- The first towers and top terminal are set for the new gondola in Idaho Springs, Colorado, which will feature 22 cabins and North America’s first five Bike Cabs.
- Winter Park’s proposed town gondola secures local approval.
- Also at Winter Park, a draft Forest Service decision green lights removal of Looking Glass, replacement of Gemini, Discovery and Endeavour as well as construction of the Copper Creek six pack (subject to an objection period.)
- Holiday Mountain plans to re-use 1969 towers on a new chairlift.
- Sommet Saint-Sauveur commissions the first Mantis AI software in North America tied directly into a lift control system.
- An update on Deer Valley’s six lifts going in this summer.
- Park City flies towers for the Sunrise Gondola.
- Utah posts its third highest skier visits in history.
- Teton County, Wyoming to oppose Grand Targhee expansion; Teton County, Idaho not sure yet.
- The Forest Service approves Sipapu to replace Lift 3 with completion slated for Fall 2025.
- The Forest Service hosts a public meeting on the proposed Green Peak gondola.
- Jay Peak President and General Manager Steve Wright tells US Senators the Bonaventure replacement is sidelined by Canadians’ redicence to visit and tariff-related cost increases.
- Eaglecrest permanently closes the Black Bear double, will focus on upgrading Ptarmigan to a triple and installing a used gondola.
- Garaventa and CWA debut tram cabins in Switzerland made to look like wood with flower pots on the ends.
Teton County, Wyoming criticizing a private business for “creating more jobs without providing additional housing” is maybe the height of all ironies. This coming from a government that may be the global champion of preventing housing construction.Also, the resort is effectively in Idaho. Kinda seems like they might not be rooting for its success.
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Muni, the champion of liftees living out of their cars.
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Or, you know, higher density zoning than … whatever this is …
https://dismalwilderness.com/wp-content/uploads/jackson.png
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Has anyone noticed that searching with nothing in the search bar doesn’t really work to find new posts anymore? It used to be that if you pressed search with nothing in the search bar it would put the newest posts in, and it was useful to see whether or not peter had put a new lift onto the database. Now it seems to be stuck around the late march period.
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Yeah, it’s a bit off since a few months.
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Perhaps an additional bullet in the Friday news post with links to the new/updated lift pages? It’s not like Peter isn’t busy… 🤣
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The majority of the Sunrise Gondola towers are now up. They’re still working on excavation for the terminals.
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0?ui=2&ik=30e7bd731d&attid=0.3&permmsgid=msg-f:1835214330936901631&th=1977fdb5ea333fff&view=att&zw&disp=safe
There are tower heads sitting in the parking lot along with some of the new gondola cabins.
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0?ui=2&ik=30e7bd731d&attid=0.0&permmsgid=msg-f:1835214330936901631&th=1977fdb5ea333fff&view=att&zw&disp=safe
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0?ui=2&ik=30e7bd731d&attid=0.1&permmsgid=msg-f:1835214330936901631&th=1977fdb5ea333fff&view=att&zw&disp=safe
All that remains of the Sunrise Double is its top terminal and some chairs.
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0?ui=2&ik=30e7bd731d&attid=0.2&permmsgid=msg-f:1835214330936901631&th=1977fdb5ea333fff&view=att&zw&disp=safe
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I’m having all kinds of tech problems. Photos of the progress in here if anyone wants to see them: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1nTLd3y1jSp__PFwJcpcV2ZvWo5XZTtcn?usp=drive_link
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I’m super excited for the new Argo Mill Gondola!
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