- A movement is afoot to turn Saddleback into a Mad River Glen-style cooperative.
- Red Mountain seeks to raise $5-10 million through crowdfunding.
- Leitner Ropeways launches interactive map of installations since 1996.
- With the haul rope being pulled, Mi Teleférico anticipates an early 2017 opening of the Blue Line in La Paz with 5 stations, 38 towers and 208 gondola cabins.
- Killington renews permit for the Pico interconnect to include four chairlifts and 110 acres of new terrain.
- BMF wins a contract for an 8-passenger gondola and six-pack at a new venue for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. The company is currently building 5 lifts in Switzerland along with ones in Val Thorens and Moscow.
- New York University gets behind the East River Skyway as a solution to the looming L-Train subway closure in NYC.
- Public gets a sneak peak inside the Banff Gondola’s new $26 million top station.
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Any news or new info from Bogus Basin ? Amazing how you have news about Gondolas in South America but an accident in Idaho is somehow kept a secret ?
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The last media article I saw said both mechanics were in stable condition with OSHA investigating. http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/article93150717.html
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Copy that. I’m going to try contacting OSHA spokesman Dave Kearns to get some information. There are lots of people who make a living working on ski lifts and we should be aware of all accidents including details. Knowledge is the best form of safety !
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“I heard” the work basket was older one, that originally used the short shank riblet clip. So when you put the work cart on a long shank clip, a spacer was needed to ‘fill’ out the clip shank and give the cart the extra clearance needed to clear the cable catchers. Apparently the spacer may have been placed on cotter pin side of things ( placing the work cart hanger in danger of snagging on a tower).
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