- Doppelmayr begins hiring maintenance staff for the Hard Rock Stadium gondola in Miami.
- Alterra CEO Rusty Gregory says resorts will need to adapt as Ikon Pass sales increase.
- The gondola wasn’t the only lift snafu in Steamboat this week.
- Treeline Cirque is on the map and now open at Alpine Meadows.
- Revelstoke Mountain Resort christens its fifth lift, Stellar.
- The crazy project to build three 3S gondolas at one Chinese resort is coming along.
- The largest investment ever at Stevens Pass is complete but can’t open without more snow.
- Still no construction but Valemount Glacier Resort isn’t dead yet.
- Magic’s Black Line quad may not be finished until February.
- The favorite proposed project of 32,000 Vancouver residents surveyed? A gondola up Burnaby Mountain.
- An avalanche hits and damages a Yan/Skirail fixed quad in France.
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Whoa. I’ve actually been on that lift (Cucumelle at Serre-Chevalier). It’s the only way to get from the Monetier-les-Bains side of the resort to the rest of it, so that’s going to be kind of inconvenient.
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Is it me or does it seem like every time there’s a lift destroyed in an Avalanche it’s the French? I can think of at least a few instances of this happening…
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Could it be there are simply a lot more lifts in avalanche terrain over there?
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Perhaps, though the Swiss would likely have the same problem.
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The Kumme chairlift in Zermatt, Switzerland, was destroyed by an avalanche in January 2018. A real shame as it was a classic Garaventa, at the time the oldest detachable chairlift in Switzerland
https://www.remontees-mecaniques.net/bdd/reportage-tsd3-kumme-garaventa-3279.html
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I actually rode the Kumme lift. Quite cool primitive technology. Very well maintained too. It’s a shame that area is currently without lift service.
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Last year a chair in Zermatt was destroyed, and this year the base station of a T-Bar at the Stubai Glacier was badly damage, although apparently it will be back: https://www.alpinforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=144&t=62160&start=75#p5221873
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The chair was truly a sad thing to see go. There’s only so many 1981 detachable triples. It was the oldest detachable chair I’ve ever ridden (my oldest gondola was on the same mountain, only about a mile away. It’s gone now too). They plan to replace the chair with a two stage gondola, but it’ll never be quite the same.
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