as I know of few folks without a smart phone anyhow.

I'd actually find it entertaining if a hover mom pulled out her iPAD to connect. "Oh kids .. scoot in closer so I can get a pic uploaded for facebook"

 

[dbostedo]

I'd actually find it entertaining if a hover mom pulled out her iPAD to connect. "Oh kids .. scoot in closer so I can get a pic uploaded for facebook"

That definitely already happens with phones. Why not an iPad?

 

[James]

Let me know the first time some screen- addicted gondi rider goes around the bullwheel and downloads before they notice . Can't be any less likely than stepping off a kerb without looking whilst glued to a phone.

Nyc attempted to get people to look up and think about safety by putting Haiku’s on lamp posts by crosswalks. That was 2011, when it wasn’t as bad with phones as now.

Maybe a laser light show at the end of the gondola will get them out.


https://nyulocal.com/nyc-dot-putting-wry-haiku-on-traffic-signs-45340408a03f

 

[dbostedo]

...when it wasn’t as bad with phones as now...

I wonder if the stats show that it's not as much of an issue despite increased usage as people adjust and become more capable of knowing where their attention needs to be.

 

[KingGrump]

I wonder if the stats show that it's not as much of an issue despite increased usage as people adjust and become more capable of knowing where their attention needs to be.

No.

 

[pete]

That definitely already happens with phones. Why not an iPad?

thinking of those with only WiFi and no cellular hook up. I just recall and still see at school functions moms pull these out for photos, video and hold them up. Only note them as a 10 inch device stands out.

just seems funny in a quaint way to me