- Saddleback demolishes the Rangeley double to make room for its upcoming high speed quad.
- Debt-laden Ski Granby Ranch lays off all its employees and won’t issue refunds to guests with canceled vacations.
- The $2.2 trillion phase three stimulus package passed by Congress doesn’t include assistance specifically for ski areas but there is hope phase four might.
- Vail Resorts borrows more than $500 million from existing lines of credit in order to increase its cash position and maintain financial flexibility during the outbreak.
- While many Leitner-Poma staffers work from home, a skeleton crew continues production.
- Even in hard-hit Italy, one major lift customer plans to commence construction as soon as the immediate health danger has passed.
- Many Doppelmayr employees are also working from home and production continues in Wolfurt.
- Aspen Snowmass intends to complete all capital projects as planned this summer including the $10.8 million Big Burn chairlift.
- Vail Resorts CEO Rob Katz personally donates $2.5 million to mountain community charities and an employee assistance fund.
- Yet another lift project cancelled by Vail Resorts: replacement of Peachtree at Crested Butte this summer.
- NSAA estimates costs from early closings and lost pass sales will exceed $2 billion in the United States and forecasts capital spending will plunge 50 percent this year.
- Magic Mountain’s Geoff Hatheway offers a small ski area perspective on COVID-19.
- Coronavirus may impact the review timeline for Snow King Mountain’s proposed expansion and other projects on Forest Service lands.
- Katharina Schmitz officially takes the reigns of Doppelmayr USA from Mark Bee, who retired on March 31st.
- Boyne Resorts estimates $22 million in lost revenue as a result of this winter’s abrupt end.
- The Vietnamese developer behind both the world’s longest and tallest 3S gondolas plans another island-hopping 3S in the country’s north.
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So are the chairs from the Rangeley double up for sale or is the lift just going to the scrap yard, chairs and all?
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The Rangeley Alpine Ski Club will be auctioning off the chairs as a fundraiser.
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Will the Doppelmayr CTEC drive and return terminals be sold or scrapped?
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They’re already listed for sale on skiresortequipment.com
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That ad is 5 years out of date. The current plan is to save Rangeley’s terminals for a future Sandy replacement.
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Here’s the listing on that website:
https://www.skiresortequipment.com/lifts/asset%3Ds1542143559181
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Interesting. Thank you for the update!
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Is there a website or phone number to call for info on price and when to pick them up? I already have a Black chair from Magic and would like another piece of history.
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The below website suggests the new Vietnam 3S will be 13 miles long with a capacity of 5,500 riders per hour. Wow.
https://catbaexpress.com/cat-ba-cable-car.html
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Broken into 4 roughly equal sections, that’s about 5250 metres (3.25 miles) each – still incredibly long
At the current maximum possible speed of 8.5 m/s, it would take 41 minutes end to end, plus the extra time passing through three intermediate stations
That’s mad
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Wait big burn is being replaced, one more landmark of lift technology gone for the ages.
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Yes, and one more aging, maintenance-intensive machine too. Although I wouldn’t call it a landmark as there was nothing innovative about it. (Don’t worry, I said the same thing about the old Flyer but I was still bummed to tear it out- got kind of attached to it after sixteen years).
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Since when was Peachtree going to be replaced? Did I miss an announcement?
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It was never announced, the lift was to be a Skytrac triple when I last checked with engineering.
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I’m starting to think that the Snow King expansion has become the Myth of Sisyphus.
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