Why the Squaw-Alpine gondola won’t ever happen (and why that’s a good thing)

When I was 19, I walked around with an ‘X-Files: I want to believe’ t-shirt on (late-bloomer). I feel like Squaw/Alpine should issue similar gear for their proposed connector gondola and then look and see that the calendar says: ‘it’s 2015 and the time for a gondola has passed.’

By Andrew Pridgen

My X-Files shirt was not only aligning my sci-fi/Gillian Anderson fandom but hopes for something greater, something better out there. To me the key word in the statement is “want”. In this context, I want to believe it’ll snow again. I want to believe #squalpine will happen. I want to believe my son will grow up in a state where he doesn’t have to take a bucket in with him each time he showers (or not have to shower from a bucket).

But sometimes, most of the time, want is all we got.

This year was the perfect…