- Doppelmayr/Garaventa submits the apparent low bid to rebuild the Cannon Mountain tram for $44.6 million, 36 percent above the state’s estimate. Leitner-Poma’s $49.5 million bid comes in 50 percent higher than estimated.
- Bromley to replace the Plaza double with a rope tow.
- Park City’s twice approved Eagle and Silverlode replacements face yet another lawsuit.
- Indy Pass adds Ski Land and Skeetawk, Alaska; Showdown, Montana; Kendall Mountain, Colorado; Frost Fire, North Dakota; King Pine, New Hampshire; Powder Ridge, Connecticut and Mont Kanasuta, Quebec plus international partners with more to come next week.
- Indy loses Midwest mountains Caberfae Peaks, Michigan and The Rock, Little Switzerland & Nordic Mountain, Wisconsin.
- Telluride’s planned gondola replacement may not receive federal transit funding due to political optics, Buy America requirements and flat ridership on the current system.
- An update on the Stagecoach Mountain Ranch private ski area approval process.
- Several riders fall from the beach chairlift at Seaside Heights, New Jersey.
- Loon Mountain unveils a 272 acre, lift free expansion and new trail map.
- Brundage ends summer early due to a lift issue.
- Alterra will move to downtown Denver.
- Two of Vail Resorts’ three Australia mountains close weeks early due to snowmelt.
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Sad potential news about the Telluride Gondola. Wondering if they might have to reduce operational hours and days on it
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What’s fascinating to me about the constant PCMR lawsuits is that they fundamentally misunderstand the argument about comfortable carrying capacity.
These plaintiffs constantly argue that increased uphill capacity will lead to more crowding and thus “unsafe” conditions on the slopes, but a capacity increase (and frankly a third out-of-base route) would improve circulation as a whole across the ski area, perhaps at the cost of a run or two being busier than before. PCMR suffers from a circulation problem more than anything, it takes time for guests to spread out, reducing bottlenecks is something these people ought to get behind…
Will the base area still have a horde of people Saturday morning, even with an upgraded chair? Obviously yes, but more uphill capacity in different directions will still be a net positive for circulation, which, in turn, improves “safety”.
I think it also speaks to the heaping dose of anxiety longtime residents have about the state of Utah skiing. These people, more than anything else, want a return to 2000s Utah skiing, where annual visitation never went over 5 million skier visits, no multi-mountain passes, and basically the same amount of skiable acreage as today. I can appreciate the nostalgia goggles, but that is also completely unrealistic with the amount of population growth (and transplants who moved here *explicitly* for the proximity to a dozen large ski areas). That’s where the NIMBYism comes in, and that’s where these people lose me because being here first doesn’t make you right.
PCMR is gargantuan and that requires millions of dollars in CapEx to be competitive. The town lives and dies by both ski areas (hat tip to DV) continually reinvesting to keep it competitive, otherwise the tourists who pay for the whole party will go someplace else.
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