- Mt. Hood Meadows, Skytrac and Timberline Helicopters fly Buttercup towers in just 45 minutes.
- Vail Resorts schedules annual meeting for Wednesday, December 6th, where multiple new lift projects are likely to be revealed.
- Aspen Skiing Company, the City of Aspen, private landowners and the public collaborate towards building a long-sought detachable Lift 1.
- Latest LST detach update: chairs are back at the factory being reworked and the Envers lift is expected to be up and running around Christmas.
- Revelstoke adds 24 new gondola cabins, Crystal Mountain gets five more.
- Navajo Nation leadership soundly rejects Grand Canyon Escalade gondola in 16-2 vote.
- SkiCo and the Aspen Valley Ski & Snowboard Club plan to build a platter surface lift on the skier’s right side of Golden Horn at Aspen Highlands next summer.
- There’s an unconfirmed rumor that the Cyclone at Sunrise Park, AZ won’t operate this winter. The 1983 Yan is North America’s longest triple chair at 7,982′ with 32 towers and 352 chairs. I’ve reached out to Sunrise for comment and will update if I hear anything.
- Montana Snowbowl’s TV Mountain expansion won’t open this season.
- After building three new lifts in a row, the Hermitage Club finds itself in a cash flow crunch.
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I’ll take ‘projects that won’d die’ for $500 million, Peter.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/indigenous-rights-ski-resort-1.4381902
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Interesting that Yan has built at least two very long fixed grip triples back to back. The old Northeast Passage, an ’82 Yan, at Killington was over 9,000 feet!
http://www.newenglandskihistory.com/skiareaexpansions/Vermont/killington/sunrise.php
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45 minutes, considering they only had 5 towers to set. Don’t know what’s up with the camera, but if you flip it 180, it looks like the haul rope is on. https://www.skihood.com/cams/vista
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Sounds like the Golden Hornets Poma is being restored at Aspen Highlands, now all we need is for the Grand Prix poma to be restored also. I have missed that lift since the day it was removed.
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