- Four people file appeals seeking to halt construction of Park City’s new lifts.
- Doppelmayr, Poma and Leitner all release annual brochures featuring lifts built last year.
- The former owner of Jay Peak and Burke Mountain is sentenced to five years in prison and ordered to pay $8.3 million in restitution.
- The Tenney Mountain property is sold.
- Grouse Mountain formally applies for a development permit to build a new gondola.
- West Mountain looks to break ground in 2023 on a $140 million real estate project which includes a high speed quad.
- Whistler’s chair and gondola sale is live now.
- Heavenly to sell North Bowl triple chairs beginning today (update: the sale has been postponed for unspecified reasons.)
- With multiple projects in planning, Canada may beat the United States to the urban gondola party.
- Maine’s Quoggy Jo loses key funding.
- A preliminary timeline for the Timberline Lodge gondola construction: 2028.
- Juneau will spend $845,000 to transport the used 15 passenger gondola it purchased for Eaglecrest, more than double an initial estimate.
- Mount Roberts Tramway operator Goldbelt downplays its involvement in the Eaglecrest gondola project.
- Preliminary lift work begins begins at Mayflower.
- In case you missed Doppelmayr Insights, here’s a replay.
- Bartholet prepares to build Flem Xpress, the first Ropetaxi with autonomous gondolas and multi-station selection.
- Big Snow is on track to reopen May 27th.
- County officials approve Mt. Shasta’s Gray Butte expansion and construction begins.
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This drama in Park City is ridiculous. While I understand some of the concerns, at the same time y’all chose to live in a small resort town. They will have to do upgrades if we want the Olympics back (which we do).
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There is just a general disdain for PCMR and Vail Resorts at the moment because they want to build over the parking lots and are implementing paid parking for next season. People believe they have a right to free parking right next to the base of the resort at any time they desire.
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Vail does tend to nickel and dime you to death at their resorts. I can understand the frustration
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That is true. However, that is the downside of having a cheap season pass. It is the Six Flags or budget airline model of running a ski resort.
For Park City specifically, the town has a free bus network that serves the resorts and Vail has maintained free parking at Canyons. Additionally, should residents not like to support Vail and still like to ski, they have two other ski resorts in their town that are each offering a unique product.
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It actually wasn’t Vail’s idea to add the paid parking. The town made them implement it as a way to control crowding with the new chairlifts going in.
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$6.125mil for Tenney! Whoa!!!
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Meanwhile, we had a controlled burn from yesterday or earlier this week flare up on the backside of Keystone.. Right by a lift.
https://kdvr.com/news/local/wildfire-sparks-in-keystone/
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Maybe in the are of the new Bowl express? Kinda looks like it but I can’t tell for sure. Some of you who know Keystone better will.
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Looks like it was a controlled burn right next to the Ruby Express, doesn’t really look like it was in the Bergman Bowl area
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There were a bunch of slash piles on the west side of the Ruby liftline earlier this month. I imagine that was the fuel reduction controlled burn they’re referring to.
Despite the late snow, it’s still dry up here. Dillon Ranger District has been conducting several burns this week; hopefully this is the only one that’s gotten out of control.
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There was also a controlled burn about a week ago near Mt. Rose in Nevada. I remembered I could see the smoke. It didn’t get out of control tho
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The burn near Mt. Rose was in the Upper Whites Creek / Jones Creek drainage area, which is about three to four miles away from Mt. Rose as the crow flies, so the resort would not have been in danger even if it was out of control since the prevailing winds usually blow from the southwest.
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Trees are being cut for the new lift line of Red Dog at Palisade.
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