- $150 million Raymond James settlement includes $762,503 for Burke Mountain’s new Leitner-Poma T-Bar.
- Power outage leads to rope evacuation of Loveland’s newest lift.
- Steamboat gondola refurbishing begins (I got to tour Northstar’s gondola this week which received a similar upgrade in 2015.)
- Orlando Sentinel confirms Walt Disney World is building three Doppelmayr 10-passenger gondolas with six stations.
- Crystal Mountain breaks away from Boyne Resorts, orders five additional gondola cabins and plans to build new Discovery and Gold Hills lifts in 2018.
- Eldora is selling Hall and Heron chairs as six-pack construction begins.
- Preview Oakland’s new $13 million restaurant accessible only by gondola.
- Sunday River’s new owner commits to replacing Spruce Peak.
- This week’s cities floating gondolas include Edmonton and Burlington, Vermont.
- Fatzer delivers four 153-ton track ropes to Germany’s Zugspitze using two trucks linked together for the entire journey.
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Peter if you want photos of the Oakland zoo gondola base station I can give some to you.
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email them
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Sure, thanks. Peter@liftblog.com
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Has it been confirmed that the new lifts at Crystal Mountain are going to be quads?
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Just speculation on my part. Twin Skytrac quads would make sense. But it’s Crystal so you never know.
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That would be cool. Considering how few people go on Gold Hills, I wouldn’t be surprised to see them stick with a triple. Too bad Skytrac can’t use the much better looking Garaventa chairs instead of their ugly Garaventa lookalikes.
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Wondering what happened at Loveland, guessing either the lift did not have a evac drive or it had issues..
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Rope evac is always plan C or D. Not plan B.
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“Fake News” has infiltrated the ski industry
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how so?
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Lifts don’t get rope evaced due to a power outage
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When you went to Mammoth did you notice that the Schoolyard Express appears to have six pack terminals even though its a quad? Any idea why?
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I did notice. The only thing I can think of is they needed more room for the height adjusting equipment.
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I’ve seen a few high speed quad with six-pack terminals and I think it’s possibly designed that way for growth.
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Peruvian and Little Cloud at Snowbird have six pack terminals even though they are quads, and I think it is because the six pack line gauge is better on windy days. Not entirely sure though
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Peter, off-topic question. What’s the difference between and UNI-G and a UNI-G-M terminal? I noticed this designation on one of your pictures of Cloudchaser at Mt. Bachelor.
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The last letter is the length of the terminal – small, medium or large. M=medium.
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Ah okay. Thank you for enhancing my understanding!
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