- Aspen Mountain’s Lift One project inches closer to reality.
- Aspen Skiing Company reports skier visits declined 2.3 percent last season.
- Colorado as a whole reports its second best season ever, down five percent from last year’s record.
- New Hampshire was down four percent.
- Vail Resorts reports a 5 percent increase in lift revenue but a 7.7 percent decline in visits with season pass unit sales down 5 percent for next season.
- Colorado’s Estes Park Tram reopens after an extended closure.
- Nordic Valley works to reactivate Apollo, which missed last season.
- Legoland New York’s new 10 passenger gondola to open June 24th.
- A Park City resident files an appeal of Deer Valley’s Lift 7 approval.
- Sun Peaks flies towers for the new West Bowl Express.
- Leitner’s 2023 annual report is out highlighting global projects.
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Hopefully the Lift 7 approval goes through and doesn’t turn into another Silverlode/Eagle situation.
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What is it with people in Park City and having to fight any and all development? It’s just about the most infuriating thing ever. Lift 7 is literally not even near ANY houses or anything at all for that matter, and yet still some crotchety resident has to take issue with it.
At this point I can’t even imagine how the Snow Park village is ever going to get built if they can barely get one lift approved out in the middle of nowhere.
I seriously hope the appeal board comes to their senses and doesn’t acquiesce once again to these insane NIMBYs.
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I know right! At this rate, Snow Park and Expanded Excellence should be finished by 2100-01! At least most of Expanded Excellence is outside of Park City, and out of reach of those NIMBYs.
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It feels like Park City is intent on self-sabotage. It’s kind of crazy. At this point I’m convinced that Eagle/Silverlode won’t go through for like 10+ years until something major changes.
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This appeal is different about the Park City lifts. Here, an adjacent landowner is trying to force Deer Valley to expand the Lift 7 pod onto their land, presumably so that they can then collect rent from Deer Valley.
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When do you plan to go to Legoland to take pictures of the gondola?
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https://www.instagram.com/p/C77NMnEunhB/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
Its official!!!
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Peter, did you hear Gore’s Gondola is getting new cabins this summer?
NEW NORTHWOODS GONDOLA CABINS FOR THE 2024-25 SNOW SEASON
We are replacing all of our Northwoods Gondola cabins! These new 8-passenger cabins will have ski racks to accommodate modern, wider-diameter skis and snowboards better.
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Peter, when do you plan on getting pictures of the Wasatch Peaks Ranch lifts? Are you able to or have you tried in the past and they won’t allow you to?
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There may not be pictures on here, but there are some laying around on the internet.
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Here’s some more pictures of the lifts at Wasatch Peaks Ranch:
And here’s some more info on Wasatch Peaks Ranch: LPOA partners with Wasatch Peaks Ranch (youtube.com)
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Does anybody know anything more about 6 shooter going to sugarloaf. I absolutely love that mountain and would like to know more about this Thanks!
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I believe it’s replacing Timberline.
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Why does Sugarloaf only get used detachables now a days (They got the old Swift Current for Bucksaw and now there getting the old Six Shooter to possibly replace Timberline)? Also, how is Sugarloaf gonna refurbish a 2003 Doppelmayr (Garaventa). CTEC high speed six pack to look like a brand new UNI-G?
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Used lifts are generally cheaper, so Sugarloaf probably just doesn’t want to spend too much money on lifts and focus on other things.
Re-skinning a terminal isn’t too hard, you just need to take off the original skin and replace it with a newer skin. Doppelmayr will probably just send the parts for the Uni-G terminal skin and install it on Six Shooter.
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well, they refurbished bucksaw which was a 1995 doppelmayr, and they put a charkit loading carpet, doppelmayr connect controls, new sheave trains, new towers, new skins, and used chairs. If they can reskin swifty then they can definitely do six shooter because it is more modern
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Drive bull wheel left on a 18-wheeler from Big Sky this morning. most of the lift is already at Sugarloaf now.
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But this is a Stealth III were refurbishing and not a Spacejet. Would Doppelmayr be willing to refurbish a Stealth? The contours aren’t a complete U shape unlike the Spacejet, could Doppelmayr build custom UNI-G terminals without the complete U shape (If you understand what I’m saying)?
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Also considering Boyne owns Sugarloaf, I don’t understand why Boyne wouldn’t want to be building D-Line lifts there because thats what Boyne has been building at all of their resorts (they consider D-Line lifts “lifts of the future”)?
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Boyne is a business. They spend money to earn more money. Sixer being refurbished will cost a fraction of what a new D-Line would and will do everything Sugarloaf needs it to.
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I don’t know why Boyne would even bother reskinning 6 Shooter considering the Stealth III terminals still looks sharp, modern and matchs the two other Stealth II terminals they already have there. Also all of the complaining about Boyne sending over a refurbished lift is insanity, it’s a modern quick, high capacity lift that 95% of resorts in North America could only dream of getting.
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I’m with Ty. From what I understand, when they refurbish lifts, they extend their lifespan significantly, and while it’s not quite “good as new,” it’s damn close.
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on top of that, Sox shooter wasn’t replaced because it was worn out, but because they needed a capacity upgrade. The original Six-Shooter design had a slight bend to avoid Boyne owned land, and as a result could only have so many chairs/line weight and could only run at a slightly reduced speed. Also, the Moonlight area hasn’t been a focus of summer operations since Big Sky aquired it.
It was an obvious replacement need for Big Sky without just being old.
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The skin is only getting a new paint job. Note, in the G-CTEC Stealth series lifts the skin is part of the structure of the terminal and aids in stiffening said structure.
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I don’t think it needs a new skin, the Stealth III is just fine.
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