- Vail-owned Wilmot Mountain takes down Lift 7 with no immediate replacement planned.
- A monument is unveiled honoring Byron Riblet, who founded Riblet Tramway Company in 1896.
- Kirkwood and Heavenly both utilize snowmaking systems for protection from the Caldor Fire.
- The Forest Service closes all National Forests in California due to the fire emergency, affecting summer operations at numerous resorts.
- The Palm Springs Tramway is set to close for a month of maintenance.
- Skytrac completes the first new lift of the year at Great Bear. Already in the Lift Blog database!
- Steamboat raises more than $200,000 for local nonprofits selling Priest Creek chairs.
- Alterra buys another heli ski operation, adds Dolomiti Superski and Kitzbühel as Ikon Pass international partners.
- Mexico City’s Cablebús Line 2 is certified by Guinness World Records as the longest urban gondola.
- The Storm Skiing Podcast features Charles Skinner, owner of Granite Peak and Lutsen Mountains, to talk lift upgrades and expansion plans at both resorts.
- Copper Mountain will host a State of the Resort presentation and capital plan update tomorrow.
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Can anyone listen into the Copper Mountain event and summarize what they say? I’m interested in seeing if they’re gonna address any future lift plans, but I’ve got a conflict.
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I’ll hopefully have a transcript in the next couple of days. I’m very interested in the presentation as I need to make maintenance decisions on a lift, and no-one has said anything about it all summer except ‘it may happen’.
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Tried to watch it but the link was broken. Guess I’ll have to wait until I go into work tomorrow.
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No lift news. Says it will only be up for 24 hours which is a bit odd.
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Your vid is unavailable You realize.
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It was only up for 24 hours. That’s what Copper wanted.
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Why would copper only want it up for 24 hours?
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No news on the Lumberjack lift but new branding Western Territory? New runs off of Lumberjack plus a connector run from bottom of Timberline to Kokomo/Lumberjack area. Also some new beginner fun zones. I also noticed the cat track from Union Meadows has name now, Waterfall Road. Could be a sign of more to come on the west side?
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Not a peep about the address at work today.
The new run has been there for awhile, we just needed to connect it to the rest of the mountain (it was the abandoned gondola liftline from 2003). The new connector trail from the bottom of I to the top of K will be nice and ties in that ‘new’ run.
The exit from the Meadows has always been called the Waterfall Road but I guess it was never signed as such.
Western Territory, huh? That’s a new one. Wonder what that will entail, or if it’s a fancy branding thing for the existing K/L pod.
I’m disappointed they didn’t mention yea or nay on L-lift- everyone on the hill knows something is happening there but we’d kinda like to know when for planning purposes.
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I hope the two new European Ikon destinations are meant for real, unlike Zermatt where they didn’t honor my Ikon pass and told me it is only valid until mid-March despite none of the fine print on the Ikon website mentioning any limitations.
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