- The world’s largest vertical tramway is expected to reopen in time for Christmas, just three months after one of its cabins was destroyed in an unfortunate accident.
- Peak Resorts completes its acquisition of Liberty Mountain, Roundtop and Whitetail in Pennsylvania.
- There was a bit of a setback before American Eagle’s load test on Monday but repairs are complete and the first of two new lifts at Copper opens Saturday.
- A pulse gondola could join the skyline in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania.
- Investors who helped the Hermitage Club buy its bubble lift file a lawsuit seeking $9.8 million.
- Did you know the Lone Peak Tram‘s bottom terminal is slowly moving downhill thanks to a rock glacier?
- The White River National Forest grants final approval for Beaver Creek’s McCoy Park expansion and preliminary approval of Aspen Mountain’s Pandora project.
- Plans for a new Oakland Athletics ballpark include a 6,000 passenger per hour gondola across Interstate 880.
- A proposed Portland Major League Baseball stadium also has a gondola component.
- As Utah weighs growth, Alta seeks to retain some of the land it owns in Grizzly Gulch, key to any future connection between the Cottonwood Canyons.
- Heavy snow delays completion of Ascutney Mountain’s T-Bar until next spring.
- Arapahoe Basin drops the ropes on 339 new lift-served acres.
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Bad luck for American Eagle. I predict it will be a jinxed lift causing many issues in its lifetime.
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Incident, not luck. Stop with the negative waves!
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Anyone else just see steamboat’s Instagram story?
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I did!
Could mean new cabins on the current gondola and/or the new Bashor Gondola. Hopefully the first of many announcements from Alterra over the next few months.
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Hopefully its the bashor gondola.
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American Eagle will not open this weekend after all.
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https://www.summitdaily.com/news/sports/copper-mountain-resort-wont-open-new-american-eagle-lift-this-weekend/
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