- Belleayre’s new gondola may not have much vertical but will be more than 6,700 feet long.
- New photo tours of the upcoming Orange and White lines in La Paz show how gondolas can be adapted to the urban landscape with innovative station designs.
- Urban gondolas were profiled prominently in Sunday’s New York Times.
- Skytrac will finish the Stagecoach lift at Big Sky this fall, a project which Moonlight Basin began in 2008. In addition, Challenger and the Tram are getting new haul ropes and Powder Seeker a chair storage facility. Thanks William Bryan for the photos.
- At Spanish Peaks, the Flatiron lift will be next to go in.
- BMF drops one of the Brest Cable Car’s cabins from a crane while performing annual maintenance. One-cabin operation will continue while Gangloff builds a new one over the next six to nine months.
- Taos releases renderings of its re-imagined learning center featuring new Leitner-Poma and Skytrac lifts.
- Thank you Michael Weise for these sweet photos of Eldora’s six-pack progress:
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New haul rope for Challenger? Did the use an old one when they put in the new lift last year?
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The story I heard is something along the lines of the original rope being cut too short and Doppelmayr providing a used rope until a new one could be manufactured and installed.
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Doppelmayr cut the rope too short, brand new rope with two splices which is silly on a new lift, fortunately the rope will be long enough for the tram so that rope is going up there and hopefully the goddamn install crew can cut the new Challenger rope the right length this time.
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Actually scratch that, it could be a “used” rope on there, regardless, brand new lift should have the rope it was intended to and since it was a doppelmayr screw up, they are fixing it for us. And it works out perfectly because now the tram gets a basically brand new rope and will only have one splice now instead of two. New rescue rope on the tram as well this fall.
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Daphne certainly doesn’t pull any punches in her assessment of the Challenger rope situation!
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Frustrating situation for all of us up here, just glad that its all working out for the best.
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Don’t understand your frustration.
There was a problem…they resolved it so you could operate for the season..and now they are replacing the rope.
Do you work at the Resort?
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Frustrating for them because they (resort employees) have to do a lot of extra work as a result of the screw up, perhaps.
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Do you work for a manufacturer?
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Not any more…
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Curious about the chair storage for the Powderseeker lift – are the small number of chairs not in use taking a beating from the weather? Last year it looked like they had only 2 or 4 extras . . . or can they put them all “inside” for the night?
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Plan all along was to build a barn for chairs to be stored in at night or at least during storms and in the summer.
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And where does Stagecoach lift drop? Is it just a residential lift or will it go further up hill and be accessible at bottom to more skiers?
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Oh jeez, looked like I asked this question last year too!
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This picture shows it pretty well. Not all towers are in but the line is cleared up to the unload.
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I usually read all your articles but I missed the one with my pictures! Thanks for the shout out.
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