- After a year with no revenue, one Canadian resort resorts to GoFundMe to stay afloat.
- SE Group will study the viability of a proposed hiking/biking chairlift near Park City.
- 97 percent of Bryce Resort homeowners vote to fund $2.5 million replacement of Chair 2.
- Cape Smokey receives a CA$2.5 million construction loan from the Government of Canada, although travel restrictions may delay completion of a new gondola.
- Doppelmayr’s 2021 Yearbook is out along with a new Wir magazine.
- Poma’s latest Reference Book also drops.
- Trails and the new lift line have been cleared on Sunday River’s Merrill Hill.
- Skytrac is still recruiting construction employees in Crested Butte, Steamboat, Whiteface and Whitefish.
- The first-of-its-kind Leitner 2S in Germany is complete, though Covid prevents public operation and a noise issue hinders full speed operation for now.
- Doppelmayr and Sun Group mark 14 years of building record breaking ropeways in Vietnam.
- Great Bear to raffle off retired Borvig quad chairs.
- The story of how MND came to be through 15 acquisitions and a focus on emerging markets.
- MND reports half year results with revenue declining 5 percent but snowmaking and ropeway revenue increasing by 6 percent.
- Less than four years ago, new terminal equipment was shoehorned into the Steamboat Gondola building. Now it’s being used for fire training in advance of demolition.
- Big Sky launches a Swift Current 6 update site.
- Vidanta SkyDream claims to be the world’s first gondola transportation at a beach resort.
- The Epcot Disney Skyliner line will close for a six day maintenance window in January.
- For the second time in two months, a guest is injured falling from equipment at Camelback.
- Berkshire East and Catamount Jon Schaefer owner talks expansion, says he came close to buying the Hermitage Club’s six pack and tells the story of re-pouring foundations for Bousquet’s new triple chair in January.
- Montana’s shuttered Marshall Mountain sells to a new owner.
- The proposed Los Angeles urban 3S releases its preferred alignment and will host two public meetings in June.
- In an interview, Poma Chairman Jean Souchal laments losing 30 percent of business from Covid but he remains optimistic, especially about urban transport by rope.
- Copper’s proposed Lumberjack replacement would be a detachable quad following a modified alignment.
- One of the Jay Peak fraudsters faces three years in prison.
- Icy Strait Point, home to two new gondolas stalled by the pandemic, will open this summer after all.
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Uh oh. Did Google crash again? All the comments are gone
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It’s not Google. WordPress.com screwed up an update to my site so I had to restore it to a few days ago and re-post the most recent post. My apologies to those who commented in the last 24 hours or so.
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Are similar WordPress issues with updating very common?
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I’ll attempt a repeat comment from the earlier post though it looks like the wording for Vidanta SkyDream has changed slightly in the news list.
Basically, I disagree with the “the world’s first gondola transportation at a beach resort” quote that Vidanta is using. Sentosa island (part of Singapore) has had a “cable car” gondola in use since the 1970’s with a few minute walk to beaches and in 2015 opened up an entirely new line across the island with one station literally a few yards/meters away from a main beach on the island. The entire island of Sentosa is nothing but resorts, amusement parks and similar.
I have not taken the new intra-island line, but have taken the original gondola across from Singapore’s main island across the harbor to Sentosa.
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Steamboat now has the Gondola Square cam back up to show the destruction of the Gondola building/lower terminal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgSD_WRKdhk&feature=emb_logo
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