- Telluride plans to reopen Lift 1 Monday with non-union workers.
- Here’s some detailed on the ground reporting from the Telluride strike.
- Le Massif, Quebec also shuts down completely due to a strike.
- Mountain High, California temporarily closes due to rain damage.
- Mt. Waterman’s Chair 1 sustains severe damage from the same storm.
- Marquette Mountain, Michigan’s Rocket chair will miss this season due to a gearbox issue.
- Boyne Mountain, Michigan rope evacuates Disciples 8.
- Trollhaugen, Wisconsin rope evacs Chair 4.
- Sasquatch Mountain, BC’s Sasquatch chair remains out of service.
- Black Mountain, New Hampshire loses its only two chairlifts over the holiday period; both are now back in action.
- Mont Farlagne, New Brunswick loses its only chairlift to a gearbox issue, considers buying a T-Bar for future redundancy.
- Burke Mountain’s 1965 J-Bar is back after missing a season.
- Norway Mountain, Michigan revives the Thor double after many years inoperable.
- Asessippi, Manitoba notes several carriers are unusable on the Porcupine triple but the lift will continue to run.
- Seven people are injured in Italy when an aerial tram fails to slow down properly when docking.
- A child dies after becoming entangled in a conveyor lift in Japan.
- A woman is uninjured after dangling upside down from the doors of a gondola cabin at Park City (video).
- Mount Snow shutters Ego Alley and Seasons for different reasons.
- The latest court filing over a delayed lift project at Bluewood, Washington alleges Steelhead Systems’ “experience in the sale and delivery of used chairlifts” has “been marred by disappointing results, delays and unexplained cost overruns.”
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Reading between the lines, it seems that Ego Alley has spun its last lap. It has been taken off the snow report, though it is still on the trail map. I’m not really surprised. I thought it was on borrowed time the moment that the Sundance Express went in. Really its main role was backup in case all the main face detachables went down, but Sundance seems to be the more wind resistant than the other main face detachables, so it lessens the need even further.
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Ego Alley to the North Face was the way out of the base in icing incidents. Now there’s no way out.
Vail is yet again penny wise pound foolish.
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If Sundance, Grand Summit, Bluebird, and Canyon are all unable to run, there has either been a mechanical collapse at Mount Snow or the conditions/weather are not worthy of skiing. Other resorts in the northeast have detachables without redundancy for severe icing, and Mount Snow will be fine. It is, frankly, a smart move by Vail to remove an old lift no longer needed.
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Only time I’ve ever side-eyed Vail Resorts for a lift removal might’ve been them removing Argentine at Keystone after the Peru Express was upgraded, but mostly there because it provided a way out of Mountain House if Peru went down for any reason.
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Vail Resorts likely has decided that the odds of something taking out all of the main base detachables are so low that it’s a safe risk to take.
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Hanson Hills, Mi. Facebook post mentioned their T-Bar is down saying “With a lift that’s over 70 years old, there are times we must wait on parts to address mechanical issues.” This has to be 1 of the oldest lifts still in service!
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Black Mountain has a J-Bar that was installed in the 1930s and still runs from time to time. Impressive, isn’t it?
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Reading that legal brief: So did parts of the Bluewood lift (bullwheel & haul rope) get scrapped?
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I couldn’t tell. It referenced the second middleman (ProAlpin). I recall reading that SSI said it was told that the parts would be scrapped if not picked up by a certain date, but this current filing indicates that WGSKI thinks (or knows) that ProAlpin said no such thing. Neither filing mentioned whether SSI had in fact picked up the parts.
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Oh no! That might be the end of Mt. Waterman. 😢 When they have snow, which isn’t often (they haven’t operated much in recent years), they have the best terrain in Southern California.
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