- Jackson Hole takes initial steps toward adding Rock Springs and Green River canyons to its permit area, eyes new Sublette and Lower Sublette lifts.
- A California winery’s new D-Line gondola marches toward opening.
- Keystone confirms Bergman Bowl construction is a go to resume this summer and Rad Smith will paint an all-new Keystone trail map.
- Schweitzer’s upcoming detachable quad will be called Creekside Express.
- Utah Olympic Park christens its new high speed quad called Game Changer.
- Mission Ridge loses a lawsuit seeking $6 million from the county it operates in over an expansion dispute.
- MND wins a $106 million contract to supply equipment for a new ski resort in Uzbekistan including an 80 passenger aerial tramway, 10 passenger gondola, two chairlifts, six conveyor lifts, a mountain coaster, zip lines and avalanche safety systems.
- Attitash will auction chairs from the outgoing Summit Triple. Snowriver too.
- Software provider Entabeni Systems acquires Indy Pass, will cap sales next year and issue direct-to-lift cards.
- Mountain Division President James O’Donnell and Whistler Blackcomb COO Geoff Buchheister both leave Vail Resorts effective today. Buchheister is named CEO of Aspen and Bill Rock will become the new Mountain Division President at Vail.
- Crabbe Mountain explains recent lift down time.
- Paradise at Powder Mountain closes indefinitely due to a maintenance issue.
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I don’t think whoever wrote that article about Crabbe knows much about skiing, what theywrote about the chairlift makes no sense at all. Here’s a post from Crabbe which explains what they actually did: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0y9eUEJhz2tC6pzcyDjzg2rJLuRMgegfQNGMVGP5HK2mtaddDpLkTZKzMrrsHSwtLl&id=100064930472483&mibextid=Nif5oz
Sounds like it was an electric issue which has since been fixed.
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Yeah I agree, although it would be entertaining to see people “paddling” a chairlift
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it appears that Crabbe has at least 1 quad and possibly a J-Bar? Here is an article where you can see both. Sadly it seems the focus and pride of their upgrades was more directed for lodge updates vs lift maintenance/updates.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/crabbe-mountain-canada-winter-games-1.6193520
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They have a quad and a T-bar to the summit. The quad isn’t very old, it’s from the late 80s. Even when the quad was down, there was still summit access via the T-bar.
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Upon further review the article was satire. My apologies. The link has been updated to a statement by the resort.
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Peter- as of Sunday 1:25AM Mountain time- I’m only seeing 2 hyperlinks now, one for the Sterling Vineyard, and one for Aspen I believe. All the other stories dissipated.
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Somehow I managed to start doing this week’s roundup on last week’s post. Sorry about that. You should see the whole thing now.
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No worries.
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Actually pretty good satire. Funny.
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Sounds like to me a google translate disaster. Anybody still got the link it would be funny to read.
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Here you go: https://themanatee.net/broken-crabbe-chairlift-run-by-hand-for-winter-games-athletes/
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Wow, Rad Smith! Finally a worthy successor to Nieuhues (and Bill Brown). So interesting how there’s kind of a direct lineage of folks mentored by a singular predecessor. The new Keystone map looks like a huge improvement.
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Sad about Paradise at Powder Mtn. Wonder what happened.
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The main eletric drive motor failed and they have a replacement coming soon. Could powder mountain just run the backup engine until then?
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That drive is quite compact…
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That depends on their backup scenario. If the backup (whether diesel or gasoline) is a full-capacity engine, and it is connected to all the controls on the lift, they could, as long as patrol fully understands that *they* are the backup and are prepared to throw ropes if the engine fails. However, if it is designed and wired as an evacuation-only engine, then no.
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I have a video of the original drive motor:
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I think the paddle idea originally reported on is the best way to go.
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You have a video of “the sound” of the original drive motor…
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No they can not. They only have an emergency evac gas engine like most other fixed grips which moves the lift very very slowly.
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‘like to know how to run a chairlift using “long paddles.”
‘never heard of this before. It sounds inefficient and dangerous.
Elucidate.
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I was on Paradise when the fault happen. We were on hold for about 15 minutes and then evacuated using the backup diesel. People were still skiing down to it while that happened, and the last folks only got back out of it by about 16:30.
It was a electric cable fire and the motor needs to be a replaced. According to a lift maintenance guy I was on the lift with today, a new motor is already in Salt Lake City and should be installed in time for next weekend.
Btw, awesome bluebird powder day at powder mountain today, but with Paradise and the snowcat operations that depends on it, it would have been even better.
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