- Arapahoe Basin ends its Epic Pass partnership with Vail Resorts due to concerns about parking and crowding.
- A year into Ikon, Alterra Chief Marketing Officer Erik Forsell talks about the new season pass landscape.
- Vail takes stock at Crested Butte and may or may not build the Teo II lifts proposed by Triple Peaks.
- As rumored, Vail is acquiring Falls Creek and Mt. Hotham in Australia for $124 million.
- The Spanish ski resort that closed when a chair fell from its Yan detachable quad reopens with uploading via snowcat.
- The San Diego Fire Department performs a successful over water night evacuation of the Bayside Skyride at SeaWorld San Diego.
- Timberline Four Seasons Resort, which has struggled with lift breakdowns and other issues of late, is closed this weekend and could be placed in receivership.
- Snow Valley missed all of President’s weekend will remain closed indefinitely due to road damage. Mountain High is kindly honoring their season passes during the shutdown.
- In France, a six year old is seriously injured after her head gets stuck between a chair armrest and safety bar.
- As a new lawsuit against The Hermitage Club alleges fraud, club founder Jim Barnes tells members a revised reorganization plan is coming soon.
- The New York Times visits the new Taos and its four new lifts.
- Not everyone is happy about changes at Powder Mountain.
- LST Ropeways is still working to repair the company’s first detachable chairlift, which missed its entire first winter, some of last winter and all of this one thus far.
- 49 Degrees North had a challenging weekend with one lift rope evacuated/down for the season and another losing a chair with people on it.
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Thanks Peter for correcting the NYT’s on the opening year for the Kachina Peak Lift.
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I hope the issue with Bonanza at 49° North will encourage them to replace it with a high speed quad in the near future.
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All of those 1970 vintage lifts need replacing. I lost confidence in 49 North a couple seasons ago and won’t return until there is a visible improvement in the infrastructure. A chair falling off the rope?? Inexcusable
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Even though Bonanza is an SLI lift, it has Riblet insert clips. For some reason the two other SLIs built at 49N the very same year have grips. Riblet clip ejections have occurred on occasion at quite a few mountains.
On the infrastructure front, I found the below quote from the mountain on Facebook intriguing in response to a question about being taken over by the Kalispel Tribe, owner of the nearby Northern Quest Resort & Casino.
“No sale has taken place. A sale may not ever take place. If or when details on a change of ownership solidify, we will definitely make that information available. Anything prior to that is just rumor.”
No doubt 49 Degrees North is a fantastic ski mountain in need of new capital like so many others.
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Oh, SO thats what people were talking about with the LST detachable.
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It sounds like the French accident occurred on a brand new 2018 Poma six pack with locking safety bars.
https://www.remontees-mecaniques.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=16859&st=260
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