- Utah skier visits fell 26 percent last season, Vermont was up 4.7 percent.
- Aspen Snowmass visitation falls for the third year in a row.
- Vail Resorts reports season pass unit sales down 10 percent for next season, lowers financial guidance again.
- Vail wins a 15 year contract extension in Grand Teton National Park representing over a billion dollars gross.
- Six Park City residents appeal approval of replacement Eagle and Silverlode detachables.
- A new ski resort in Ukraine selects Doppelmayr for €47 million worth of lifts.
- A Japanese gondola operator introduces a special cabin with Dolby Atmos surround sound for an upcharge.
- A new urban gondola in Uruapan, Mexico already carries 18,000 riders per day, far exceeding expectations.
- Mt. Ashland, Oregon pushes to lift replacements to 2027 and 2028.
- Snow King’s new gondola cabins planned for summer concerts are delayed in customs but should go live soon.
- A new sightseeing gondola nears completion in BC’s Okanagan region.
- Beartooth Basin temporarily closes due to lift issues.
- Mountain Capital Partners acquires three Arizona golf resorts.
- Pico to replace the Outpost double with a new chairlift in 2027, manufacturer and model TBA.
- Planning commissioners in Georgia reject a gondola proposal on the Tennessee border but it could still be built on unincorporated land.
- A gondola proposed in Canmore, Alberta also faces fierce opposition.
- The Town of Telluride questions Telski’s plan to replace two doubles with fixed grips instead of detachables.
- Floods partially submerge chairlifts in Manitoba.
- The Governor officially opens Arkansas’ first new chairlift in 53 years.
- Pursuit’s planned $70 to $80 million in 2026 growth capital includes replacing the Jasper SkyTram with a 2S gondola, subject to Parks Canada approval.
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Honestly with Park City seriously! Haven’t we just had enough drama at this point? It’s not just the crowds that PC wants to replace Eagle/Silverlode, but also to increase reliability in the PC area, whose infrastructure is more outdated than the Canyons Village. The 6 residents need to know that any lift depreciates over time like other assets and that maintenance costs will only get more expensive to the point where it’ll be more costly than to replace. Also, the 2034 Olympics are coming as well so there’s that.
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They don’t care about any of that.
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Something something “property values”….
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Peter (or anyone else) perhaps you could provide some insight to the JH news & guide article about Snow King
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As of today there are 28 on the line and 8 just arrived in the parking lot. So they are going to 36 for now.
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Did they previously add 4 since install? Or was the sheet just wrong only showing 24, till you updated it today?
Still think it’s comical they still got the numbers wrong either way.
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It’s just a number. No big deal.
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There were definitely only 24 at the beginning so four got added sometime. I find it amazing they didn’t buy all the cabins for final capacity this round to address local complaints about concert lines. The total redevelopment of Snow King cost tens of millions and 15 more cabins would cost around a million. They spent $5 million on an observatory and Rafferty base improvements ran $15 million. Yet they have this low capacity gondola and crowdfund $75,000 cabins a few at a time through $20 fees.
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Ok I checked with LPOA. They ran 24 cabins/1,000 pph at opening, 4 cabins were added in 2023 and 8 more this week. That brings Snow King to about 1,700 pph. Final capacity is 2,100 pph.
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In the vain of sheet updates, you updated carriers but not capacity.
Totally agree on the strange allocation of funds, even more so when it’s likely they keep increasing in cost.
As for “it’s just a number”. – Was more stating it was comical seeing as the newspaper was seemingly receiving information from the mountain manager, and no one seemed to be able to get it right.
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I will check with LPOA tomorrow. They originally sent me 1,000 for initial and design capacity, which seems not to be correct.
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Side note: I’m aware of an issue on a lot of the lift pages where photos appear stretched out on desktop. Working on it.
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The Canmore Gondi and local opposition is kind of interesting. The MLA for that area is NDP but the provincial government is Conservative, and the manipulative Maple Maga type, who do what they want for their own benefit. Locals are a mix of older rich retired Calgary types who hate any development after they bought in and a good chunk of younger people who live their for the access to Banff and the outdoors. Local opposition will not matter under this government as their electoral base is rural farming types. Long term I do not think it will get built due to environmental reasons and court challenges as well as a good chance the current government will lose the next election, but that is at least a few years away.
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*”live their for” should be “live there for” – sometimes I English bad …. ;)
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I feel like Lift 7 at telluride really isn’t worth an upgrade. Oak street I could see but there isn’t much parking near.
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7 is definitely due to be replaced regardless, due to age. Its a 1975 SLI. They have the money, might as well replace it with a HSQ given that it’s over 4000ft in length
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