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Postby recordalley » Sun Jul 18, 2010 6:05 am

How lucky we are to live in PS. How many places can you hike most of the year & have the tramway to take us to the cool mountains in the summer. How inconvenient it would be to have to drive to idyllwild or BB to hike at lower elevations. Even with the screaming tourists going over the towers & listening to Ottmar Liebert at full volume I soon forget all that as I hike the trails at 10,000 feet.
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Postby Florian » Sun Jul 18, 2010 6:58 am

I've sort of come to enjoy the whole tramway experience. Including the screaming tourists as we go over the towers. I need to figure out a way to get the floor rotation to always stop when i'm aligned with a door however.

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Postby Hikin_Jim » Mon Jul 19, 2010 1:45 pm

Florian wrote:I've sort of come to enjoy the whole tramway experience. Including the screaming tourists as we go over the towers. I need to figure out a way to get the floor rotation to always stop when i'm aligned with a door however.

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Florian, my observation is that the floor of the tram does about two full rotations on the way up. In other words, if (at the bottom) you stand by the door that you want to exit out of when you get to the top, the tram floor's rotation should bring you right to your exit exit door. Try it some time and let me know how it goes.

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Postby Florian » Mon Jul 19, 2010 2:53 pm

Hikin_Jim wrote:Florian, my observation is that the floor of the tram does about two full rotations on the way up.

I always try to be the last person on the car so i'm always standing at the door when the car departs. About half the time i'm back at a door when the rotation stops.

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Postby bluerail » Mon Jul 19, 2010 7:07 pm

I know both of you and you guys spend plenty time on the trail. But you mean to tell me your too impatient to let people get out of the tram car ? You guys are weird.
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Postby Florian » Mon Jul 19, 2010 7:32 pm

I just want to get ahead of the shuttle bus going down. I pass cars like a bat out of hell but you're not suppose to pass the bus.

Driving down yesterday afternoon there was a police car parked at the old gate below the lots. Speed trap maybe?

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Postby neverwashasbeen » Mon Jul 19, 2010 10:23 pm

Florian, in my experience the car rotates two and one quarter times on average. I've seen anywhere from two to two and a half.
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Postby Hikin_Jim » Mon Jul 19, 2010 10:27 pm

bluerail wrote:I know both of you and you guys spend plenty time on the trail. But you mean to tell me your too impatient to let people get out of the tram car ? You guys are weird.
I just want to make sure I'm ahead of you, Steve, especially if you've been eating those darn bean burritos again.
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