- The nonprofit that operates Big Moose Mountain, Maine seeks to buy the resort.
- Local Boulder investors are interested in purchasing Eldora.
- The Seattle Times looks at why Riblets are slowly being retired across the Pacific Northwest.
- A remarkable $145 million 3S gondola opens in France.
- One of La Grave’s most popular lifts will be closed for a month or longer after an inspection finds an in-season rope change is needed.
- The world’s steepest aerial tram launches in Switzerland.
- A child is injured falling from a lift at Mt. Ski Gull, Minnesota.
- Multiple people fall from the Beaver Run SuperChair at Breckenridge.
- The new Black Bear 6 is rope evacuated at Camelback, Pennsylvania.
- Doppelmayr USA appoints former DPS Skis President and CEO Alex Adema as Vice President of Sales, promotes Shawn Marquardt to Senior Director of Sales.
- Leitner-Poma and Skytrac celebrate on time completion of 22 projects before the Christmas holiday.
- Gondolas are staging a comeback at theme parks, zoos and fairs.
- The Sky Cab gondola at Snowmass could be replaced and repurposed to run from the town center to base village.
- Brush cutting in the area of a possible future Lower Faces lift at Jackson Hole riles conservation groups.
- Skytrac is the low bidder to replace Gore Mountain’s Topridge triple and move the old lift to Mt. Van Hoevenberg.
- Thanks to reader Tyler for these pictures of the five new chairlifts in Deer Valley’s East Village.
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Wow DV even painted the chairs green.
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The D-Line look-alike Uni-G at Deer Valley is actually pretty sharp, hopefully we’ll see more of those for smaller sized lifts in the future.
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The new 3S Jandri Express is an incredible machine, but the DMC it replaced was very impressive as well.
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Here’s the stretch of the Beaver Run SuperChair where both of these incidents with boarders falling from the chairs happened.
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These incidents seem to be a case of user error, as I think was also the case with the Ruby Express incident.
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Interesting article there in the Times. Quotes my former boss extensively.
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Also quotes Mr lift blog himself. Wish I had gotten a vintage Baker chair for 35 bucks!
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Guess you had to be there….
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Peter, Deer Valley is only opening three lifts this year. 6 next year. The three this year are Keetly, Aurora and Hoodoo
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Correct, but they are completing five lifts. Two are not expected to open until next winter. My sources indicate next summer will see eight lifts constructed for a total of 13 in two years.
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is that… The most in NA in a comparable timeframe, ever?
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Snowmass Village is not looking to extend the Skycab – it’s not really possible the way base Village is designed. The idea is to replace Skycab (hopefully with a detachable gondola vs pulse), and repurpose/relocate the existing lift to serve the Base Village / Town Center connection
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For the Deer Valley Photos
That Fixed Grip in Deer Valley is the first in America to feature the current EU version of the EJ Chair, that style of E Chair was first introduced in 1995 BTW
3rd HSQ in America with the Auto Bar without footrests
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