- Alterra details its 2024 capital plan, totaling $300+ million with six new chairlifts.
- Following yesterday’s announcement of three new lifts this year, Deer Valley also outlines the seven detachable lifts opening in 2025 for a total of 10 in two years (counting the two section gondola as two.)
- A presentation details massive construction underway at Deer Valley.
- Deer Valley will hold an open house to update the community on construction and future plans next Thursday.
- Park City continues to explore a gondola connection from Main Street to Deer Valley.
- Speaking of megaprojects, here are some unofficial photos of the two D-Line gondolas with six total stations under construction at Big Sky.
- The world’s largest indoor ski area opens near Shanghai with a detachable chairlift and gondola from Poma.
- Parks Canada approves the Banff Gondola owner’s purchase of the Jasper SkyTram.
- A Swiss newspaper reports Alterra may be as interested as Vail in acquiring Swiss resorts.
- Vail Resorts to report earning September 26th, traditionally when lift projects are announced for the following year.
- Vail to sell Wildcat Express gondola cabins, run only chairs in the future.
- Solitude will auction 29 chairs from the Moonbeam quad, which operated only four years.
- Wachusett orders a Doppelmayr UNI-G six pack to replace the Polar Express.
- A rider is injured and airlifted after falling while boarding Schweitzer’s Great Escape Quad.
- Five years since the Sea to Sky Gondola‘s haul rope was first cut and four years since it was cut again, police are still looking for the perpetrator(s).
- Maintenance workers on London’s IFS Cloud Cable Car plan a strike.
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I really don’t buy that Alterra’s $300 million figure here is a CY2024 figure. It feels like their release includes a number of projects (like Mountain Commons at Crystal) that were announced in previous “total invested” press releases.
It doesn’t matter that much. But I think it should give some pause when comparing across ownership groups. It’s probably not apples-to-apples.
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On the Mexi cable transportation system, how offen is it shit down do too wind or lightning?Thanks Artski Sexauer
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I skied Solitude pretty much every year from about 1998-2009 and I for some reason don’t remember Moonbeam ever being a quad. I remember as a kid wondering why it was called Moonbeam II, which I now know the Thiokol triple was the second chair in that alignment. I remember going there and seeing that they’d taken the “II” off the chair, but never put together that it was a new chair and a quad.
Solitude has made some lift choices that I definitely don’t love.
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So, it looks like Deer Valley scrapped the idea of the 3 stage gondola with the third section connecting from the peak to Silver Lake?
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As I understand it, it was never going to be a 3 stage gondola. The East Village gondola, which is being built next summer, will be 2 stages up to Park Peak. Then the plan is to replace Silver Lake Express with another 2 stage gondola, going from Snow Park, mid station in Silver Lake, and up to Park Peak. So it would be in total a 4 stage gondola when complete.
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Yep, you’re right. My bad. I was thinking it was a 3 stage for the one coming up from the new base. I just searched and found the other plans.
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