- Public backlash quashes the Rock City, Georgia gondola project as currently designed.
- Revelstoke Mountain Resort tells local elected officials CA$120 million in new lift and snowmaking infrastructure depends mostly on real estate sales.
- The ski industry pushes back on proposed elimination of seasonal time changes.
- A wild viral video shows a haul rope being cut with an angle grinder on a decommissioned lift in France.
- Vail and Booth Creek visionary George Gillett, Jr. dies at 87.
- Eagle Point shares a fire recovery update.
- Goldbelt shares a Juneau tram crash recovery update.
- The lawsuit threatening Park City’s Iron Mountain Express heads to mediation.
- The activist investor seeking to influence Vail Resorts buys more shares.
- Snow Trails, Ohio to install new chairs on Alpine and tower heads on Silver.
- Loveland to replace Lift 2 with a Leitner-Poma detachable quad in a new alignment.
Awesome for Loveland!
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Cool to see the Lift 2 announcement and glad it is the alignment of their master plan. It will be much better for progression for beginners, there was kind of gap after doing Lift 7 > Lift 3 mid station.
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Very cool video about Mt. Bachelor.
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Here at Sunshine and Louise, we will let you know how not changing the clocks works this winter. I expect lifts open later and close later and nobody really worries about it.
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It will be basically this. Having spent seasons skiing AZ snowbowl, which has not ever had clock changes, it was never an issue but we did get a few late season extended days where the mountain was open until 6:30ish.
It never made a difference opening at 9-9:30 am.
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To be fair, Banff is quite a bit farther north and also farther west in MST (before accounting for the permanent DST now in effect). During late December, lifts open at 9am and the sun doesn’t even really come up until 8:30am, which will be 9:30am now. Flagstaff has sunrise at 7:30am even on the shortest day of the year.
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The new Lift 2 alignment will make it actually usable as a lapping lift and not just as an access lift to 6. (I wonder if this means that tower 2 on Lift 6 gets removed or it gets retrofitted with a lifting frame, as it doesn’t have one due to being where that lift crosses under Lift 2.)
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