- Sugarloaf shuts down 2nd Borvig quad lift.
- Sugar Mountain, NC to build a base-to-summit Doppelmayr six-pack.
- Leitner-Poma might have to pay $222k back to the State of Colorado. This summer doesn’t look to be too busy for them either.
- Vail Resorts goes to Australia.
- Lift operator sued after boy hanged from backpack tangled in a chair.
- The State of Pennsylvania is “not normally in the business of ski-lift construction.”
- Another child falls from a chair, this time in eastern Canada. Seems like there have been a lot of similar incidents this winter particularly with children.
Year: 2015
Summer 2015 New Lifts – Early Trends
Resorts are starting to close and construction season is upon us. Many new lift projects have already been announced. You can see the full list here. After last year’s “win” by Leitner-Poma, Doppelmayr will return to dominate with at least 14 projects. Remarkably almost all of them will be detachables – more on that later. So far the only other confirmed projects are a Leitner-Poma detachable at Powderhorn, CO and 2 Leitner urban gondolas in Mexico City. (Apparently these are being built by Leitner in Italy, not by Leitner-Poma in Grand Junction.)
2015 also will be the first year since 2011 that more detachable lifts are built than fixed-grip lifts. So far only 3 fixed grips have been announced.
New Blog about Lifts
There is no shortage of interest and information about ski lifts on the internet.
Skilifts.org, chairlift.org, lift-world.info and remontees-mecaniques.net are some of the best sites. But as far as I know, no one has attempted to create a frequently updated blog about what’s going on in the lift world.
I am going to try. My name is Peter Landsman and I work in the lift operations department at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort. But long before I started working in the industry, I was a skier and lift nut. Over the last 15 years I created a database with statistics and pictures of every ski lift in North America.
My plan is to write longer form posts that fit more logically on a blog than a forum. Please add your comments, contact me with ideas, or write a guest post and let’s see where this goes.
Lift Blog 