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"Q: Do the plans include the gondola connecting to Snowbasin?

A: Yes, the plans do involve a leg of the gondola that would go to the top of the mountain which would allow skiers with a Snowbasin lift ticket to enter Snowbasin."

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Submitted by the office of
Ogden Mayor Matthew Godfrey
Ogden City Update
April 20, 2006

"The word 'yes' implies a future connection between the two resorts, which is wrong. The real answer to that is 'no,' and that is something I made plain to the mayor last year. And I made it plain to Chris Peterson."

Clint Ensign
Senior vice-president
Sinclair Oil Company
Standard-Examiner
April 28, 2006

"It only says that from the top of the mountain you can access the resort. That language is trying to to say that from the proposed link that goes to the top of the mountain you can, as a matter of geography, go to Snowbasin."

Ogden City Mayor
Matthew Godfrey
Standard-Examiner
April 28, 2006

Bob Geiger, chairman of Lift Ogden, a group of businesses and individuals supporting the gondola proposal, agreed that the question seemed to imply a connection. He said he was taking that question off the Lift Ogden Web site immediately. "That statement splits hairs. The fact of the matter is the guy from Sinclair is right and we'll eliminate it."

Bob Geiger
Lift Ogden Chair
Standard-Examiner
April 28, 2006

They were merely using the word allow in the strictly "geographical" sense, you see. They didn't actually come out and say Snowbasin would allow it! Yeah... That's the ticket!

Oh what a tangled web we weave...

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