- Mont-Sainte-Anne is ordered not to operate its gondola until the lift is deemed safe.
- A New Brunswick resort will pay a fine for a lift employee’s on the job injury.
- All three Disney Skyliner gondolas are set to reopen July 15th.
- Liftopia fights to stay out of bankruptcy as more ski areas say the company owes them money.
- Silver Mountain celebrates the anniversary of a historic agreement to bring the world’s longest gondola to Kellogg, Idaho.
- With its first chairlift complete, Skeetawk sets its sights on a much longer detachable quad.
- Construction of the planned Valemount Glacier resort is delayed.
- Cape Smokey begins building foundations for Atlantic Canada’s only gondola.
- White Pass will switch rotation direction of the Basin quad, requiring a tower to be moved.
- Snowy Range removes the Chute double’s drive terminal in preparation for a Skytrac Monarch upgrade.
- Big Sky Resort launches first in North America self load, self unload bike carriers on Ramcharger 8.
- The Forest Service approves expanding Summit Ski Area’s footprint to connect with Timberline Lodge & Ski Area.
- The California zoo which debuted a detachable gondola three years ago finds itself on the brink of permanent closure.
- As the Forest Service continues its review, the Town of Jackson once again takes up the issue of a Snow King Mountain gondola.
- Mission Ridge will auction off chairs from the former Liberator Express.
- A coalition including Alta, Snowbird, Ski Utah and Powdr launches a website and media campaign advocating for a Little Cottonwood Canyon gondola.
- Last year’s addition of the Peak 1 quad allows Lookout Pass to launch summer operations for the first time.
- Remains of a very old tramway in Utah may be removed.
- Green Mountain Valley School celebrates groundbreaking for a state-of-the-art T-Bar at Sugarbush.
- It took five long weeks to get a European specialist into New Zealand and able to splice the country’s first D-Line lift.
- Hunter Mountain abruptly cancels its summer skyride opening and will share more information in the coming weeks.
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I’m curious why they are reversing the rotation on the Basin lift. I’ve never heard of a ski area doing this before. What do we think the reason behind this is?
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I believe it’s to make loading and unloading easier. The current unloading ramp is basically right on the bullwheel, which makes getting off the lift a little sketch. Especially for new skiers/snowboarders.
I think this is also part of the reason that the lift is so slow.
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I’ve not ridden this before, but looking at the photo of the unload ramp it’s no different from any other lift I’ve worked on. Changing the rotation won’t affect that.
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Wouldn’t that also require switching sheave trains to the heavy side on every tower? Seems like a ton of effort for what looks like a very conventional profile and no change to the rider experience. Either way, why would they need to move or add a tower? Something to do with adding a midstation?
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That tram in Utah looks extremely sketchy.
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“Its 3-mile route climbed about 4,700 feet up ridiculously steep slopes and across deep canyons, taking an unprecedented 30-degree turn from the sixth tower to the top,” Thomsen wrote. “The 5,000-foot stretch between towers 4 and 5 over Big Canyon constituted the longest unsupported span in the world, besting the Glen Canyon Bridge by 1,000 feet. … Many passengers found the 45-minute gondola trip to the summit at least a little unnerving.
On Nov. 19, 1962, a nightmare scenario happened on the tram. Gray Meyer and Alan Larsen, a pair of federal aviation workers, were riding in the gondola when the cable broke and the tram car plummeted as much as 100 feet before it stopped 30 to 50 feet from the ground, according to a report in the Deseret News the following day.”
Jesus
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I can’t be the only one who cringes at replacing a Riblet vault drive with a SkyTrak one
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The replacement drive on Chute at Snowy Range is an overhead motor room not a vault drive like the original. Says so right on Snowy Range’s Facebook page.
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I know, wording came out a little weird there.
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Why does it need to be replaced?
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Part of a phased replacement, I think the plan is the lift will eventually become a triple.
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Interesting how said LCC gondola advocacy group lists Liftblog under “in the news”… So this is a newspaper now?
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What is wrong with the Gondola at Mont-Sainte-Anne?
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I am unable to read the article because of the language and I use ad blockers (don’t worry I don’t block this site)
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They had an incident in February where the lift came to a sudden stop and passengers were injured. It happened again in March. Apparently the cause of the incidences has not been fully determined.
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