- Vail Resorts reports a 0.3% decline in North American skier visits through 1/5 with revenue up 4.5%, ski school up 1.1%, dining up 6.6% and retail/rental down 5.4%.
- Park City offers guests who visited during the patrol strike partial credit toward a season pass next year.
- Park City businesses report a drop in business following the patrol strike.
- Kimberley, BC’s Tamarack chair goes down for awhile.
- Another snowboarder falls from a lift in Colorado – this time at Copper.
- A man who fell from Willamette Pass’ Peak 2 triple in high winds seeks $3.6 million in damages.
- Europeans poke fun at the lack of bars on lifts and Americans’ refusal to use them on lifts that are equipped.
- A trial in British Columbia finds proper signage increases bar use dramatically.
- The Atlantic runs a story on ski industry consolidation, labor relations and cheap season passes.
- Mt. Hood Meadows provides an update on Heather Canyon, which has yet to open this season.
- An Alaska windstorm blows a lift shack over on one lift and sends a chair into the bullwheel on another at Arctic Valley.
- Sugarbush apologizes for not having Castlerock and Slide Brook operable at this point in the season.
- Leaders approve a large development at Nordic Valley, Utah; likely to coincide with a new out-of-base lift.
- The municipality of Whistler to study a valley gondola transit line.
- Castle Mountain seeks a name for its first high speed quad.
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Kimberley seems to have bad luck regarding lifts in recent seasons, especially with everything that’s happened with Northstar. Hope they can get this lift up and running soon.
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Comfort bars are like Boa: there is no convincing the other side to reconsider their position, whichever side you’re on. I wish people would stop trying.
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When I see the number of reports of people falling of a chair in the US compared to those in the German speaking world (which is a much bigger skiing market) I get the impression that they help quite a lot. We see occasional report of people falling out of a chair, but most of the time it’s kids at load time where the fall is mostly harmless. On the other hand just all the falls I read about here on liftblog sum up quickly. But I’d really love to see numbers and not just anecdotes.
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Except BOAs are something you have to buy; putting down the bar is something you do for free that is already there.
Seriously, what is the issue? Y’all drive without the seat belt aswell?
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Hm. I feel like you’re at least supporting my point. I didn’t state for or against, just that it’s all yelling back and forth. It feels like the pro-Boa and pro-bar-down arguments are YOU’RE WRONG THIS IS THE ONLY OPTION and the anti- are DON’T TELL ME WHAT TO DO I’M A MAVERICK. No real exchange there.
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