- Owing $3.8 million to creditors, Deer Mountain, SD to be sold to the highest bidder in a sheriff’s sale today. The mountain has two Riblet chairlifts.
- Curbed counts down 11 gondolas changing the way people move through cities.
- Steamboat sells off triple chairs from Four Points in 28 minutes (the lift got new Doppelmayr ones in 2012.)
- Taos offloads 200 chairs from lifts 5 and 6 for $200 each with proceeds going to hurricane relief. As of this writing, 37 remain.
- Leitner Ropeways’ new gondola at the world’s largest hotel transported 3.5 million passengers in its first eight months.
- Aspen Mountain installs Bluetooth speakers in Silver Queen Gondola cabins.
- China Peak completes its first quad chair, the old Elkhead from Steamboat.
- The Burnaby Mountain Gondola is back on the table.
- Leitner-Poma of America inks contract to build a US$7.1 million high-speed quad at Falls Creek in Australia.
- Vail Resorts launches interactive website with lift downtime and wait time data for last season at Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, Keystone and Park City.
- Belleayre’s gondola cabins arrive from across the pond. Unfortunately, the name of the lift is spelled wrong on all of them.
- Ski Magazine predicts the KSL-Aspen duo will benefit skiers with a second Epic-style season pass and major resort upgrades.
- Skytrac and Timberline Helicopters fly towers for the new East Rim lift at Whitefish. Thanks Buzz D. for these cool photos.
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wont that Bluetooth speakers controlled by passengers be obnoxious? what if everyone keeps switching the song? or a teenager plays profane music when their are kids in the cabin? Seems like a risky move but i could be wrong.
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I’m assuming there’s probably one speaker per cabin.
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The winning bidder at the one minute sheriff’s sale of Deer Mountain was an LLC called Milan Investment Club, offering $1 more than the opening bid. The current ownership group still gets one year to pay up before losing the property. Sad situation but at least there was a bidder.
http://rapidcityjournal.com/news/local/communities/lead-deadwood/milan-buys-mystic-mountain-for-more-than-it-s-owed/article_0b8d42fa-6903-5451-a8c9-9392b2d51ae3.html
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The epic time map is fascinating.
Dec 10, a Saturday and a day after a 9″ snow at Keystone, when the back didn’t have the base to open, Montezuma had an extended period of 25 to 30+ minute lift lines! Wow. 6-pack won’t help *that* much.
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