- The Adirondack Park Agency approves construction of a new chairlift at the Lake Placid Olympic ski jumping facility.
- Ascutney seeks permission to build a 1,760′ T-Bar with 11 towers.
- As Oz Real Estate weighs investing more than $50 million, the Hermitage Club receiver reports the resort’s lifts need $86,000 in maintenance that neither the bank nor members have agreed to fund.
- Mountain Capital Partners hosts a packed public meeting regarding its Nordic Valley expansion. “I’ve never had a project not be successful and I’m not going to start with this one,” James Coleman tells the crowd.
- Days before the deadline for public comments, Sunshine Village CEO Ralph Scurfield pens an op-ed criticizing Parks Canada’s proposed site guidelines that would eliminate three future lifts from consideration.
- Leitner-Poma looks to immediately hire installation team members for the big Winter Park gondola project.
- Thanks to Rob and Max for these awesome shots of the Whistler Blackcomb megaproject.
- Some Alta land is withdrawn from a proposed land swap, maintaining the possibility of future expansion in Grizzly Gulch.
- Killington goes blue with its bubbles.
- Vail Resorts officially takes over Stevens Pass.
- Massachusetts awards the current operators of Blue Hills a new three year contract.
- Fatzer begins production of the first Compacta rope for the US lift market. At 54 mm, any guesses where it’s headed?
- The Jackson/Teton County Parks & Recreation Board unanimously says no to a Snow King Gondola alignment as the Forest Service extends public comment until September 13th.
- The Capital Gondola project moves along in Albany.
- Anyone can rent the six lifts at Pico Mountain for $6,500 on Tuesdays or Wednesdays this winter.
- The Jay Peak receiver plans to sell the resort by next summer while an offering of Burke Mountain is indefinitely on hold.
- Copper Mountain appears to abandon dark green lifts for more sophisticated copper-colored terminals.
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Any idea who built the old lift at the Lake Placid ski jump?
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It’s a 1987 Poma double. Maybe ORDA will bundle the new lift into an RFP for new lifts at Gore and/or Whiteface.
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Its gotta be big sky or whistler blackomb, they have the only projects big enough and Disney’s ropes have to have started before now.
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Big Sky it is.
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If you look more closely at the Copper Mountain rendering, the skirts appear to have texture so maybe they went with the full wood option?
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Looks like copper stained wood to me with black Diamond cabins and blue bubble chairs.
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You are correct. We’re going with wood. I heard it’ll be stained dark brown, similar to the lift shacks on H and K and the grip building on H.
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Rob at WB says the Blackcomb Gondola barn will be 21,000 square feet and able to hold all 185 cabins. Impressive!
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To clarify, the Pico midweek rental only includes the two high speed quads.
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