Wrong again.
We keep getting it wrong here at the Snaz when it comes to Jackson Hole’s Aerial Tram. We thought the tram’s construction would proceed like it did for the first tram, which required far more money and time than original founders Paul McCollister and Alex Morley initially budgeted.
The new tram, which opened officially on Saturday, came in at $31 mil (a 24 percent overrun, probably not that uncommon around here), and was delivered right on schedule.
And we’ll be damned if Blann and Kemmerer didn’t hit it out of the park. After festooning the Village with such log-tumored doozies as the Bridger Center, the Cody House, and the Teton Club, JHMR built a sleek, glass temple in which to house its new favorite machine. Sure, it was sad to watch the old tram building beheaded of its Tyrolean clock tower, but the new building fits the Village better. It looks cooler. Meaner. Like the tram’s crib should.
And appropriately, the tram was delivered to us in full rock star style.
