- Val Bialas, New York reopened today after nine years closed.
- The potential buyer for closed Sleeping Giant, Wyoming specializes in roadside attractions like the Royal Gorge gondola and may not reopen skiing.
- A woman is convicted of stealing nearly $5 million from Mighty Argo gondola investors.
- Glenwood Caverns, Colorado files for bankruptcy after a $120 million judgment resulting from a 2021 ride incident.
- The owner of land under parts of Park City’s Timberline and Iron Mountain Express files suit against Vail Resorts, alleging existing easements don’t allow lifts.
- Mt. Bohemia, Michigan has a land lease issue as well.
- A lawsuit proceeds against Bittersweet, Michigan from a volunteer ski patroller who fell 20 feet from a lift after attempting to load a toboggan.
- A skier dies at Welch Village, Minnesota after hitting lift tower.
- A 13 year old is critically injured in a tragic unloading entanglement at Vorlage, Quebec; the mountain remains closed until further notice.
- Bromont rope evacuates Versant du Midi.
- A guest falls from Copper Mountain’s American Flyer.
- A new master plan for Mt. Timothy, BC targets reactivation of the Mad Platter, replacement of the triple with a quad, relocation of the T-Bar and a new platter.
- SilverStar, BC renames the Powder Gulch Express to Putnam Express and Alpine Meadows to Attridge.
- British Columbia releases 268 pages of documents related to the hanger arm failure on Kicking Horse’s gondola last season. The Incident Investigation Report says an undetected crack likely developed over several seasons as a result of both manufacturing and operational factors.
- Cannon expects its tram replacement project to cost between $25 and 33 million.
- Loch Lomond, Ontario’s North chair goes down for maintenance.
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Was RCR/Kicking Horse not doing NDT on the gondola arms? After the Doppelmayr EJ carrier failures back in the day (Bogus Basin/Sun Valley), this stuff should have been done too, regardless of manufacturer. I mean, Riblet put a metal cable inside its frames for this exact reason incase something happened.
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When did those failures happen?
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I don’t know you Joe. DM me with who you are on Instagram.
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Sun Valley was last year, and I’m not sure about Bogus. Both were on carriers subject to a service bulletin that I have laminated and posted on the wall at P-4.
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Reading the report, and correct me if I’m wrong, but my understanding is that NDT was done and did not pick it up.
My take, and again please reply if you feel different is that the primary cause of the break was multiple hits to the arm entering the stations over the years – stressing the arm. This problem seems to have been known and a complacency set in where fixes were tried but not with a sense of importance that perhaps should have been there.
Of course as the report states, multiple holes lined up, but the lack of more effort in addressing the hits on entering the station seems critical to me.
I would also add that my personal take on RCR in light of issues at other of their resorts is that this is a management culture issue more than anything else.
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Tired of lawsuits and roadblocks being thrown at Park City Mountain. While Vail doesn’t always do right, this latest thing is ridiculous.
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I would suggest that when a company does not do right, it makes unneeded enemies and destroys goodwill, a result that eventually come back to bit the company in the rear one way or another. We do not know the motivations of the new owners of the land, but if a company is a good corporate citizen, these things happen less.
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for as much as I dislike Vails management this just seems like a classic Park City moment. These lifts have been here since the early 2000s so it just seems like someone seeing easy money and trying to grab it.
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Robbie you know my line “if you don’t see us you know we are doing our job!” Love ya brother.
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Cool series by Ski Utah; I wish ski resorts were better at highlighting groomers and lift personel. Not only to praise their work (which they obviousy deserve) but also to explain how everything works.
Its actully bonkers when you think about how much work is needed to have a ski resort work.
Also good to recruit new generations of people working the mountains.
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