- Vail Resorts reports skier visits down 3.1%, lift revenue up 3.4%, ski school revenue up 2.7%, dining up 2.2% and retail/rental down 4.0% with pass sales for next year down slightly in units.
- Burke Mountain to be sold to Bear Den Partners for $11.5 million.
- Park City explores possible routes for a Main Street-Deer Valley gondola.
- Ski Utah continues advocating for a Little Cottonwood gondola.
- Telluride seeks approval for yet-to-be-specified projects from its master plan.
- Boyne launches two multi-resort pass products good at all their resorts.
- Local artists to transform Park City Sunrise chairs into works of art to be auctioned for charity.
- Italy opens a criminal investigation into last week’s fatal tram incident involving a haul rope failure and track rope brake failure on one of two cabins.
- Steeplechase, Minnesota turns to crowdfunding to finance expansion.
- Leitner-Poma Canada is hiring lift installers for a project at Whitewater, BC.
- Loveland to operate the new Lift 7 quad as a triple.
- Killington is full steam ahead on Superstar replacement.
- Red Lodge Mountain begins repairing the chairlift involved in a fatal incident last month.
- Palisades Tahoe invites local high school students on mountain operations tours to aid with recruitment.
Lift Blog 
‘At the end of each tour, students are asked to share their favorite stop of the day.
“Most of them say the back machinery room of the Funitel,” Roske said. ‘
Me too, kids, Me too :)
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I went on one of the work tours last year as a student in NTHS engineering 2 class, and the Funitel was definitely the highlight. The motor and electrical control rooms were incredible and we were able to climb up into the deceleration bank and watch the cabins arrive. Other interesting parts was getting a lift control software overview and demonstration from the resident head engineer, going inside the KT midstation of the Base 2 Base, and seeing all three floors of the Base 2 Base parking barn on the Alpine side and a overview of their NDT process for the Base 2 Base grips. All of this among other stops.
Also the breakfast at the beginning was nice, they make good coffee and breakfast sandwiches. We also got free resort food for lunch.
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I wonder if the lift at Whitewater is Backside 2. That was referenced as one of the next lift upgrades in their 2019 Master Plan addendum. If it is, that would be a big deal––and include 500 acres of additional terrain.
https://skiwhitewater.com/site/assets/files/5309/wh20_master_plan_addendum_2019_final_1.pdf
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It seems that it would be BS2 or Silver King 3.0. I am not sure if any project would be done this year though, as there have been no announcements, and ski season is already over. We will see what happens over the summer. If there will be a new lift, it might have to be a 2026 project.
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The job posting was made in error. No new lift at Whitewater this year.
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Too bad. Maybe soon.
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