Ski gondola t-shirt: a red cabin hangs from its cable in front of snowy peaks, with fir trees in the snow below. Optional: the mountain station with a red roof and a lattice tower on the back, fir branches with cones on the sleeves.
Product description
The price includes the front print. Add the back and sleeves above under “Print”.
Ski gondola t-shirt for everyone whose favorite moment of a ski day comes before the first turn: the ride up. On the chest a red cabin hangs from the cable, snowy peaks rise behind it, and dark fir trees, some heavy with snow, stand at the lower left. There is no lettering, no place name and no logo; the picture tells its story on its own, like an old poster in the hall of a valley station.
The cabin is the heart of the design. Its body is a strong red with rounded corners, and white trim lines run around it below the windows. The windows have wide white frames: three on the narrow end to the left, and a further row of panes along the long side, one of them split in two. Behind the glass you can make out the dark outlines of passengers and bright reflections. Below the windows the long side shows a large outlined panel, and the floor sits in shadow. A sturdy blue-gray hanger arm, narrowing toward the top, rises from the roof to a carriage with round wheels that grips the cable. The cable itself crosses the whole picture at a slant, from the top left corner to the right edge, so the cabin looks as if it were on its way up to the summit station.
Two peaks rise behind and below the cabin. The larger one stands on the left, tall and pointed, the smaller one to its right. Both carry heavy snow, with rock faces in bold blue. The snow lies in broad patches with jagged edges, its shadows in ice blue and cobalt. In front of the big peak stand four fir trees in dark green: two tall ones with thick cushions of snow on their branches and, to their right, two smaller ones with almost no snow at all. Snowy boulders gather around their base. The palette is small: the red of the cabin, the white of the snow, many shades of blue and the green of the firs. The shapes have clean edges with a painterly texture left in the snow, which gives the whole scene the feel of a vintage travel poster from the mountains.
If you add the back, it shows where the ride ends: the mountain station on the summit. A gray stone building with a red hipped roof, patched with snow, sits right at the top of a steep rocky crag. A small turret with windows and its own red roof rises from the middle of the roof, topped with a slender spire. On the left a long band of windows runs across the wall; on the right a glazed gallery on steel struts juts out over the rock. Right next to it stands a steel lattice tower with a platform and railing, and the cables run over it and out of the picture toward the upper right. Below, the mountain falls away in blue and gray ribs of rock and wide snowfields. For the sleeves you can add a snowy fir branch on each side, with two brown cones hanging from it, each wearing a little cap of snow; the two branches mirror each other.
Who wears this ski gondola t-shirt? The skier who is always first in line at the valley station when the lifts open. The lift operator who keeps the cabins running every day. The hiker who rides up in summer for the view from the top, and anyone who once pressed their nose against the window of a cable car as a child. Give it to a skier for Christmas or a birthday, pack it as a treat before the next trip to the snow, or keep it as a souvenir once the week in the mountains is over. Wear it on the road to the mountains, for the evening in the lodge, on an ordinary day in town or on the office afternoon when your mind is already on fresh snow.
The fabric is cotton; heathered shades are blends in which polyester ranges from a small share to half, depending on the color. Digital printing begins once your order is in. The cabin and peaks always sit on the chest, large and centered, as an upright picture that starts a little below the collar. The summit station appears only if the order includes the back, the snowy branches only if it includes the sleeves. On dark fabric the snow and the red stand out most; on light shirts the blues and the fir green carry the design.
