- Indy Pass adds Hudson Bay Mountain, BC.
- Outside talks to Indy Pass founder Doug Fish and owner Erik Mogensen about the program’s rapid growth.
- The 14 day temporary restraining order halting construction at Wasatch Peaks Ranch becomes an indefinite preliminary injunction pending a decision by the Utah Supreme Court.
- The New York Olympic Regional Development Authority plans to spend $80 to $100 million on capital improvements each of the next four years.
- The Sandia Peak Tramway will close for two months for systems upgrades and maintenance.
- A detachable chair detachment injures two in Austria.
- Ricola sponsors a new karaoke experience aboard specially outfitted gondola cabins at a Swiss resort.
- Two more lawsuits are filed against UDOT over the Little Cottonwood gondola, one by the cities of Sale Lake and Sandy and another by Save Our Canyons.
- Whistler wins the race to open Canada’s first eight seat chairlift.
- Park City postpones the public hearing for the proposed Sunrise Gondola until January.
- Reddit rumors of the demise of Panoramic Express at Winter Park aren’t true.
- Nordic Valley acknowledges the Apollo double will be down indefinitely following the discovery of several issues.
- Doppelmayr is awarded contracts worth $950 million to build, operate and maintain an automated people mover at Newark Liberty International Airport.
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Time for Apollo at Nordic Valley to go away. There are going to be some decent used lifts out there this coming year or maybe they can work out a deal with SkyTrac to replace it with something new.
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Never could understand the Nordic Valley expansion. Apollo has had issues for awhile. And who builds a 6 pack with its only access is by an old problematic double? This should be MCP #1 priority for upgrade in 2024….and before buying any other areas. But then again I’m still waiting for some $$ to be put in at Hesperus.
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IIRC the 6 pack was planned and built while MCP was working on that mega resort plan that would have Nordic Valley span all the way to North Ogden on the other side of the mountains. They wanted it to be their flagship resort, and the 6 pack plus the related terrain expansion would serve to build momentum reputation-wise.
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I think the stated goals were to be competitive with Powder Mountain and Snowbasin in (lift acceased) size and quality terrain. In the process becoming MCP’s shiny new flagship resort.
But with the purchase of Valle Nevado they have a new diamond in the rough. They’ve already stated lofty goals of French Alps sized acreage expansion and vertical approaching 10k’ summiting near 18,000′.
Even if the more insane goals never come to fruition, MCP has a new place to throw James’ $. It worries me for their “mid-tier” resorts; Lee Canyon, Hesperus, Nordic, and Willamette Pass. A new replacement lift in America just doesn’t hit like a new vertical or acreage bump in their big new hyped destination. AZ Snowbowl, Purgatory, and Brian Head could always use new stuff, but they’re all pretty well set to continue being the revenue makers.
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https://www.remontees-mecaniques.net/bdd/reportage-tsd4-larchwald-doppelmayr-4309.html
The accident occured on this lift
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