- A dozen years after closing, North Carolina’s Hawksnest lists two Hall doubles for sale.
- As it attempts to lower its tax bill, Jay Peak reveals it received several non-binding offers ranging from $38 million to $70 million.
- Burke Mountain argues it’s worth only $11.2 million, citing seven figure losses each of the last three years.
- Wachusett will sell four different sessions this winter rather than day and night tickets.
- Garibaldi at Squamish now plans to break ground in 2023 and spin lifts circa 2027.
- For the second time in a year, the tram in Juneau, Alaska has a new name: Goldbelt Tram.
- An American visitor caught riding the Banff Gondola faces a CA$750,000 fine.
- Not good: a paraglider gets tangled up in a chair.
- Sugarloaf reiterates its commitment to West Mountain, which will include a lengthy detachable lift.
- Holimont plans to eventually move Chipmunk, replace Sunset and build a new lift on WestMont Ridge.
- Maine’s closed Eaton Mountain becomes a non-profit and will aggressively seek funding for a new chairlift.
- Park City won’t be seeing gondola transit any time soon.
- Nitehawk’s only chairlift will remain out of service for the entire 2020-21 season following last spring’s landslide.
- Elk Mountain has not been sold.
- North America’s 2019-20 ski season will come to an end August 30th.
- Sunday River plans to build the Merrill Hill lift in 2022.
- Quebec-based Samson Industries, which built more than 100 ski lifts, calls it quits after 160 years.
- What was supposed to be New Zealand’s first 10 passenger Doppelmayr gondola will sit in shipping containers until tourism recovers.
- Big Sky and Doppelmayr get to work on Swift Current 6 (shown below.)
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So it’s going to be where Swift Current 6 starts construction this summer, but they won’t finish it until next summer.
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More likely finish next Fall . . .
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So Sunday River has time for a real estate lift, but not replacing Barker, one of the most important workhorses on the mountain?
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Two hall lifts for $1.00 I would take them right up but I don’t have the land
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I hope Eaton mountain does well. It seems like a nice little area that could be a local treasure if managed correctly.
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Btw, isn’t Timberline open much longer normally? Any reason they closed in August this year.
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It looks from one of the Swifty photos they’ve started to cut a new line for the lift somewhat to looker’s left of the existing line? Is the new Swifty going to move over a bit then?
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yes, you can see the Concrete pad for the top terminal is about 100 feet to the lookers left of the current top station. It looks to me like they did that so they could widen the ski way that comes from shedhorn to improve traffic flow.
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Yeah, wasn’t sure if that was for station or chair house.
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Both. To fit the building and have a wider pathway on the duckwalk.
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Ikon added red mountain to the pass. Did they buy red mountain or add it to the pass?
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They added Red as a partner resort. Alterra did not acquire the resort.
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