- Aspen Mountain’s Lift 1A goes down and is rope evacuated.
- Aspen closes redundant lifts midweek due to low ridership.
- The next lift upgrades at Snowmass will be Coney Express followed by Cirque and potentially another lift at the same time.
- Multiple homeowner associations sue Deer Valley, arguing an East Village-Snow Park gondola won’t mitigate traffic.
- Magic Mountain successfully load tests the new Black Line Quad.
- Ski Santa Fe will self install its high speed quad this summer, then look at replacing Easy Street.
- Sugarloaf opens West Mountain with a high speed quad and nine new trails.
- Deer Mountain, South Dakota reopens as a private ski area.
- The new Telluride-Mountain Village gondola will likely be a 10 passenger model with direct drive.
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Interesting that Snowmass is building the Coney Express next season yet closing the current Coney lift midweek this season.
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What’s interesting about it? That SkiCo can try to save some operating expenses in a down year, yet still keep a longview with the capital budget?
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Way too many NIMBY’s in Park City with too much money at disposal to cause rucus.
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Yup, this is common in most resort towns. In Aspen we’ve been fighting over an Entrance to Aspen redesign since the mid-90’s. Many studies, several votes, and some lawsuits later, nothing has been done and the situation continues to get worse as the only bridge going into/out of town is approaching its end-of-life. I suspect it’ll get much worse before it gets better
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Not really lift-related, but I’m still curious. I thought CDOT had replaced the old Midland railroad bridge (which was the Highway 82 bridge) relatively recently. I remember construction going on in the late 2000s. The old railroad/highway bridge was turned into a bike/pedestrian bridge, I had thought.
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Yes, that was the Maroon Creek Bridge. The Castle Creek Bridge is the one I’m talking about. It is closer to town. For context and info:
https://www.aspen.gov/275/Entrance-to-Aspen
https://www.codot.gov/projects/archived-project-sites/SH82/entrance-to-aspen
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Copy that. Kinda forgot about that one.
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that was a cool video about the Leitner direct drive and frequency stuff, and yeah!
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Rumor around the ‘Loaf is that part of the reason it took so long to get Bucksaw Express open is that some of the sheaves were installed on the wrong towers, and it wasn’t caught until the first test runs… oops!
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I was at magic today and they were running the black to bring the load test barrels back and then after just to get hours on it.
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Is Coney Glade the last Poma detach with the separate alpha drive structure still operating? I believe it is the oldest Poma detach still operating.
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In the U.S.? I believe the only ones remaining are Coney Glade plus the Zephyr Express on the west side of Hunter Mountain in Upstate New York, which was originally installed in 1987 on the front side of Hunter as the Snowlite Express. So yes, Coney Glade is the oldest Poma detach still operating. Sad to see her go.
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