- A wild wind video from South America makes the internet rounds. Anyone know why are there double and quad chairs on the same lift?
- A founding partner of the hugely successful Sea to Sky Gondola looks at building a similar lift along the Trans-Canada Highway near Chilliwack, BC.
- 9News checks in on Winter Park’s major gondola upgrade.
- Mexicable’s second gondola line could be a $105 million monster: 5.2 miles long with six stations carrying an estimated 35,000 riders each day.
- I usually write about lifts and not myself but Skytrac recently interviewed me.
- A BC court will hear the case of a skier injured when a Mueller lift de-roped four years ago. Crystal Mountain never reopened following the incident, which was blamed on multiple factors.
- A local photographer is posting weekly pictures of Killington’s three simultaneous lift installations.
- Fatzer releases more details on the US debut of Compacta at Big Sky.
- The Balsams withdraws its application for a $28 million state loan guarantee, effectively shelving redevelopment for now.
- LST’s American lift number two looks sharp at Waterville Valley.
- Another Blackcomb Gondola update courtesy of Rob at WB shows how giant UNI-G XXLs are.
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I’m curious to see what Whistler does for the Emerald stations. It’s also interesting they chose more gray elements on the gondola station rather than what they did for Harmony 6, which used a lot of white.
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Should be the same as Harmony, but I think with a green stripe. Haven’t seen the cladding out of the packaging yet. Harmony is a light grey.
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And Harmony is beautiful!
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From what I saw I’m guessing Emerald’s terminals will be light grey with a green stripe and outer trim around the terminal- though I could be wrong. We’ll find out soon!
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https://www.remontees-mecaniques.net/bdd/reportage-tsf4-2b-lynch-garaventa-1209.html
Here is the report for the weird Double/Quad at Catedral. They have a midstation that loads pedestrians who only ride on the double chairs. Pretty interesting setup!
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Powder mountain was evacuated because of a wildfire nearby. It was a precaution and isn’t threatening the resort. The fire started by the Avon shooting range.
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More details and a public comment link for the Bridal Falls Gondola project:
https://arfd.gov.bc.ca/ApplicationPosting/viewpost.jsp?PostID=55831
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What happened to the skilifts.org website?
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It’s still there.
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Yeah but nobody has seemed to update it in like 7 years. Is it still updated?
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Still there and I have a forum account, but Peter’s site is way better. In fact someone posted on the forum that people are actually giving up on the forum to follow Lift Blog. They have not updated anything for a decade, so it’s really not a surprise they’re losing so many visitors.
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Erik wanted to have the site be more focused around lift maintenance than general ski lift and industry topics so the site has been somewhat abandoned. I helped build a lot of it, but it’s basically a time capsule now as I no longer have site access.
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the wild wind might be in Cerro Catedral in Argentina.
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