- Vail Resorts reaches an agreement with Crested Butte lift mechanics, averting a strike.
- A window falls from a cabin on Stowe’s Mansfield Gondola during operations.
- Mission Ridge acknowledges three different chairs have detached this season from Chair 4, a 1971 Riblet double (all empty and no injuries).
- Waterville Valley completes a midseason splice on the High Country T-Bar.
- A new owner looks to reopen Crystal Mountain, BC via crowdfunding.
- Winter Park’s High Lonesome Express is back after a four week maintenance closure.
- Still no Slide Brook Express at Sugarbush but hopefully soon.
- The Glade Triple at Catamount will miss the rest of the season.
- Badger Pass, California won’t open this season.
- Ditto for Cedar Pass, also in California.
- Park City gets serious about a gondola connecting Main Street to Deer Valley.
- President Trump imposes 25 percent tariffs on steel and aluminum imports with potential impacts on lift manufacturers.
- The US Forest Service, landlord to 124 ski areas, lays off 3,400 employees.
- A bipartisan group of Senators sponsor a bill that would direct the Forest Service retain some of the fees resorts pay to the federal government for ski purposes, such as processing resort improvement projects.
- The gondola in Moab, Utah which sat for 25 years without ever opening, is finally being removed.
- Solitude demystifies lift maintenance for customers.
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Source about the Moab gondola
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Never mind found a source. A little disappointed to find out it is going. But at least the land is going to be conserved and turned back to its natural state.
https://www.reddit.com/r/moab/comments/1i9dqjm/whats_going_on_at_the_old_gondola_site/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
RIP Gondo. It was a unique lift.
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Will some parts for the Moab Gondola be Salvageable?
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Everything was in pretty rough shape so it likely went to scrap. Some of the cabins that were not too badly vandalized might sell to private parties.
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not surprised about mission ridge chair 4. I used to coach special Olympics ski racing on that chair during the state games. I’ve never been on a chairlift that swung and bounced as much as that one. It was always a major concern for the participants. I know a lot of people like the old riblets but maybe it’s time to retire them and install skytracs. Cue the Riblet defenders…..
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Lol, Vail……
I know everyone has been bashing them with all of the lift maintenance issues and accidents this year…but seriously, I feel like they’re kind of asking for it at this point. I’m just happy to hear (and a bit surprised) that the piece of glass didn’t fall on a skier / rider below…
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You can add Pioneer lift at Park City which has been accruing 100% downtime since its usual opening day around December 15-20.
Epic!!!!
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Not really. Supposedly the issue there is because of a tower fault, which could mean they will have to wait until summer to address it further. Could mean they have to remove the tower and put in a new foundation and yadda yadda.
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Nope, tower is fine, issue is inside the motor room :)
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Please share what you know, (and are able to share) it will be helpful to those curious. Last we heard it was a tower fault discovered last year and that was it. Not surprised this got put on the back burner though for repairs.
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Add this one to the list, lift still closed
https://www.firemarshal.dos.nh.gov/news-and-media/investigation-continues-chairlift-malfunction-ski-resort
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There is no info on why this happened. Moderate application of a ski boot is enough to push a window out. Or pop it enough that it falls out later.
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