Lift Blog

• Deer Valley initiates construction on Lifts 2, 3 and 4A with the rest of Expanded Excellence lifts in final engineering and procurement.
• Detroit Mountain’s mountain biking lift goes down for the much of June due to a mechanical problem.
• Proponents of the Cascade Skyline Gondola project criticize British Columbia’s slow approval process.
• Snowbird and Jackson Hole both offer very expensive chairs with portions going to charity.
• Doppelmayr introduces an underground vertical ropeway for the mining industry.
• The American company which owns the Banff Gondola acquires the Jasper SkyTram from the Canadian firm that owns Marmot Basin for CA$25 million.
• The Department of Justice seeks information on Alterra’s proposed purchase of Arapahoe Basin.