- Skytrac modernizes a Hall double at Snow Trails, Ohio.
- Arapahoe Basin eyes transport gondolas and a new chairlift.
- Arkansas may get its first lift.
- Black Mountain, New Hampshire will operate this season after all with support from Indy Pass.
- Residents seek a restraining order to halt construction at Wasatch Peaks Ranch.
- Quebec’s government pours cold water on funding Mont-Sainte-Anne upgrades with Resorts of the Canadian Rockies.
- Big White teases future lift and terrain expansion.
- Cannon Mountain’s tram modernization will go out to bid soon.
- Okanagan Gondola eyes a 2025 opening.
- More expansion maps are out: Sugarloaf, Keystone, Schweitzer, Red Lodge, Trollhaugen.
- Okemo seeks a five year extension on approval of a Jackson Gore beginner quad.
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Very cool about seeing the hall double “modernized” That is something we won’t see much of.
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What does modernizing entail and what’s the motivation to do so? Upgrading drive, controls and safety systems is pretty common for reliability reasons but they do not appear to be part of the project at Snow Trails. I’m struggling to see the value of replacing a bull wheel and counterweight..
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The previous fly over arrangement caused skires to ski off to the left only as the chair clearance prevented them from going right, the new arrangement is a bullwheel unload allows both.
Ultimately piecemeal modernizing (Phased lift replacement in Skytrac lingo) allows the capital outlay to match the ability of the resort to afford it; In other words, a phased replacement lets the resort improve the performance and/or the reliability of a lift without the large capital outlay of a new lift.
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To piggyback off of this, we delt with a lot of kids trying to be cool and ski off to the right, which presented its own issues. Also, with the previous counterweight set up, on busy days when the chair was fully loaded and stopped it bounced quite a bit.
All around this will be a great improvement for the area.
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For anyone interested, new maps are out for Boyne Mountain and Highlands too:
Click to access Highlands-Trail-Map-23-24.pdf
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working link for the Boyne Mountain one because I’m an idiot and pasted it wrong
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=697935202374848&set=a.550533400448363
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