- Sunrise Park Resort considers building a combination lift.
- Mont-Sainte-Anne works diligently toward reopening its gondola with a reduced capacity of 30 cabins at first.
- A Vancouver developer scraps a gondola from its plans.
- Ontario’s more than 40 ski areas are ordered to close as part of a multi-week lockdown beginning tomorrow.
- The City of Sioux Falls orders a Skytrac quad for Great Bear Ski Valley.
- Fashion designer Rachel Zoe shares the story of her son falling from a Buttermilk quad chair on social media.
- Another fall at Sundance gets featured on Reddit.
- An 8 year old raises $10,000 to support a struggling nonprofit ski area in North Dakota.
- Snow King Mountain previews its gondola cabins which are being fabricated in France.
- Michigan’s Blackjack and Indianhead are both for sale with a listing price of $3.49 million.
- Blizzard Beach, chairlift and all, will reopen March 7th after a year-long closure.
- A group proposes connecting West Seattle to the regional transit network with a four station gondola.
- Steamboat creates a virtual gondola line powered by text message.
- With Europe’s ski industry struggling particularly hard, MND Group focuses on international markets including North America.
- The reimagined Bousquet Mountain opens with a new triple chair January 1st.
- Mission Ridge’s new summit lift opening later this winter will be called the Wenatchee Express.
- Lake Louise updates its trail map to show the West Bowl expansion, Summit lift and two future lift alignments.
- The New York Times checks in with ski resorts across the country about business during the pandemic.
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I wonder where the Sunrise Park chondola will be run. I think it would make an ideal lift for replacing Cyclone (which was 8,000 feet long) or Fort Apache (5,280 feet long).
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Isn’t Sunrise experiencing severe financial trouble? Maybe the US Department of the Interior would pay for the lift?
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Are they even open? I’ve heard reports that only the bunny hill is open which is WAY short on their goal of opening at least one top to bottom run for the first day of the season. Their snow report is from March both online and recorded message. No one answering phones. So sad yet no surprise.
As to our tax dollars paying for a lift? No thanks. But, that is something the tribe is floating. That said, given that this ski area is owned by a tribal “government” and not a private company, which would normally have some sort of tax burden, I have never understood why this place would be in financial trouble.
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Wet slab avalanche following 6.5” of rain caused significant damage to the main lodge at Belleayre, NY
https://nyskiblog.com/forum/threads/belleayre-conditions.658/page-6
https://nyskiblog.com/forum/threads/belleayre-conditions.658/page-7
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That looks horrible, and it is great that no one was hurt. The entire northeast was a mess today. It is absolutely crazy that Florida was warmer than Vermont during the day. The upcoming freeze will at least allow snowmaking, but it will also make all of the slush that didn’t melt a sheet of ice. The next two days are typically two of the top ten busiest days for North American ski mountains, and they are going to be brutal for the east.
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Merry Christmas, Peter & everyone here!
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Hey Peter where did you find the Chairlift operations video that headlines this Christmas News Round Up ?
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Saw you shared it on Facebook Mike. Cool video.
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I remember seeing that same video at Loon Mountain’s lift ops training in 2000 & 2001. It was a VHS. Nice find! Happy New Year!
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I enjoyed that video, love they had the old Yan detachable grips in operation before the refits by Poma/Dopp. Thank you for including!
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