- Co-owned Dodge Ridge and Mountain High are the latest resorts to join the Indy Pass.
- The Jay Peak sale hearing is delayed until September in hopes more parties will bid.
- Vail Resorts will cap day ticket sales at every mountain every day this season.
- Vail settles one class action labor lawsuit for $13 million.
- Alta’s former Sunnyside detachable triple will keep its name at Red Lodge Mountain.
- A grand opening celebration for the Palisades Tahoe Base to Base Gondola is scheduled for December 17th.
- Grouse Mountain will break ground on its Leitner-Poma gondola next month.
- Loon Mountain’s former Seven Brothers triple will live on as an adventure park access lift in Quebec.
- Also in Quebec, closed Mont Glen plans a 2023 reboot with a new poma lift.
- Doppelmayr will supply the world’s longest single stage monocable gondola in the Caribbean.
- Lift repairs remain on track at Kimberley.
- Sunrise Park will replace what was once the longest triple chair in the world with a rope tow.
- Waterville Valley and MND fly towers for the first Bartholet detachable in North America.
- Cypress Mountain auctions chairs from the retired Sky double.
- Wildcat will sell retired Doppelmayr quad chairs next month.
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It feels like the Palisades website is trying as hard as they can to downplay this lift lol …
“Sightseeing will not be allowed here.”
“The Gondola will operate during the winter season only”
“installation of the Gondola will not open additional skiable terrain … The trip will take about 16 minutes.”
“The name of the Gondola is Base to Base Gondola.”
… like ‘this lift is not exciting. it will not give you shiny new views. it’s basically invisible. it basically doesn’t exist. please don’t hate on us.’
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Yeah I’m a bit sad it won’t be open in the summer but I still think it will be nice.
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Is Seven Brothers still going to be a lift? The article makes it sound like they bought the towers to use as supports for a Monkey Trunks type rope adventure thingy.
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Sounds like a lift to me: “The work, which will begin shortly, will include the installation of a small chairlift connecting a new parking lot”
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Interesting that the Grouse Gondola is such limited capacity with it only nominally being specced to the capacity of the old Blue tram, so the total will stay the same. I suspect some sort of balanced capacity issue re parking / amenities or other so it could be hand waved past permitting. The new Gondola should easily be able to manage almost double that with extra cabins. They really need that as its incredibly busy most of the time anyways.
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Reading the presser, it appears they plan on running the gondola and the Red tram at the same time. It’s been a long while since they ran public on the Blue tram, so that’s a step up in capacity (or a return to the original, but either way).
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sucks that they are probably gonna replace that blue tram top building. In pictures, it looks like quite a unique cool looking building. probably going to be replaced with some boring modern thing.
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I’m hearing that Charles Skinner’s purchase of Big Snow has gone through
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Now on Granite Peak’s Blog: https://www.skigranitepeak.com/blog/a-new-era-in-the-up/
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‘been in this business for seventy years… and never heard of a “Swiss Cord.” Is this a new name for a rope tow?
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Its Sun Kid’s product name for their rope tow models
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how long is that rope tow gonna be?
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About 900 ft
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so it would not start at the base I assume, because that would be a long rope tow
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Does Powdr investing in JHMR employee housing presage an acquisition?
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It’s not JHMR employee housing. The Cumming Family partnered with Teton County on the project, which will be open to anyone meeting income limits and/or local work requirements. Ian Cumming lived in Jackson but had no involvement with JHMR as far as I know.
http://www.tetonwyo.org/2442/Jackson-Street-Apartments
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Wonder if the poma on Mont Glen will serve the full 1000+ vert of the former trails or the lower former chairlift portion. That’ll be 1 leg burner of a ride.
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Very classy of Red Peaks to keep the Sunnyside name from Alta.
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Hey Peter- you probably already know about this but just in case. I saw this in a news article today.
https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/first-chairlift-accessible-mountain-bike-park-conifer-colorado-hurdles/
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