- At Mont Sutton, an empty chair falls from one lift while the mountain’s lone detachable quad remains out of service due to a technical issue.
- A Victoria, BC suburb considers building a transport gondola.
- Purgatory loses its workhorse six pack over the busy holiday (now back open).
- Ontario ski resorts, many of which are family businesses, try to stay optimistic during the provincial shutdown.
- Royal Mountain, New York changes hands.
- Italy postpones reopening ski resorts until January 18th.
- Jay Peak and Burke Mountain are set to receive $5.2 million under a settlement between a law firm and investors.
- Kimberley continues to spin two upper mountain lifts for hikers and skinners while repair work continues on the Northstar Express.
- Wolf Creek has a new James Niehues trail map.
- Open only one day before the pandemic, the SkyView gondola at Hard Rock Stadium gets set to reopen March 22nd.
- The new T-Bar at Sugarbush is named KBRA (Kelly Brush Race Arena).
- A fall and catch are caught on camera at Bristol Mountain.
- A newspaper profiles how lift maintenance and operations teams work together at Snowmass.
- Winter Park safely evacuates 143 people from the Pioneer Express. Public records show a component in the return terminal failed due to fatigue.
- Testing finds further work is needed to make the Mont-Sainte-Anne gondola safe. It may not open for four to eight weeks and season passholders are being offered refunds.
- Porkies, Michigan shuts down to complete a required chairlift inspection.
- Bousquet Mountain will open tomorrow under new ownership with a new lift.
- Hunter Mountain reopens today after a three day Covid-related closure.
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Wasn’t Bousquet originally planning on opening on the 1st?
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Yes but it was delayed due to weather. Sounds like the new triple isn’t quite ready yet but the Blue chair will be open tomorrow.
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Oh it is very not ready. Still no rope line.
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What could be wrong with the porkies chair that it has to shut down for over a week, since they only run it on the weekend couldn’t it be possible to inspect it on one of the weekdays?
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I asked and received this explanation from the Park Supervisor: “Gogebic Community College (GCC ) who operates the ski hill, had their normal annual LARA inspection completed in early December. There was a notice for repair issued, according to GCC the repair was completed and proper paper work submitted per guidelines but we received a notice late Wednesday to cease operations. Jim Vanderspoel (GCC) has been in contact with Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA) to clear things up but they are requiring a load test be conducted due to the change in programing to the drive motors. Therefore the ski hill will be temporarily shut down to conduct the load test. We are hoping just for this weekend as the inspector plans to be here Tuesday or Wednesday of next week.”
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Huh, I didn’t know gogebic cc ran porkies too. I knew mt zion was run by them.
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