- US ski resorts report their second best season ever with 61.5 million visits.
- Colorado releases a detailed report on Winter Park’s gondola tower evener beam failure last December. Leitner-Poma will retrofit or replace similar beams on existing lifts and modify the beam’s design for future installations.
- The Kicking Horse gondola hanger failure remains under investigation but the resort will replace all hangers and not operate the gondola until mid-summer at the earliest.
- Homewood to install its D-Line gondola in 2026 after years of delays.
- McCauley Mountain to sell Hall chairs from the former Big double.
- The Covid-delayed Timber expansion at Tremblant is back on the table.
- The White Mountain National Forest seeks comments on Waterville Valley’s proposed village-to-mountain gondola.
- Eaglecrest, Alaska continues to lose money with its planned gondola still in the parking lot.
- Salt Lake Community College launches a training program for lift maintenance professionals.
- Wildcat’s Snowcat triple, which missed all of last season, to get a new haul rope, drive, controls, comm line and operator houses.
- A Park City billionaire acquires the PCMR Town Lift plaza, envisions a future gondola.
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Arapahoe Basin recently released a new master plan with plans for a new beginner area, which includes 2 new gondolas as well as a high-speed quad!
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Technically 3 gondolas.
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How 3? They just want the parking lot gondola and the wrangler gondola.
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it clearly says two gondolas, the pulse one and the detachable one.
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Sorry, must have read it wrong. I have a bad habit of skimming over things
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Yes they did, Peter did a nice write up about it below this news roundup/before releasing this news roundup.
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I just hope and pray that somehow Matthew Prince will buy Park City from Vail. He cares so much about the resort. He’d be a great steward over it. Maybe him buying the town lift plaza is a start?
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you sound like a serf begging for a handout from your feudal lord.
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fair enough! lol. Bad wording on my part. I’d just rather see a local owner who cares about the resort over Vail, who has ran a mountain I care a lot about into the ground.
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One can only hope so. I can’t ever see there being a gondola from Main Street to Solitude or Alta like he’s saying. It would upset too many people
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Well he is dreaming big, so I like that. And it would be nice if he could acquire PC from Vail but I don’t think Vail will relent right now.
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Anyone else a bit surprised that Wildcat is going to do all that work on Snowcat? For as short of a lift as it is, they could likely get a decent deal from Skytrac or a good newer used triple or quad to replace that 1974 vintage Riblet.
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Waterville’s lengthy proposal and justification for the gondola is interesting and worth reading. However, I continue to feel guests would be better served by replacing the ancient Städeli lifts, one of which dates to 1966 (thanks for the database, Peter).
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Waterville’s guests would be much happier riding the Stadeli lifts if they did not have to get into a car or a bus to ski each morning and instead ride a gondola from the village. Leave your condo, grab a coffee, get on the gondola, sip your coffee, get of the gondola, ski.
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Sounds like heaven on earth!
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It was definitely a mistake to go with the relocated fixed grip triple for Green Peak, rather than the high speed quad that was in the original proposal. It’s hard to get a sense of whether the new lift will make that triple not necessary.
While not a lift question, I do wonder what’s going on with the mothballed Sunnyside Lodge, given that they want to build one at Green Peak and another at the new lift.
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The Green Peak trail network deserves a detach. The relocated triple barely hold 3 small adults and the last time I rode it the liftie admitted it was only going 390fpm.
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Waterville Valley is correct to note that something big is needed to bring the ski resort back to its former glory (skier visits are almost a mere 50% of its early-90s highs). In the local market, Cannon is seen as more affordable while Loon is viewed as more high-end and reliable (titles that Waterville formerly held). In the broader regional market, having no Ikon or Epic affiliation hurts, and Indy visitation can only help so much.
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