- An affiliate of Silver Mountain buys 49 Degrees North.
- A citizen group wants the Colorado Passenger Tramway Safety Board to regulate lift operations more broadly than the current mechanical focus.
- Bogus Basin will auction a bunch of Riblet triple chairs beginning Sunday.
- The Disney Skyliner is not a normal gondola and will be evacuated as such in an emergency.
- Steamboat already has a gondola construction update.
- So does Bretton Woods.
- A guy accused of ducking ropes around a chairlift terminal at Killington is charged with disorderly conduct.
- Whistler Blackcomb will open some of the same lifts for both skiers and mountain bikers for the first time this spring.
- The Forest Service gives its blessing to the Eldora Jolly Jug expansion and high speed lift.
- Doppelmayr USA is on Facebook.
- Vail Resorts reports a fantastic season with skier visits, lift ticket revenue, retail, ski school and dining all up between 6.2 and 9.3 percent through April 21st.
- The Los Angeles Dodger Stadium 3S is headed to environmental review.
- Poma’s 3S project in China is going to have an insane 5,775 people per hour capacity.
- CWA teases its soon-to-debut 3S cabin.
Lift Blog 
I vaguely remember being in the same Gondola lift (but not the same cabin) with mountain bikers in whistler in early April circa 2002. Or am I making all that up?
LikeLike
The new 3s cabin looks like a supersized Omega V from the tease post.
LikeLike
Here it is.
LikeLike
I looked at the Bogus Basin chair auction, and it seems like there’s a lot of people that really want Superior Tramway triple chairs + the sentimental value. It seems like many have already been bid up to the max of $2,500; and all are over $1000 now.
LikeLike