The idea of a tram connecting Solitude Ski Resort in Big Cottonwood Canyon to The Canyons is being talked and reconsidered again. The proposal is with Talisker Mountain Inc. to build a tram or lift between the two resorts.
This would not be ski lift, as you would normally think and not put anyone on the mountain. It would be strictly to transport (skiers or whoever) over the top of the Wasatch Mountains from the two resorts. It would not effect backcountry skiing which has been the major complaint in the past.
The proposal has not been submitted to the Unita-Wasatch-Cache National Forest that would be needed for the transportation link because any support structure on the Big Cottonwood Canyon side would be in Forest Service land.
The information for this blog is from the Salt Lake Tribune 9/28/2011 by Mike Gorrell.
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