- Mt. Rose wants to replace Lakeview and build a two stage detachable Atoma lift instead of two separate alignments shown here.
- Two people survive after their small plane crashes into and is caught by chairlift cables in Italy.
- The Forest Service seeks public comment on issuing a special use permit to Mountain Capital Partners to operate Elk Ridge, Arizona, which closed in 2017.
- The owners of 100 year old Pocono Manor want to build a 1.5 mile chairlift to the upcoming Pocono Springs lifestyle and entertainment complex.
- The New York Times considers whether a planned four station gondola is appropriate in historically holy Jerusalem.
- All three Disney Skyliner lines remain closed following Saturday’s mishap at the Riviera station.
- The replacement for Big Burn at Snowmass may be a six place bubble model.
- Hermitage Club founder Jim Barnes is ordered to pay a member more than $5.4 million for making misrepresentations.
- Crystal Mountain adds 12 gondola cabins with the mountain’s new logo, bringing the Mt. Rainier Gondola to its maximum capacity of 900 passengers per hour.
- Magic Mountain’s new quad may not spin by Christmas but hopefully MLK weekend.
- Environmental review of the New York Capital Gondola project should commence next week.
- Lake Louise’s VonRoll gondola towers finally fly away after 60 years.
- The VonRoll in Oklahoma thrills riders for a 54th year.
- Fatzer fast tracks a new haul rope for the Sea to Sky Gondola.
- The recently opened 3S in Norway successfully toes the line between an urban gondola and ski/tourism lift.
- Vail seeks to buy the Hermitage Club’s snowmaking guns.
- A super cool LST T-Bar on the roof of a waste-to-energy plant opens for skiers in Copenhagen.
- Poma begins constructing a five section urban gondola on the remote Indian Ocean island of Réunion.
- Grouse Mountain acknowledges the Blue Skyride‘s days are numbered and will study replacing it over the coming year.
- Frost Fire, which was unable to spin its brand new Skytrac quad last winter, says it will open this winter.
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So Lake Louise is finally getting rid of the gondola towers. Kinda sad, as it was once such an iconic lift at Lake Louise. But I understand that all old things need to go.
http://skiingbc.info/pages/lift-19263.php
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I’m surprised that Rose is considering a Lakeview replacement over a Ponderosa/Galena replacement, but I hope that the fact that both of their projects are detachable says that they’re in a good position.
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The Elk Ridge permit application calls for “the placement of “neveplast” on the existing ski run; this artificial snow material surface would allow for skiing/boarding when there is not sufficient natural snow to operate”
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Also adding a snow cat to get skiers/boarders up the mountain instead of replacing the broken down poma. Not sure I can see a snowcat “operation” be successful for such a small vertical area.
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You forgot to mention that Keystone opens tomorrow
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That was announced 17 minutes after this post. There’s still time for A-Basin and/or Loveland to open too!
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A-Basin says their opening today from 3:30 to 5:30 PM…. https://www.arapahoebasin.com/the-mountain/opening-day/
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Loveland has said they are hoping for next week so their out. A-Basin hasn’t made anything official yet though they have hinted.
The going rumor that if A-Basin announces opening tomorrow, then Keystone will put on the lights and open earlier in the morning. I could see that happening and it makes sense given that Keystone hasn’t set a time yet.
Long story short, Keystone will open first tomorrow.
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Arapahoe Basin opened today from 330pm- 530pm. They won the first to open race!
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A-Basin says they’re opening today from 3:30 to 5:30 PM…. https://www.arapahoebasin.com/the-mountain/opening-day/
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My post became outdated while I typed it. lol Let’s see if Keystone responds.
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Looks like River Run and Montezuma will be open. Maybe ruby too.
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On the Atoma expansion at Mt. Rose, honestly two separate lifts looks more practical than a two-stage detachable. Have a detachable be the main lift for the pod, with a fixed grip lift for ingress (or egress? I can’t tell). The “two stage detachable” proposal kinda reminds me a bit of Breck’s initial master plans for Peak 6 (since the lifts had to be built around existing private property lines), which at one point planned for a two-stage high speed six pack from the junction of Monte Cristo and Angel’s Rest to the Horizon Warming Hut, with a turn and mid-load station before going to the top of Peak 6. Instead of that, we got the current configuration of two separate lifts, with a fixed grip quad (Zendo) shuttling guests over to Horizon Warming Hut, and the high speed six pack (Kensho SuperChair) being used for lapping the trails.
I sorta see the same thing happening with the idea of a two-stage detachable for Mt. Rose’s expansion instead of two separate lifts.
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Okay, the lift crossing the ski bridge in the map would be an egress lift.
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New cable or splice on the Jackson Hole tram?
https://www.jacksonhole.com/live-mountain-cams.html
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New haul rope.
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Already?
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It is 11 years old… And is a heavy duty tram with year round use so not so surprising..
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Bah. ABasin didn’t win, They only opened for a few hours. Keystone wins the race if they have a decent ski day in my book.
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Technically, they did. I don’t really care about early season skiing, but I do care about end of season skiing, and a basin does a really good job of staying open!
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Just from the trail map, I’d say that a high speed quad is most likely what Mt. Rose is seeking for replacing Lakeview.
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