- Deer Valley updates its expansion site to show Lift 6 as two detachable quads (6A and 6B) instead of a six pack with mid-station.
- Vail Mountain seeks permission to replace Orient Express #21 with a six pack, swap Little Eagle #15 for a detachable quad and remove Wapiti #24.
- Leitner-Poma discusses the impact of tariffs on the SAM huddle.
- Burke Mountain emerges from nine years of government receivership with new owners.
- Mount Saint Louis-Moonstone, Ontario teases a new era coming to the Outback side of the mountain.
- Leitner introduces its next generation monocable detachable called Ropera, combining technology from Leitner, Poma and Bartholet. The launch customer will be Speikboden, Italy with a six place chairlift.
- Leitner and Doppelmayr release annual yearbooks.
- Snoqualmie unveils new renderings of the Edelweiss project at Alpental.
- A Colorado man succumbs to injuries sustained in a fall from Keystone’s Ruby Express last December.
- Powder Mountain tells the Utah tram board it’ll install between one and four new lifts this summer.
- A jury declines to award millions to a Mt. Bachelor skier who fell getting off a chairlift.
- Killington to donate and match proceeds from closing day to Whaleback Mountain’s chairlift replacement fund.
- Snow Partners to launch a new multi-mountain pass product offering three total days at six to ten Eastern resorts.
- Mt. Ashland, Oregon looks to replace the Ariel and Windsor doubles with Skytrac triple chairs in 2026.
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Not a surprise for Orient Express at Vail. Reasonable update for Eagle, sad that Wapiti would go. Good upgrades for Mt. Ashland though. Hope they go thru.
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This is a really stupid question, but will the new Ropera system include Poma components, or will it be all Leitner?. I understand Leitner and Poma have been merged for quite some time, so it seems surprising that Poma wasn’t mentioned. Is Leitner still cranking out lifts as a standalone company?
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In Europe, Leitner is still separate.
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Leitner-Poma is strictly North American. They are seperate everywhere else
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Ah
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Bartholet components
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Just watched the promo.
It seems at first glance that Ropera is an incremental improvement on the existing Leitner platform that we still can’t get here in North America. Same Pinnafarina terminal. Same LPA grips (although the exploded view does show some components I’m not familiar with). Same terminal mechanisms as Leitner already has; the tire banks with the much-better-than-we-get-here guards, the not-available-in-North America conveyor design. They’ve borrowed some design elements from their North American subsidiary and Doppelmayr; both already use the pull-cylinder tensioning and the maintenance hatch on the back of the terminal is something my boss designed on a Uni terminal from 1994 that later became an option.
I first thought this was going to be some radical redesign, but it appears that it’ll be a marketing ploy (with a few improvements) that will only be available to their European customers. If they have indeed changed the grips, we’ll see them here at some point since HTI, like its predecessors, keeps that design proprietary.
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Very intrigued to know what MSLM is planning for the Outback side of the hill.
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I saw previous comments referencing to a Doppelmayr 6-CLD.
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If the alignment of 6a and 6b on Openskimap is the actual plan, that would be confusing. It shows a 6a alignment running right up the floor of the canyon it is in, serving no purpose other than to shuttle skiers up to 6b. Seems like it would make more sense to run it to a location where you can at least access some sort of terrain while also facilitating access to 6b, for example up towards the gondola line to get up and over back towards Mayflower.
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The alignments shown on openskimap are not correct and lift 6a will actually terminate at a spot about 1/3 of the way up the 2nd stage of the gondola, I believe in a way that’ll enable access to Mayflower. Still though, I like the original plan of a 2 stage single lift. It would’ve been nice to just ride one lift to lap all that terrain below Park Peak.
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My mistake. Should be fixed now.
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The Deer Valley map only shows 2 lifts after 25/26 but the writeup says 7 more are coming. Where will the remaining 5 be located?
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The map shows 4 lifts that aren’t being built this year.
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I had an interesting thought come up. What if Deer Valley in future years ends up replacing the 2 detachables serving the Revelator Terrain Zone with the six-pack + the mid-station that the resort was originally intending to install? Those 2 lifts would be relocated to either serve other parts of the expansion (post-2026) and/or replace other lifts in DV’s existing fleet.
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While that is a good idea and I like it but if they were to do the original plan of a 2 stage 6CLD-B that would be way more expensive then two 4CLD. The thought about moving brand new lifts to another place on the mountain like where the future areas are is a nice idea. But it’d be really time consuming. they’d have to take apart the entire lift piece by piece. It’s a nice thought tho
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Hey Peter. Just to let you know, the search bar for most recent addons is not working. It is showing Galena Express as most recently added.
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If you look on Google Earth right now, you can see the outline of the East Village Gondola. It even looks like the top on bottom terminals are complete along with some foundations. if you can get up there, please bless us with some construction photos this Summer Peter!
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