- Shuttered Sleeping Giant, Wyoming is listed for $500,000.
- Ariel at Mt. Ashland will open weeks late due to a tree strike.
- New York’s Olympic Regional Development Authority plans $70 to $155 million in capital spending annually for the next four years.
- Big Tupper’s new owners plan to reactivate at least one lift.
- Chicopee, Ontario’s new trail map shows a new lift his season on the front side and a backside expansion next year.
- Snowmass’ new map shows the new Coney Express with mid-station.
- Public tax dollars will fund a portion of lifts in Deer Valley’s East Village.
- Google abruptly removes tens of thousands of lifts from Google Maps.
- Grouse Mountain’s newest ropeway to be called Blue Grouse Gondola.
- Jay Peak nears replacing Bonaventure with a detachable quad; no West Bowl expansion any time soon.
- Powder Mountain CEO Reed Hastings talks about skiing as a subscription like Netflix, privatizing half the mountain and skiing as a real estate play.
- A gondola system is the preferred alternative for a transit corridor in Oshawa, Ontario.
- Vail Resorts readies its second D-Line detachable at Perisher.
- Belleayre’s Catskill Thunder Gondola is rope evacuated, will be down until further notice for repairs.
- The tram that crashed last month in Val Thorens will miss the entire season, photos show why.
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If you’re looking for an alternative to Google Maps for your lift mapping pleasure, I use OpenStreetMap. It doesn’t map ski runs to my knowledge, but it maps a lot that you wouldn’t normally expect on a map, including lifts and even major powerlines. OSM maps are entirely community-contributed, and some generous soul has already mapped Coney Express in its new alignment, for example.
Even though I don’t use Google Maps, I still hope they bring back lifts.
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https://openskimap.org/
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An even better tool is OpenSkiMap, https://openskimap.org/, which is based on OpenStreetMap data and has coverage for, as far as I can tell, basically every ski area in the world.
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In regards to Google removing ski lifts and runs from Google Maps, for those who might not know, Google allows its employees to spend 15% of their work week to explore their own interest and hobbies as long as it benefits the company. The person who brainstormed and managed this ‘hobby/interest’ either no longer works for Google or lost interest in his side hobby and moved on to other things as it was becoming a hassle to manage/update and no one wanted to assume this side role. Therefore, the entire thing was killed vs leaving how it was.
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If I remember right, the old Sublette was for sale. Did anyone buy it?
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Parts of it went to Maverick Mountain, along with Gent’s Ridge from Aspen. They plan to use both to create one new lift.
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Wow, that’s cool. To replace the current one or expand to new terrain?
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Probably replace.
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In the ORDA document it said that they would replace Gore’s Lift 10. That’s Topridge, right?
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Yes
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Fun Fact: A long time ago, there was once streetview ski run coverage for most resorts but some got removed, I Remember that Sun Peaks, Big White, Silver Star, Fernie, Kimberley, Revelstoke, and even Powder King had streetview coverage but they have been removed sadly
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just part of the ongoing enshittification of all online apps
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Getting a spiderhoe into Alta Zero for that tower is seriously impressive. That’s incredible skill by the operator.
Sublette is by far the best chair at Jackson, and I’m excited for the new version.
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That was a GREAT video, thanks for sharing it.
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Agreed! Great video. The only negative was no appearance, or even cameo, of our favorite blogger ;-)
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Peter. I heard that Sublette is built with six pack terminals. Do you know why this is the case?
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Wind?
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The lift has six pack width line gauge for wind reasons.
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The deciding factor for the larger terminals was having a ring & pinion evacuation system on the new Sublette in case of gearbox failure, which was only offered in LPoA’s larger terminals. A wider line gauge allowing for more chair swing in the wind was an additional benefit.
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The new 6 pack at Perisher is the first D-line at an Australian ski resort Peter, the current 8 seater is a Uni G and was built before D-lines were introduced :)
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I believe you may have misunderstood.. it’s Vail Resorts’ second overall D-Line (the first being Fitzsimmons at Whistler). He wasn’t specifying 2nd D-Line at Perisher specifically, but rather portfolio-wide, from what I can tell.
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It’s the second D-Line for Vail Resorts is what I was trying to say.
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Drayton Valley ski hill in Alberta is permanently shutting down and liquidating all assets.
https://www.facebook.com/DVBSC
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Sad :(
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