- Homewood to reopen next season but its D-Line gondola delivered in 2023 won’t be installed this summer.
- Powdr abandons plans to sell Mt. Bachelor.
- Powdr’s sale of Eldora is said to be in the final stages.
- Le Massif, Quebec signs on to the Ikon Pass.
- New details emerge from the antitrust case against the owner of Song Mountain and Labrador Mountain, New York; he plans to appeal.
- Whaleback, New Hampshire looks toward a new chairlift.
- Sun Valley seeks to be removed from a lawsuit filed by a homeowner regarding the placement of the new Flying Squirrel quad.
- Stratton’s American Express closes early and will reopen for summer later than normal for a major systems modernization.
- The Forest Service approves Steamboat to replace Sunshine Express with a six pack.
- The world’s second largest gondola network is proposed in India with 15 stations and 660 cabins.
- If Bluewood, Washington can’t complete its planned relocation of a used high speed quad from Austria next season, it will keep its Borvig lift and credit passholders $100.
- The US government implements a blanket 20% tariff on goods from the European Union and 31% on products from Switzerland, both major source regions for lift components.
- Skeetawk, Alaska works to repair its only chairlift but snow may run out first.
- Arctic Valley, Alaska’s T-Bar will be inoperable the rest of the season due to an incident damaging the haul rope.
- Holiday Mountain, New York looks to reopen long lost terrain with a third chairlift.
- Alta to realign Supreme this summer, re-doing every foundation and re-using towers and terminals.
- Castle Mountain’s expansion lift to be called Stagecoach Express.
- The owner of Berkshire East and Catamount would operate Burke Mountain under a proposed sale to local investors. The group also plans to refurbish the J-Bar and relocate Willoughby if the sale goes through.
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any ideas about why bachelor sale is off the table? I also wonder about a sale of silver star. Seems like just a few years ago it was a total sellers market for ski areas
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Good for Bluewood. Seems like their new GM is injecting a lot of energy into the place, while still keeping its soul. I’m excited to ski their new lift.
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So why can’t bluewood remove skyline next year.
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Because then it would be in the way of the new lift.
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Not that I want to talk politics here, but who of the manufacturers are mostly exposed to these tariffs in the short term? I would guess Skytrac is best off, then Leitner-Poma America and then Doppelmayr USA (looks like alot of imported steel-towers and technical components from new lift pictures)?
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Tariffs mostly back off again. We’ll see what happens next week.
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Neat thing with the transport of the mountain cart.
I’ve been thinking about a similair solution for a Bobsleigh track next to the ski slope; that the gondola could have a stop at the beginning and the end of the track and thus have a solution for transporting the bobsleigh back up after having gone down.
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