Vail Resorts announced today it will spend $13 million this summer to modernize Wilmot Mountain, which the company acquired in January. Improvements include three new quad chairs to replace existing lifts. Wilmot Mountain currently operates eight chairlifts built by Hall, Borvig and Riblet between 1964 and 1978, meaning upgrades are long overdue. Four chairlifts will be removed, three added and three others overhauled. The three new quads along with two new carpets will increase Wilmot’s uphill capacity by 45 percent.
“We think our guests from Chicago and Milwaukee will be thrilled with the improvements we are making at Wilmot for the 2016-2017 ski season, which represents one of the biggest transformations ever undertaken for a Midwestern ski area,” said Rob Katz, Chairman and CEO of Vail Resorts. No manufacturer was named, but Vail chose Doppelmayr in 2013 to provide Eco-drive quads as part of a $10 million redevelopment at Mt. Brighton near Detroit. For those lifts, they re-used quad chairs and towers from retired Doppelmayr lifts at Vail and Beaver Creek.
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http://www.newenglandskiindustry.com/viewstory.php?storyid=394
this may already be news to you
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Off topic, but regardless I don’t buy the vandalism theory. I’ll be interested to see the state’s investigation when it comes out.
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Looks like they will be Eco-drive quads (with some recycled parts from Beaver Creek). These will replace chair 3, 8 & 6. Chair 3 will have a different alignment (start point halfway between current chair 2&3). The alignments for 8 & 6 look to be the same. Chair 2 will be removed.
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Thanks for the info. I’m not surprised the center-pole quad is going away.
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Off topic but will you be following the construction of the new lifts at big sky this summer?
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Peter,
Hope you had a great vacation.
LIfts will be named/numbered 2,3 & 6. Lift 3 has the same alignment as the previous lift 8. Lift 6 has similar alignment to the previous chair 6. Chair 2 will replace the previous chair 3 and has alignment that loads 100-150′ further to the south. (It can be seen fairly well on Google earth).
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