- After a successful winter, Monarch Mountain will think about building a lift in No Name Basin in the next few years.
- The Georgetown-Rosslyn gondola concept is back under discussion in the nation’s capital.
- Leitner-Poma seeks workers to help build the Squaw-Alpine base to base gondola this summer.
- Whistler Blackcomb will not attempt to reopen for spring skiing once British Columbia’s closure order ends.
- Revelstoke shuts down early due to a Covid-related staffing shortage.
- Big White fires employees for attending a party widely shown in local media and is also closing 6 days early.
- Ontario shuts down skiing again.
- Indy Pass will announce new pricing and resort additions on April 27th.
- Snow King’s expansion receives final permission and chairs are already off the Summit double.
- Magic Mountain says the Black Line Quad will be re-engineered and completed for the 2021/22 season.
- A New Zealand operator is ordered to pay $8.4 million for spreading a wildfire via a moving chairlift in 2017.
- Skeetawk celebrates a successful inaugural season but a second chairlift remains years away.
- Okemo’s new six pack won’t have bubbles and the Green Ridge triple will head to another Vail resort in Pennsylvania.
- A GoFundMe is started to benefit the victims of the recent Camelback lift accident.
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I am not surprised Vail decided to skip on the bubbles at Okemo given their history, but Okemo skiers will not be happy. They have really come to love bubble lifts. The Quantum Four upgrade is also a lower capacity than I thought. Only 2900? If it is expandable to 3200-3400, I understand, but 2900 is pretty low for the mountain given its visitation levels (and their expected rise with the Epic Northeast Pass being introduced without quarantining in Vermont next winter).
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Me neither. Mainly because they never used the word bubble in last years press release. Who plans on building a bubble and doesn’t mention that part. I’m thinking it was never going to be a bubble.
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I think a second lift for Skeetawk is ten to twenty years out because they don’t have much visitation plus their next lift is a HSQ which I don’t know how they will get enough money for it.
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They don’t HAVE to have a HSQ.. It can be a used of FGT or FGQ..
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