- NPR devotes almost six minutes of airtime to Mexico City’s innovative new gondola.
- Ski Areas of New York members to host six free lift maintenance trainings this summer across the state.
- Jay Peak made $9 million this year, Burke Mountain lost almost $2 million and $4.9 million in tram upgrades are underway with completion scheduled for next month. Follow along with Moving Parts|A Tram Story.
- Unfortunate winch cable accident sends Peruvian chair to the ground at Snowbird.
- Friends of Squaw Mountain, Maine get ~$2.4 million quote from Skytrac to replace a base-to-summit Stadeli double, which has not operated since 2004.
- Follow this thread for sweet construction photos from the world’s largest urban gondola network.
- Crews load test the new Gatlinburg Sky Lift. Cool to see non-galvanized EJ chairs with wood slats! Anakeesta’s lift is not far behind.
- Noting plans to “definitively enter the US market,” LST Ropeways is hiring a design engineer.
- New York State Fair gondola may not happen.
- Blacktail Mountain is for sale for $3.5 million.
- Brian Jorgenson tells Skytrac why lift installation is his favorite kind of flying.
- Here are the full specs for Leitner’s new station and Sigma’s new Diamond Evo cabin.
- Apex Mountain Resort sells to new ownership group eyeing capital investments.
- New D-Line six-pack in Ischgl will cost a whopping $13.1 million.
- Leitner Ropeways publishes 2016 Annual Report (Leitner-Poma of America installations are featured in a separate Poma Reference Book.)
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What would cause the D line six pack to be so expensive?
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D-Line is more expensive to begin with plus the lift will be 5,200′ long, presumably with bubbles and heated seats.
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I think that cost includes the terminal buildings, and avalanche mitigation. The cost of the lift itself will only be a portion of the total.
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Here is a link with more information and renderings of the new D-Line Palinkopf at Ischgl
http://www.ischgl.com/en/more/cable-car-company/new-2017-2018
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Found a couple pictures of the Snowbird incident. Peruvian is back open this weekend.
http://forum.pugski.com/threads/snowbird-2016-2017-the-revenge-of-ullr.3395/page-4#post-109497
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