- Mission Ridge is named its community’s Business of the Year for pressing forward with an ambitious lift replacement project using local labor during the pandemic.
- An auction gets underway for Howelsen Hill’s retiring double chairs.
- More than 28,000 non-union Vail Resorts employees will see end of season bonuses.
- Looking to cut costs, Six Flags axes one of its last three remaining VonRoll gondolas in Georgia.
- Silverton, Colorado weighs building a traditional ski resort to complement the non-traditional Silverton Mountain.
- Another child slips out of a chair but this time hangs on all the way to the top.
- Vail Resorts announces a better than expected 28.4 percent decrease in revenue for the quarter ended January 31st. Season to date through March 7th, skier visits are down 8.2 percent, lift revenue is down 8.9 percent, ski school revenue down 43.2 percent, dining revenue down 56.9 percent and retail/rental revenue down 31.6 percent.
- A report prepared by SE Group suggests $23 million worth of improvements to Spirit Mountain including a replacement Gandy lift. Under the plan, Double Jaw and Summit would be removed without replacement.
- Great Bear begins construction of its new Skytrac quad.
- A strategic plan for Arctic Valley includes T-Bar replacement.
- Blue Knob performs a night rope evacuation of the Route 66 double.
- The former owner of Showdown Montana floats developing a small ski area atop an EPA superfund site near Great Falls.
- The Jackson Hole Aerial Tram will shut down for maintenance all summer but two gondolas and a chairlift will spin instead.
- Leitner introduces an online ropeway configurator tool.
- A new lost Northeast ski area video series begins with an episode on Hogback Mountain.
- Virginia could become home to an even larger indoor ski area than New Jersey.
- Big Sky and Bridger Bowl skier visits trend lower than last year.
- Mt. Sunapee will auction chairs from the Duckling double to benefit the EpicPromise Foundation.
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If I’m correct, the removal of Duckling means there are no Roebling lifts still in operation without major modifications
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Aren’t Hopkins essentially the same as Roeblings? If so, then there are plenty left at various amusement parks as sky rides and what not..
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Hopkins used some Roebling tech, but most of the designs are pretty different.
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Please someone correct me if I am wrong, but I have used the Leitner ropeway config. around even this time last year. Did they update it?
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I believe the old one was dopp.
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Press release dated March 10th, 2021.
https://www.leitner-ropeways.com/en/company/news/detail/step-by-step-to-the-ideal-ropeway/
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Interesting revenue data from Vail – it’s not that skiers aren’t skiing, it’s that they’re not learning, eating, or buying stuff.
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A bit surprised we haven’t heard from Alterra yet…
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Hopefully no news is good news? :-)
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My guess is they will announce on March 23rd the same day Epic pass releases details haha would be an epic move by Alterra
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Rumors are that Alterra is doing Squaw-Alpine gondola this year instead of mammoth six packs and will announce name change in press release too. Nothing is really know about elsewhere though but I will be not surprised if we see announcements on something at Steamboat or Timber Express at Tremblant.
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I can ask one of my friends who would know this weekend. I would not be surprised if it were either because they A) did not want to announce the Squaw rebrand until April after the season and the gondola may be their only big capital improvement or B) Vail’s Epic announcement is later than usual and throwing all of their PR a couple of weeks early would just allow it to be overshadowed in the second half of the month.
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It’s likely they will do capital improvements at Steamboat also by redoing base area and moving gondola bottom terminal. I have heard Pioneer trails are very likely to be done there too.
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