- Eagle Point, Utah won’t open this season due to extensive fire damage.
- Doppelmayr works to build the world’s highest capacity urban gondola system in Guatemala with two lines, 12 stations and 495 12 place cabins capable of moving 5,500 riders per hour/direction/line.
- An urban gondola in Africa closes after just a few weeks due to low ridership, high ticket prices, vandalism and resident fears.
- A new lawsuit alleges Alterra, Vail, Boyne, Powdr, NSAA and RRC Associates illegally colluded on destination resort pricing (full text here.)
- Oregon OSHA fines Mt. Hood Skibowl $43,000 over a fatal maintenance incident, alleging staff operated a work carrier beyond limitations after receiving no formal training on it (the area has appealed.)
- Doppelmayr to embark on a major expansion in Wolfurt.
- The sale of Eldora still hasn’t closed ten months after initially planned.
- A long-lost Indiana ski area with Riblet quad could reopen.
- Snowmass to move forward with a SkyCab replacement next fall.
- Cannon Mountain delays the due date for new tramway bids to September 2nd.
- Casper, Wyoming solicits bids for a new Hogadon chairlift, due August 28th.
- Doppelmayr submits the winning bid for a new quad at Glen Eden, Ontario.
- Camelback to sell hundreds of chairs from four retired lifts.
- Graffer finally nears completion of a unique gondola intended to open for last winter’s Olympics in Italy.
- An investigation finds parts improperly installed decades ago combined with a misload and unevenly loaded chair caused a deropement at Vail last winter.
- Blacktail Mountain’s founders describe creating the newest US ski area on Forest Service land.
- The National Park Service joins numerous other parties objecting to Grand Targhee’s proposed expansion.
- Lake Louise to complete a systems modernization and capacity upgrade on Top of the World.
- Skytrac completes Snowbird’s new Chickadee chair in just 76 days.
- Cape Smokey, Nova Scotia maps out three future lifts.
- The Summit at Snoqualmie drops Ikon Pass reservations, leaving just Deer Valley, Jackson Hole and Loon requiring them.
- From the classifieds: a Doppelmayr pulse gondola for sale.
- Leitner-Poma makes great strides on a 3,600 pph gondola in Canyons Village at Park City.
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did not expect Doppelmayr to be the manufacturer for Glen Eden’s new ridge lift! its going to stand out amongst the two Poma (and Leitner Poma) alpha quad chairs they already have
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I don’t expect this lawsuit against the conglomerates to go anywhere, but I actually think the case that they’re engaging in anticompetitive information sharing is probably a lot stronger than the case that Alterra and Vail constitute monopolies. Will be interesting to see whether this one gets tossed or if it gets taken more seriously.
Also, kudos to Snoqualmie for dropping Ikon reservations! That was a big issue that made it harder for me to get out this past season.
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I personally believe It’s no different than what movie theater chains do. They match each others price for the most part, but compete against value. Who offers the most value and ease of access wins. I would say the smaller theaters that show independent films do charge half the price, but these films are also not shown in big theaters unless they hit gold (e.g. Napoleon Dynamite). A film with a budget of only $400,000 has made over $125,000,000 today. After its success, Fox Searchlight spent $200,000 to reshoot the ending.
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Fascinating that presumably the Eaglecrest gondola ends up in classifieds on this website. Wild rollercoaster of a story!
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Busy week!
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I don’t know if this email takes replies, but I work for Proctor Ski Area and if you are interested we are currently taking bids from Doppelmayr and MND for a new T-bar.
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Why no bid from Leitner Poma?
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Is that closed urban Gondola in Madagascar one of the shortest lived lifts in recent time excluding Expo/Exhibition Gondolas, or special event Chairlifts like Timing Flats Express for the 2010 Olympic Games?
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