- Park City’s patrol strike ends after 12 days; Vail apologizes to guests and a class action lawsuit is filed.
- Spirit Mountain, Minnesota solicits bids to replace Gandy with a quad this summer.
- Bald Mountain, Idaho may not open this season due to inability to secure insurance.
- Leitner-Poma President Daren Cole joins Banff Sunshine’s podcast to discuss the Super Angel Express and lift business more broadly.
- A sit skier who fell from Winter Park’s Explorer Express and was seriously injured files suit.
- Pursuit completes its acquisition of the Jasper SkyTram.
- Saskadena Six, Vermont will not operate Chair Two this season, looks at a replacement.
- Eaglecrest, Alaska continues to look toward a sightseeing gondola to subsidize its money-losing ski operation.
- Killington’s Superstar six pack will cost $12.16 million,
- Mt. Bachelor plans several enhancements to the Northwest Express.
- Sugarbush to bring in additional staff from across Alterra to try and get non-functional lifts open.
- Four Seasons, New York is listed for sale.
- Sandia Peak proposes replacing Chair 1.
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Bald mtn at Sun Valley has been open since Thanksgiving.
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Different Bald Mountain, Idaho
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Northwest getting a new electric motor should hopefully mean a lot less reliance on the diesel.
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As per the article: “Nobody wins in a strike.”
What?? That is so insulting to everyone who was not only on strike, but on the hill stuck in line for a chairlift. At this point, everyone knows that Park City tried to union bust ski patrol as best they could, and shut the doors on them for 9 months straight, possibly waiting for their poor actions to “succeed” during the busiest time of the year? LOL, the blame is completely on Park City, and they clearly don’t take any accountability for it at all.
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Given the price elasticity of what VR is selling and the ready availability of substitutes you HAVE to provide the service. Period. The union knew this which is why they didn’t back down. Patrollers are also in short supply so they have the leverage. It was only a matter of time before VR caved. No one that went to PCMR over Christmas is ever coming back unless they own real estate there. Terrible management on the part of VR.
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in the documents subimitted to VT for Superstar, they talk about a lift replacement at Pico. Which one?
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I believe that’s in reference to replacing Bonanza with a conveyor next summer.
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Are all bubbles with heated chairs 6s or 8s? Or are there any examples of smaller 2s with these amenities aswell?
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Tee Pee Town LX at Sunshine Village, AB is a Doppelmayr quad with bubbles and heated seats. There’s almost certainly several examples of other quads with those features in Europe.
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Heated seats have been around since the early 2000s, this was around the time that European ski areas pivoted to building six-and-eight seater’s rather than quads.
There were still a good number of quads with bubbles & heated seats built in Europe, but the vast majority were the bigger chairs.
In the US market, bubbles / heated seats were such rare features that they didn’t really get built (aside from a random assortment at PCMR / Okemo / Private ski areas) on a regular basis until the late 2010s. With the exception of Wasatch Peaks Ranch, I can’t think of a US ski area that has recently built a bubble quad, let alone one with heated seats.
Some double bubbles were built over the years, but I doubt any of them ever had heated seats.
https://www.skiresort.info/ski-resort/kiroro/ski-lifts/l100901/
https://www.skiresort.info/ski-resort/skiwelt-wilder-kaiser-brixental/ski-lifts/l1760/
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While > 4 seats are probably the majority for heated seats, I would not call it the vast majority. Plenty of older quads in Europe got retrofitted with heated seats years after they were built as well. Also there’s a lot of bubble chairs of any seating capacity without heated seats (maybe less for 8 packs). And of course there’s gondola cabins with heated seats as well.
Out of the handful of bubble doubles I road in Europe and Japan none had heated seats.
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Nice. Good to know, thanks!
More resorts in cold climes should really invest in these. Maybe more people will come in December, January & February if they can warm up when in the lift.
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Just what we need. more crowded resorts.
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