- Park City’s planning commission approves new Eagle and Silverlode detachables at Park City Mountain.
- The Forest Service releases a Draft Environmental Impact Statement for Waterville Valley’s proposed village-to-Green Peak gondola.
- The Forest Service approves a slew of projects at Grand Targhee including Crazy Horse, Palmer and North Boundary infill lifts, replacements for Dreamcatcher and Shoshone, plus expansion lifts in South Bowl and Mono Trees (all subject to an objection period.)
- Timberline Lodge pivots away from a Government Camp gondola to replacing the Summit chair with two longer chairlifts.
- Powder Mountain to retire the Sunrise Poma in 2027, removing lift access to Cobabe Canyon for non-homeowners.
- PowMow also shifts the planned Doodle beginner lift away from Sundown, new location and timeline to be announced.
- The Town of Winter Park considers where to land a gondola.
- Doppelmayr undertakes major systems modernizations on aging detachables at Telluride, Bromont, Gunstock and Mt. Bachelor.
- Leitner releases its 2025 Reference Book.
- Powderhorn to auction Heron-Poma chairs from old West End.
- The Goldbelt tram remains closed indefinitely and refunds passholders following last month’s crash. Goldbelt is also hiring for a Tram Maintenance Manager and Tram Maintenance Supervisor.
- Even if one municipality says no, a gondola could still work in Rock City, Georgia.
- Quebec reports a strong 6.3 million skier visits and record lift ticket revenue.
- A storm knocks Tamarack’s Tamarack Express offline (photos below)
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Does Shoshone really need to be replaced at Targhee?
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Under the master plan, it’s going to be extended downhill to expand the beginner area a little bit. The extra length combined with the beginner terrain justifies making it detachable.
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That is some impressive damage done to Tamarack express. Looks like the chairlift was started after something happend to the chairs grip or the rope derailed off of the chairlift. I was on this chairlift a couple months ago!
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Looks like the haul rope exited the compression assembly inward and the carrier came into contact with the assembly, bam. I am surprised that the hanger didn’t snap first to break away free vs destroying the baseplate of the tower. Luckily, it’s just the base plate as the tower itself looks fine. Hopefully the foundation bolts aren’t that damaged too bad or else, a new foundation might be needed. I am guessing this lift will be down for a few weeks, maybe a month. This brings up the question, if Tamarack had a severe storm the night before, someone should have walked the line to inspect everything.
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They just said it needs a whole new tower, 3-5 weeks to manufacture and install.
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Any word on the tower head?
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Anchor bolts looking a little bent also??
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Also looks like the heavy side comm line has separated below the tower. Possibility of entanglement?
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When I first looked at the pictures before I read the caption I thought that it was a fixed grip triple. Its impressive just how much damage those motors can do also that an omega fits between the lifting frame and the sheave assembly. Would have been great if it had an RPD or similar device.
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It more than likely has two on that compression assembly, but the lift probably wouldn’t start, so I am guessing someone bypassed that tower. Bypassing is not a good idea unless you know that particular tower or towers are prone to RPD shutdowns due to tower shift from the sun.
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Those assemblies have two RPDs and should have had a brittle bar on the marshmallow as well.
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I’ll be interested to see what pushback results at Targhee, given the opposition a while ago to the proposals. I know every major plan like this will have opposition, but Targhee area/Driggs struck me the first time around as being particularly vocal.
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why can’t powder haven homeowners share terrain with skiers and riders from the public side of the mountain. This may sound like a naive question but is there really a good answer why they can’t?
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Have you seen our illustrious country lately?!?!
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Whether you agree with it or not, it’s pretty obviously related to the perceived value proposition of the real estate they are selling that funds/subsidizes resort operations across the mountain. They are paying for exclusivity and PowMow is trying to thread the needle of providing that while also keeping the public side a viable, compelling proposition by upgrading the key lifts and expanding to Lightning, DMI and soon James Peak.
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Um. . .that’s a bit of a naïve take. It’s more that rich folk can’t share anything with us poors. They’d rather we didn’t have anything nice and only existed to serve them, but for the moment are holding the line at class distinction and metaphorical servitude.
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That’s a lot of big words to say “I hate rich people and also don’t know much about resort economics.”
It’s lousy that terrain like Cobabe is effectively off-limits but the upgrades/expansions to the public section of the mountain arguably offset that. So you’re just reacting to optics and not underlying reality.
Hastings out his capital at risk and gets to mar the rules as a result. Sorry that hurts your feelings.
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@ Mike B – Reed Hastings could lose 90% of his wealth tonight and still hold almost a half billion USD. I don’t think this risk you mention is all that dangerous for his day-to-day existence. I’d be stoked to have .01% of that theoretical reduced USD. ~ 50 grand would be life-changing for those of us who live paycheck-to-paycheck.
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@Joe Blake -Doesn’t matter how wealthy he is, he is running a business, not a charity. That model clearly failed as Powder went through a succession of owners who all lost their shirts. Hastings is trying a different model and owes no one an obligation to subsidize their winter recreation. If the market disagrees and skiers and/or especially homeowners don’t come, he too will have to sell and a new owner will perhaps pivot back to a different model.
We can mourn the loss of the friendly old PowMow, but the reality is that skiing on the Wasatch Front and Back is all big business now and, judging by the experience with Wasatch Peaks Ranch, we are fortunate that Powder is not just retaining public access but is in fact creating new lift-served access to exciting terrain.
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@Joe Blake -Doesn’t matter how wealthy he is, he is running a business, not a charity. That model clearly failed as Powder went through a succession of owners who all lost their shirts. Hastings is trying a different model and owes no one an obligation to subsidize their winter recreation. If the market disagrees and skiers and/or especially homeowners don’t come, he too will have to sell and a new owner will perhaps pivot back to a different model.
We can mourn the loss of the friendly old PowMow, but the reality is that skiing on the Wasatch Front and Back is all big business now and, judging by the experience with Wasatch Peaks Ranch, we are fortunate that Powder is not just retaining public access but is in fact creating new lift-served access to exciting terrain.
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We’ll never know how successful Hastings would’ve been signing on with Epic or Ikon as a partner resort. PowMow never tried that under any owner and probably should have. There is sooooo much terrain to spread people out at PowMow.
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Completely agree @Peter Landsmen. Would have been a great benefit for EpKon passholders. I guess we’ll see if Hastings is satisfied with his visitation numbers once things begin to settle down with the new model featuring a cleanly divided resort between East and West.
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I’m a little disappointed in the Timberline news, even if I understand why they’re doing it. The Summit Pass double is going to need a replacement soon, so they were always looking at two lifts. I really liked the idea of a 1 seat ride to the main terrain with the ability to download during the off season.
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