- Beaver Creek’s website is updated to show the McCoy Park expansion coming for the 2021-22 ski season.
- Doppelmayr will build a $9.3 million temporary gondola for a horticulture show in Germany.
- A developer in St. George, Utah looks to build a lift-served bike park.
- An unnamed ski area in New York hits the market with an asking price of $1.6 million.
- The pandemic may have actually helped Timberline Mountain rebuild faster this summer.
- Searchmont, located near the Ontario-Michigan border with two new lifts under construction, remains uncertain what this winter will look like.
- Jamie Storrs, Senior Manager of Communications for Vail Resorts in the east, answers questions about reservations and more on the Out of Bounds Podcast.
- Spirit Mountain receives a $300,000 cash infusion allowing it to open this winter.
- Solitude profiles a major maintenance project on the Eagle Express.
- The Park Record checks in on Mayflower Mountain Resort construction and The Wall Street Journal reports Extell would like to partner with an established ski operator like Vail or Alterra.
- Indy Pass sales are pacing six times higher than last year!
- New Alaska ski area Skeetawk plans a December 5th grand opening.
- Poma launches a fresh new website.
- Mt. Baldy, Ontario, which initially held off on construction of a new chairlift this summer, decides to proceed with a fall installation.
- A virtual open house is now open for Los Angeles Aerial Rapid Transit project scoping.
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Baldy getting a new chair is awesome. That said the COLDEST I have ever been was there with the wind blowing, and the snow cannons going in -40 (c or f) , right through riders on the old chairlift. Photo linked.
Baldy (and Loch Lomond) will likely see more local traffic from TBay this year as they can’t go day skiing at Lutsen until the border restrictions change
https://photos.app.goo.gl/gQoFtL7GvHnjH5NG7
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The “new” lift is replacing a Riblet double chair, IIRC.
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Why wouldn’t they replace the tbar or the rope tow instead
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It wasn’t a ribblet, it was a sketchy copy made by some dockworkers / machine shop guys back in the day (1940’s. ?)
The “new” owner groups of Baldy and Loch are really making progress since I was last there.
The boarders liked the chair more than the T bar, and it is needed to get to the main / lookout / lower park wither as much trekking across the flat at the summit.
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Hmmmm, Willard is no far from Troy.
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Willard had a complicated legal settlement between the operator and the landowner in 2016 for about $550,000. So, yeah, maybe that’s up in the air again?
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It is interesting to hear Mayflower mention they are talking with Vail as an operator. There is no way I see Alterra letting Vail completely surround them in Park City, although the Deer Valley snowboarding ban is likely the biggest obstacle.
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So when a military member arrives to this new Mayflower resort with their snowboards in hand, are they going to say ‘sorry can’t snowboard here.’ I think not. I hope this new resort forces Deer Valley’s hand with regards to their outdated, asinine ‘no snowboarding’ policy.
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That agent does a lot of residential and commercial sales in Queensbury. Could indicate West is on the market.
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West should be worth a lot more than $1.6 million.
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I like how solitude is taking care of their aging express lifts. It’s nice to see how some resorts respect the classic engineering.
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Does Anyone Know If Snowshoe Has Any Plans?
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