- Ski Wentworth in Nova Scotia names its new Quad Cobequid after the local mountain range.
- The Seattle Times profiles this year’s turnaround at Stevens Pass.
- The Merrill Hill expansion opens at Sunday River after two years of construction.
- Bear Valley’s Grizzly chair is closed due to a deropement and four chairs being ejected from the haul rope (note: the description in the Instagram post is not accurate but the resort comments below the post.)
- A child is hospitalized after falling from a lift at Ski Sundown.
- Storm damage forces more comm line replacements at Sierra at Tahoe.
- Tenney Mountain to open next weekend for the first time since 2020.
- Big Squaw goes back up for sale.
- The oldest lift in Colorado will cease operations unless a new owner comes along.
- The Forest Service approves Waterville Valley’s World Cup/Exhibition T-Bar, though no construction timeline has been set.
- Former Big Sky/Crystal Mountain General Manager and prolific lift builder John Kircher dies at 64.
- Whitewater returns Silver King to service after a bullwheel bearing replacement.
- Crystal Mountain and Leitner-Poma work to reopen the Crystal Clipper this weekend.
- Deer Valley to launch Burns Express this afternoon.
- Doppelmayr pulls the haul rope for the new quad at Belle Neige (note: this lift was contracted with a February completion date.)
- Doppelmayr and Telluride still aren’t sure when Plunge Express will open.
- A misload causes a chair to get tangled in a terminal at Wolf Creek.
- A deropement leads to a rope evacuation at Crested Butte.
- Similar story at Brimacombe, Ontario.
- Whitefish rope evacuates the brand new Snow Ghost Express, says it had safety concerns that Leitner-Poma engineers are working to address.
- Palisades re-splices and reopens the new Red Dog Express.
- I’m told Bridger at Nordic Valley will miss the entire season due to a planned haul rope replacement.
- Aspen’s Silver Queen Gondola goes down due to a gearbox issue.
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The chair spacing on Plunge makes it look like its capacity is a bit more than 1,800 pph.
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ETA: Looks like they went with 2,400 pph for Plunge. It has 22 towers and I think somewhere around 110 chairs.
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Anyone know what the price of Big Squaw ski area in Maine is?
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That would be the Nova lift at Wolf Creek that has the mangled chair.
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Link to the Aspen Silver Queen article not working.
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Both link and lift are fixed now.
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Sad news about the Snow Ghost Express. The ghost of the original SG is getting revenge!
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Good job Whitewater on a pretty quick bullwheel bearing replacement on Silver King. Unfortunately they now have the Glory ridge chair down due to a haul rope issue.
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Can someone here tell me exactly how LM knows when a bullwheel bearing fails?
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Either by the sound or a wobble in the bull wheel and there are devices on it that can detect it
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I don’t work on lifts, but in the machinery I maintain, excessive heat is usually the first telltale sign that a bearing is not happy.
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Yes, but consider that the bearings in question sit outside in -10 C temps on average, if not lower. In this case there was most likely a rumbling sound, the grease coming out through the purge valves was sparkly (meaning there was metal content, indicating the bearing were no longer content), or someone saw a wobble in the wheel (EDZAHA has the right idea but on a lift this age there are no devices- I’m thinking a Doppelmayr ‘bullwheel plane switch’- that will monitor it).
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