- Mt. Ashland reopens on the tree-damaged Ariel double, opens one of the first all-electric chairlifts in the country.
- Sugarbush explains what’s going on with five lifts that have either gone down or not opened yet this season.
- California OSHA tells me it won’t investigate the lift incident that hospitalized five people at Heavenly because most of the Comet Express is in Nevada, including where the collision occurred.
- Whitefish is without Chair 2 while a systems modernization is completed.
- Black Mountain, New Hampshire seeks to raise $5 million to form a co-op.
- Winter Park reopens The Gondola just 48 hours after last week’s tower crack.
- Construction begins on a third Mexicable line in Greater Mexico City with 10 stations and 278 cabins at a cost of $149 million.
- A tower collapses on a fair chairlift in Mexico during operations.
- The Chondola at Telluride is rope evacuated.
- Alpental’s new Internationale chair opened today but was offloaded on auxiliary shortly thereafter due to a mechanical issue. “Our lift maintenance team is working with Doppelmayr and plans to complete full diagnostics and testing in the morning, with the goal of reopening the lift tomorrow once we are 100% satisfied we’ve eliminated all potential issues,” says The Summit.
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With respect to the first picture on the Sugarbush blog, those punji sticks the rider just rode by are the reason I STF out of the woods.
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Eagle Peak Accelerator has been an all electric since original installation, Evac source is an electric motor (GE).
https://liftblog.com/eagle-peak-accelerator-willamette-pass-or/
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Rotten luck for Sugarbush. I hope they are able to get things resolved as quickly as they can.
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Some speculation the Alpental issue was related to actions committed by a joint effort of anti development eco activists Alpental Liberation Front and the Free Alpental Resistance Team.
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Not investigating an accident that required a helicopter to come to Heavenly is just insane from Nevada.
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Who would investigate it? They don’t have an aerial lift inspector thingie. I wonder if they have an amusement park ride inspection team given the number of amusement ride attractions in Nevada.. Perhaps aerial lifts could fall within that team?
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The USFS is the authority having jurisdiction in this case. They are the permit administrator. The USFS requires a third party ANSI based lift inspection prior to each operating season. The USFS has a couple of tramway specialists in the western region. The USFS will have the final say on when the lift can open to the public. This usually revolves around recommendations from the manufacture and or third party engineers – tramway specialists.
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