- Sunrise Park Resort will develop a master plan to address infrastructure challenges and might build a chondola.
- Leitner submits the lowest bid for Mexico City’s upcoming Cablebus gondola system.
- Three months since it was rope evacuated, SeaWorld San Diego’s Bayside Skyride remains closed.
- The Indy Pass is up to 24 resorts.
- Leitner supplied 43 ropeway systems last year, 77 percent of which were detachable and 80 percent of which carry more than four passengers per carrier.
- Doppelmayr has a new WIR issue and the 2019 yearbook is out.
- Timberline’s bankruptcy filing will prevent a scheduled receivership hearing from taking place.
- The new Oakland A’s ballpark, which includes a gondola component, receives one key approval.
- Poma’s 2018 Reference Book is also out along with a new Pomalink highlighting Copper’s new combination lift.
- The largest Hermitage Club creditor is seeking an August auction.
- One of the biggest lost ski areas in Colorado, Cuchara, is now publicly owned with a master plan for two new chairlifts.
- Omega V may not yet be in the United States but miniature versions are already available.
- Ski resort employees are among the most likely to be injured on the job in the United States, behind only nursing home workers and motor home manufacturing employees.
- Cascade Mountain’s North Wall lift is for sale.
- White Pass’ old platter is still up for grabs.
- The Forest Service releases its environmental assessment of Whitefish Mountain Resort’s Hellroaring Basin project.
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Regarding the closure of the San Diego Zoo gondola, I offer this link for my English speaking friends..
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/tourism/story/2019-05-08/seaworld-gondola-ride-that-stranded-passengers-has-yet-to-be-fixed
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Link updated, thanks Michael.
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The Poma reference book has a lift – Tlemcen, Algeria – which appears to be a standard LPA gondola, but with Doppelmayr (Gassner Stahlbau) standard towers, tower heads, and sheaves!
And I could be wrong but the towers are almost certainly not old enough for it to be a replacement lift reusing the old towers.
Does anybody know more about this?
Pages 19–20 if anyone is interested.
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It looks like that lift operated from 2009-2015 with CWA Conus cabins and Doppelmayr DT-215 grips.
https://www.dzbreaking.com/2017/08/08/tlemcen-cable-car-operational-five-months/
Also on page 36-37 there is a new Poma gondola with CWA Omega cabins. My understanding is the cabins came from a Doppelmayr gondola nearby which received new cabins from CWA last summer.
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Very interesting, thank you. So I was wrong about it not being a replacement lift, although it is unusual for a gondola like this to be replaced after only 10 years, although having been shut for 3 years maybe they had no choice. It’s interesting that they chose Poma rather than the original manufacturer (is ETAC related to Poma?). I wonder how much of the lift is actually new, beyond the cabins, grips, and (presumably) terminal contours, and how Poma would have fitted it all onto the existing Doppelmayr structures.
And I was about to comment asking about those CWA cabins on pages 36–37! Thank you.
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In Tignes they upgrade a Doppelmayr 8 MGD to a 10 MGD and use the old 8 plc CWA Cabines for the new Poma Gondola.
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Can anyone explain the difference (in Europe) between Poma and Leitner?
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I believe Leitner owns Poma but they operate as separate companies. It seems that Poma restricts its sales to France while Leitner covers everything else to avoid cannibalizing the market. I’ve wondered why they don’t fully merge operations but I’m guessing that French resort operators insist on the Poma nameplate
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There is one Swiss project in the Poma book on pages 34-35. It’s within 15 miles of the French border. Leitner built four lifts in France last year, all within a stone’s throw of Italy. No question the vast majority of French lifts are Poma though. In addition to France, Poma also seems more common than Leitner in South America and Asia.
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Many of the big French lift companies such as Les Arcs are owned by an ultimately State-owned company called Compagnie des Alpes. I’m guessing with public ownership comes a stipulation that new lifts contain French built components. The Chamonix ski areas are ultimately Publicly owned but not through CDA and I see that they buy Leitner. Just one the charming contradictions of France, I guess.
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Are you going to do any midwestern resorts
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Pretty sure he has when there is news to share.
https://liftblog.com/2018/03/24/lutsen-looks-to-public-land-for-a-bright-future/
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Thanks for sharing re: North Wall at Cascade. I’m interested to see what they put in there, I’d imagine a fixed grip quad, probably the same model as B-Dub for parts compatibility. Is B-Dub an L-P?
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Cascade got back to me. They are removing North Wall but not replacing it for now. They plan to upgrade a different lift in the future that services more of the mountain.
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