- Kicking Horse’s gondola reopens after a six month closure with new hanger arms.
- Vail Resorts might announce new lift projects on Monday, September 29th with fiscal year end earnings.
- Arizona Snowbowl to use gondola cabins as dining rooms for five course dinners on select nights.
- Colorado Mountain College in Leadville to reinstall Steamboat’s former Rough Rider platter as a training lift.
- Purgatory postpones construction of the Gelande lift to next summer, citing permit delays.
- Mt. Bachelor will upgrade the Northwest Express next summer with new operator houses, controls, a night drive system and expanded parking.
- Alterra outlines $400 million in improvements for this season.
- A Doppelmayr gondola station is set on fire in Nepal as part of widespread protests.
- Doppelmayr’s first vertical RopeCon material ropeway to be built somehwere in the Americas.
- The bottom terminal for Alpental’s new Chair 2 is set by Chinook helicopter.
- Aspen receives county approval to build the Nell Bell detachable quad next summer.
- America’s first Bike Cab gondolas arrive in Colorado.
- Two people are killed when a chairlift de-ropes on Russia’s Mt. Elbrus. Videos show challenging conditions for a rope evacuation.
- Lake Louise’s Richardson’s Ridge expansion to open early spring 2026, eventually will include a surface lift from Temple Lodge.
- Doppelmayr reports a 13 percent increase in revenue for fiscal 2024-25, completing 93 ropeways in 25 countries. Approximately 24 percent of €1.2 billion in turnover came from the US and Canada.
- Doppelmayr also reveals a contract to replace a Poma-Otis automated people mover at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles.
- The new gondola at Hawks Nest State Park in West Virginia nears completion.
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Looks like skilifts.org is finally down, im not able to access it at all.
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Accessible at my house.
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Interesting, I wonder why I cant get it to work
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I was able to get it to work on the wayback machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20180811121058/http://www.skilifts.org/old/index.html
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Mighty argo is not the only gondola getting the bike cabs, I unloaded 19 at Big Sky a few weeks ago.
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The Nell Bell chairlift at Aspen is a very interesting alignment. That liftline is a monster, long and steep, to replace two lifts that basically never ran. Makes me wonder about their long term lift plans.
Maybe they decided they couldn’t wait any longer for the Shadow Mountain replacement approval and needed the boost in out-of-base capacity now. Also, Nell Bell will be a nice redundancy for the aging gondola and potential stopgap if/when it is replaced.
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Nothing at Schweitzer even mentioned in the Alterra release. They delayed the (essential!) big new parking lot and day skier area and we haven’t seen any updates since last year. Ugh.
Hoping to hear more in the next few weeks.
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I’ve been to the Portland aerial tram and I think it’s pretty cool. I think it’s more of a tourist attraction than a transportation device but I love the observation deck at the top
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Shouldn’t it be “Alterra and Its Partners Outline $400 Million in Improvements…?
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that sounds right…
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