- Suit filed against Ski Liberty by family of boy who dangled from a chair for seven minutes after mis-loading.
- Mi Teleférico’s four gondola lines transported 194,971 passengers last Wednesday, an impressive single day record.
- Squaw|Alpine now wants an extension of permit for replacing Hot Wheels.
- Doppelmayr remembers past CEO Artur Doppelmayr, who died May 12th.
- Apparently the Utah Olympic Park is adding two new chairlifts this summer, although I am still trying to confirm.
- Steamboat’s gondola rebuild is taking longer than expected and reopening has been pushed back two weeks to July 15th.
- Vail Resorts will re-use chairs and towers from Keystone’s Montezuma Express in building the new Red Buffalo Express at Beaver Creek.
- Saddleback Mountain Foundation needs $11.2 million to purchase Maine’s third largest ski area, including $3.2 million to replace the Rangeley lift with a fixed-grip quad. So far, the group has only raised a fraction of that amount.
- Sunday River’s new Spruce Peak triple will be a Doppelmayr Tristar, Boyne Resorts’ fourth.
- Schweitzer works toward $6-8 million Snow Ghost replacement.
- “It is not rocket science about lift geometry,” Aspen Council member says in frustration re: Lift 1A. “There is enough expertise in this community to know where a lift goes.”
- Mont Ripley offers $1,000 for information leading to the arrest of arsonist(s) who damaged lift.
- Longtime Whistler Blackcomb COO and Peak 2 Peak visionary Dave Brownlie is leaving to pursue new opportunities just seven months into Vail ownership.
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A late addition:
Unofficial Networks featured a video of Park City lift mechanics dropping an assembly off the Short Cut lift in dramatic fashion. The video has since been removed. While the sheaves are obviously being scrapped, it’s a good reminder that social media posts can get shared for the world to see.
http://unofficialnetworks.com/2017/05/24/watch-park-city-mountain-chairlift-assembly-sent-crashing-to-the-ground-during-maintenance/
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Didn’t that lift used to be named “LOOK OUT ! “
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Reminds me of when that youtube video surfaced for a little while of one of the lifts at Vail being scrapped at the beginning of the process of removing chairs from the line. Some of the lifties/techs were enjoying smashing things.
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“Vail Lift Destroyers.” I’ll never forget it.
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GRRRRRRR That video really got to me. Do you remember what lift that was? I think it was a Riblet double or triple based upon the method they were using to remove the carriers from the rope. That lift looked in excellent shape, I really wish it could have found a home somewhere else.
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Highline #10, a 1973 Riblet.
https://liftblog.com/highline-10-vail-co/
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YES that’s the one! Lift 10. Such a beautiful lift.
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Is there a video of it?
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Isn’t that riblet lift a really common type of old lift?
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Bridger Bowl- Snowflake lift- Do you know anything about it’s removal? Is it being replaced? Motor is for sale on skilifts.org
http://www.skilifts.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=10862&pid=115344&st=0&#entry115344
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It’s moving to a new location in the near future, just slightly south of the current location, to create a new first time area. Perhaps that’s happening sooner rather than later.
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Snowflake is bing reinstalled this summer I think with a new AC motor and drive.
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Why is Vail only reusing the chairs and the towers from Montezuma but not the terminals as well, it seems like a waste to me? Also why does it seem like all the big ski management company’s are leaning toward Leitner Poma for their lifts (personally I don’t like their lifts to much, I just find them quite boring. I think Doppelmayer lifts have more charm)
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Utah Olympic Park has pushed back new lift(s) to next summer at the earliest.
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