- A live streaming webcam shows New Hampshire’s largest and fastest gondola going in at Bretton Woods. Some tidbits on the lift from the New Hampshire Tramway Board: line speed will be 6 m/s with 36 cabins and a design capacity of 2,600 using 62 cabins. SkyTrans is taking the retired B double and the gondola’s load test is slated for December 20th.
- Sunrise Park Resort abruptly ends all summer operations.
- In Europe, some pulse gondolas are on the way out.
- As it works to finalize its lease of Mt. Sunapee, Vail Resorts assures New Hampshire residents the company is in for the long haul and doesn’t plan any real estate development at the state-owned mountain.
- A stack up of at least nine cabins on the White urban gondola line in La Paz last Monday is deemed the result of human error. No passengers were on the lift at the time.
- Loveland receives more than 3,000 name suggestions for its upcoming detachable quad and will unveil a winner early next week.
- One of the longest gondolas in Mexico, opened seven months ago in Torreon, has already carried more than 325,000 passengers and will soon get nine additional cabins from Sigma.
- Go inside Poma’s newest French factory.
- Arapahoe Basin and Leitner-Poma commence pouring concrete and digging tower locations for the Beavers lift.
- As Winter Park continues testing digital chairlift advertising, sister resort Steamboat goes old school with bar mounted trail map ads.
- The widow of Loveland mechanic Adam Lee, who died underneath a carpet lift last winter, goes on CBS This Morning to talk about his workers compensation claim being reduced due to a positive marijuana test.
- Magic Mountain submits a permit application/profile for the Black Line Quad and hopes to commence construction next month.
- Copper’s all-new trail map is amazing…
Another fantastic trail map from James Niehues. He does Fantastic work!
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Always good to see Franz at work
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Good to see Bretton Woods went with the higher line speed and the option to increase capacity. I think we need to be seeing way more 1100 and 1200 feet per minute lifts than we are now, and not just designed for it but actually running at that speed.
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Sounds like the La Paz incident happened after two stages were split apart for maintenance purposes. Tire banks were raised to move cabins around but one section of tires wasn’t put back down. Later the lift was started with the station unmanned and anticollision inactive. Cabins stacked up until one hit a switch by the trumpet. Minor damage to the 16 cabins involved will be repaired by Doppelmayr and there was no damage to the rope. A bunch of procedures have been changed. The incident report is in Spanish but that is my interpretation.
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What’s a “drag lift?” Mentioned in an article Lift Blog linked to.
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Which article are you referring to? There are a bunch!
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I think you mean a surface quad lift. There are youtube videos. it basically a large bar and you hold on to it and let go at the top. Its like top 10 unique ski lifts.
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