- Apparently Doppelmayr has redesigned their controls for 2015. A new pedestal pictured above looks like an improvement, especially the speed selector replacing slow/medium/fast buttons.
- Willard Mountain, NY files for bankruptcy, proving once again it is best to control all of the land your ski resort sits on. The area has a Borvig and Partek doubles.
- Saddleback Maine has put the drive terminal for its main lift up for sale on Resort Boneyard for $200k. Hopefully a new lift is on the way.
- Vail Resorts voluntarily raises the minimum wage it pays lift operators and other workers to $10 an hour.
- Lots of improvements coming to Powderhorn in addition to their first detachable lift.
- Whistler-Blackcomb to test snowmaking as a means to preserve summer skiing on Horstman Glacier, home to the only glacier-anchored lifts in North America.
- West Mountain, NY is moving forward with making one old lift into two new ones.
- Singapore opens its second Doppelmayr gondola line with three stations and 8-passenger cabins.
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Saddleback is looking at fixed grip quads to replace the Rangeley lift.
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Thanks for the intel. I suspect nothing will happen this summer.
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