It’s less than 250,000 minutes until the new Aerial Tram opens at the Vill on December 20, 2008.

Notwithstanding previous snarky comments about the progress of the new tram, it looks like construction is ticking along like a Swiss watch.

This video is the first of four that we’re making to celebrate the transformation from old tram to new tram, as part of JHMR’s campaign to give away two spots on First Box, as in . . . first first first Box.

That’s right — you can be on the first tram, legally, legitimately, without having to pull some sort of lame and transparent “I’m with the Media” angle, like, say, by promising to broadcast a live web video from the very first tram.

new jackson hole aerial tram car

Seeing as how there’s not exactly a Wi-fi hotspot covering the 4,139 vertical feet of Rendezvous Mountain, I have no idea how to pull that one off. We may need a miracle. Might need to go talk to the Swissy Dopplemeisters about it.

Thanks to Steam Powered Airplane for the music, Wink, Inc. for the (sniff) old tram footy and to Peter “Kubrick of the Cable” Pilafian for the construction footy, and thanks to Lynsey Dyer for production assistance.