- Blackcomb Glacier won’t host skiing this summer.
- Snow King Mountain sells $150,000 worth of retired chairs in one hour.
- Poma unveils the first 34 passenger cabin for the new urban 3S in Toulouse.
- Okemo’s new lifts will be called Evergreen Summit Express and Quantum Six.
- Former Ticketmaster chief Jared Smith is named President of Alterra overseeing mountain and hospitality divisions.
- The latest on the Stresa-Mottarone disaster:
- Numerous pictures surface showing brakes blocked with passengers aboard as far back as 2014.
- An employee says pre-operational checks were skipped entirely on the day of the crash.
- Two of the three men arrested are released.
- A lawyer for the manager still held alleges Leitner was slow to respond to service calls.
- Leitner was paid €127,000 ($155,000) per year to perform major maintenance on the tram under a long-term contract, though officials do not consider the company or any of its employees suspects.
- The owner of the operating company is also under investigation over two injury incidents on a Wiegand mountain coaster at the facility.
- Eitan, the little boy who survived, is released from intensive care.
- Cannon Mountain opens its tramway for the first time in 14 months.
- Europe’s largest ski operator plans to spend €200 million ($244 million) per year through 2025 to catch up on investments sidelined by the pandemic.
- The Pandora’s expansion on Aspen Mountain notches another approval.
- Anakeesta’s chondola lift breaks down for a bit.
- New Zealand’s first 8 passenger chairlift is complete and she’s a beauty.
- With 35 percent of jobs unfilled, Whitefish Mountain Resort cuts summer operating days.
- Schweitzer raises $80,000 for local charities through the sale of chairs from Snow Ghost.
- The Sea to Sky Gondola outlines some of its security plan.
- Los Angeles Aerial Rapid Transit (LAART) unveils more on its planned 3S: four stations, three towers, 44 cars and underground cabin storage at Dodger Stadium.
- Steamboat’s gondola building comes down after 35 years.
- Trollhaugen will sell chairs from Chair 1 next week.
- Quebec records 6.1 million skier days in 2020-21, slightly above average.
- The State of Texas commits $10 million towards a replacement Wyler Aerial Tramway in El Paso.
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Goodness! If a ski area can be assured to get 100k for sale of chairs from one of their lifts, is that enough to fund the chair replacement of an entire lift? (yes, just the chair replacement, not lift replacement).
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I think part of the reason they could raise so much is that Schweitzer was donating the profits to charity, so people were willing to spend a lot of money to not only go to charity but also get the old chairs.
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In some cases, it could be enough for an entire lift replacement.
https://www.chssnowmakers.com/classifieds/chsclassifieds/7808/von-roll-hall-triple-chair/lifts/
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So is it safe to assume that the Snow King/Sleeping Giant deal isn’t going to happen?
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Correct.
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Regarding Stresa-Mottarone, are there any clues as to why the haul rope broke? Seems everyone is focusing on the track rope brake fiasco, but that only contributed to the accident; it’s not the root cause.
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Preliminary investigation indicates that the haul rope did not break, but pulled out of the socket connection on the uphill side of the cabin.
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Any clue on what type of socket it is??? Hot poured, resin poured??? Looked a little small for mechanical???
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After reading some of the Italian media, some of the attempts (if that’s what they are) to cast Leitner in a bad light seem pretty blatant. Despite the company being ‘slow to respond’ to service requests, it is still the owner’s and maintenance department’s responsibility to shut the lift down for needed repairs instead of disabling the primary safety device on the cabins.
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Italians love to blame italian problems on non-italians. Just ask Amanda Knox.
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Leitner is an Italian company ?
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I believe when they merged they consolidated everything to the Poma operation in France.
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I am pretty sure it is the other way around I think Letiner actually bought Poma. In Europe, they use all Letiner designs pretty much now and in America Leitner Poma makes mostly unique parts. Either way, if you don’t criticize Leitner on this issue there are many other things to criticize them on, like for example what they did to Borvig.
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scskier- Leitner and Poma merged, there was no one buying the other that I’m aware of. In Europe Leitner maintained independent production of their own lifts, as did Poma. One can currently purchase a Poma or a Leitner; the bubble carriers are a Leitner design as far as I know while the open carriers are Poma and the LPA detachable grips were a shared design. The two companies still maintain their own terminal and line gear designs, though there are a couple of shared features like tension carriages and the Direct Drives. In North America Grand Junction continues to design and produce their own detachable terminals distinct from either Leitner or Poma, as well as line gear. They also build the Poma Alpha terminal for fixed grips, use the current version of the Model 77 fixed grip, and manufacture carriers for fixed-grip lifts.
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Leitner headquarters are in VIPITENO, Italy
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Leitner is an Italian company.
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Without the Horstman T-Bar, where would summer skiing be on Blackcomb? I’m assuming the Showcase T-Bar? And how would skiers get up there on a year where they did have summer skiing up there?
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