- The weather mostly cooperates with Waterville Valley’s ambitious late-fall expansion.
- Suicide Six is also building this November.
- Jay Peak misses tax payment ahead of winter season. So does Burke Mountain.
- Urban gondola ideas emerge in Branson, MO, Greenville, SC, Montreal and San Antonio.
- Another Bolivian city – Sucre – to get cable car network.
- Zacatecas, Mexico stops work on its new gondola, much of which Leitner has already delivered, due to environmental and cultural concerns.
- BC Safety Authority reminds skiers that rider (mis)behavior causes most lift accidents.
- Telluride wants to replace lifts 7, 9, 10 and 14.
- Saddleback Mountain Foundation raises $750,000 towards the purchase of Maine’s second largest ski area which closed in 2015. The group plans to replace the Rangeley double and Cupsuptic T-Bar with new lifts and eventually expand with a new Magalloway lift.
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Is Gold Hill Express underutilized? It was one of the most recent HSQs installed at Telluride.
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I was surprised by that one as well. The only thing I could think is they want to make it a six-pack.
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Reading other articles, it may be an additional lift on the face of Palmyra Peak rather than a replacement for the existing quad. Telski says the full plan will be online later this week so we’ll know more then.
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Yeah, having skied Gold Hill a lot, I have no idea why they would upgrade it. The only place I could see Telluride needing a six-pack in would be village (and maybe coonskin), definitely not gold hill. I agree it probably is another lift.
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