https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_I64lxkCTQ&feature=youtu.be
- Packsaddle II at Keystone gets the first Skytrac tension-return station based on the Monarch terminal.
- Searchmont’s 1989 Doppelmayr quad chair will spin this season for the first time in six years. The mountain’s nonprofit owner could not afford to address two service bulletins until now.
- See how urban gondolas are evacuated if the need arises.
- Paris’ first urban gondola will be bigger than London’s.
- With orders from Sandia Peak, the Oakland Zoo and Jackson Hole, CWA has now supplied 2,000 cabins in the United States.
- Fernie flies a winter’s worth of diesel fuel – 5,300 gallons – to the Polar Peak triple by helicopter.
- See tons more photos of LST’s first detachable here.
- 42,584 passengers ride Mexicable in its first two days of operation.
- The Navajo Nation Law and Order Committee votes 5-0 to oppose the Grand Canyon Escalade.
- NewEnglandSkiIndustry.com has the latest on all four of New England’s new lifts.
- The new Doppelmayr DCD Chair will debut in Hochzillertal on one of five D-Line installations to be operating in Austria by the end of the year.
- Winch cables and chairs apparently don’t mix well.
- Doppelmayr posts a video tour of the proposed Wälderbahn next-generation 3S with sections of elevated guideways in place of cables.
- Montana Snowbowl throws in the towel on TV Mountain until next spring.
- Echo Mountain sale closes and the mountain will open in December.
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Speaking of Montana weather, will the snow at Big Sky hinder completion of the Bowl 6 pack (er, Powder Seeker) and Challenger lifts?
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It sucks for the workers building but they will get the job done. The webcam shows the top station has a roof on it at least. The operator house not so much.
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I wonder what the factors are to use diesel as a primary for a lift. It seems like it would be much more cost efficient to run power lines initially vs. transporting diesel fuel by helicopter every year. How remote is polar peak?
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Polar Peak is very remote with no other lifts in the same drainage. Plus Fernie has some crazy avalanche paths. Lost Trail in MT/ID does something similar with generator sheds adjacent to each lift. At least theirs can be refilled by truck in the summer though.
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where does the accident with the winch cable had happen?
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