According to one of the comments, it appears it did not run a single day in 17-18. I believe the Summit Triple replacement is going to be done in 2019 so this lift especially wouldn’t have been needed then.
It would be a high speed quad or 6 pack. The triple is among the longest fixed trips that is a primary lift and it realistically has over a 15 minute ride. Top Notch had a capacity of 950/hr and the Summit Triple has a capacity of 1500/hr, so they’d need a capacity of at least 2450/hr on a new lift. I assume they’d go to at least 2600/hr.
They announced replacing the double-double with a fixed-grip quad for 2022 a while back, but interesting that now they’re also planning to replace Summit with a HS4 or 6 this summer as well. Seems like a last-minute addition to the summer plan.
It is crazy to think about what Attitash would look like today if ASC had chosen to prioritize the Stony Brook expansion over the Killington-Pico Interconnect. In 1984, Les Otten’s Sunday River and independent Attitash both had approximately the same number of annual skier visits, but continued expansion over the next decade gave the former resort over three times as many when Otten purchased the latter. The idea was to grow Attitash in a similar fashion through three rounds of expansion: Bear Peak, Little Attitash Mountain, and Big Attitash Mountain, with the final buildout having over 1000 skiable acres. Work on Bear Peak started immediately and was completed by 1996, but then Otten merged his resorts with S-K-I to form ASC. This gave Les Otten Killington, which he had always wanted after starting his career there decades prior. The second phase of expansion was ready to go at Attitash, but Otten redirected these funds to purchase Pico in an effort to expand Killington. The Killington-Pico Interconnect never fully materialized, as the additional money needed went towards purchasing and expanding western resorts in an attempt to geographically diversify. This saddled ASC with an enormous amount of debt that killed the company. So today, instead of having the Little Attitash Mountain expansion, Killington and Pico are separate mountains under common ownership.
Lift Blog 
According to one of the comments, it appears it did not run a single day in 17-18. I believe the Summit Triple replacement is going to be done in 2019 so this lift especially wouldn’t have been needed then.
LikeLike
What are they replacing the summit triple with?
LikeLike
It would be a high speed quad or 6 pack. The triple is among the longest fixed trips that is a primary lift and it realistically has over a 15 minute ride. Top Notch had a capacity of 950/hr and the Summit Triple has a capacity of 1500/hr, so they’d need a capacity of at least 2450/hr on a new lift. I assume they’d go to at least 2600/hr.
LikeLike
Other double chair that was removed was called Old Reliable. It was Muller
LikeLike
It was also removed in 1998, as it was directly replaced with the Flying Yankee chair.
LikeLike
They announced replacing the double-double with a fixed-grip quad for 2022 a while back, but interesting that now they’re also planning to replace Summit with a HS4 or 6 this summer as well. Seems like a last-minute addition to the summer plan.
LikeLike
They’re only doing the quad this summer. The Summit replacement may happen eventually but not this year.
LikeLike
They want to replace the Summit Triple next year: https://twitter.com/AttitashResort/status/1534992581238702099
LikeLike
I believe Kachina went in for 1997. It might have come from Sunday River.
LikeLike
It was North Peak at Someday Bigger, for sure. I watched them set the motor room on the terminal frame.
LikeLike
It is crazy to think about what Attitash would look like today if ASC had chosen to prioritize the Stony Brook expansion over the Killington-Pico Interconnect. In 1984, Les Otten’s Sunday River and independent Attitash both had approximately the same number of annual skier visits, but continued expansion over the next decade gave the former resort over three times as many when Otten purchased the latter. The idea was to grow Attitash in a similar fashion through three rounds of expansion: Bear Peak, Little Attitash Mountain, and Big Attitash Mountain, with the final buildout having over 1000 skiable acres. Work on Bear Peak started immediately and was completed by 1996, but then Otten merged his resorts with S-K-I to form ASC. This gave Les Otten Killington, which he had always wanted after starting his career there decades prior. The second phase of expansion was ready to go at Attitash, but Otten redirected these funds to purchase Pico in an effort to expand Killington. The Killington-Pico Interconnect never fully materialized, as the additional money needed went towards purchasing and expanding western resorts in an attempt to geographically diversify. This saddled ASC with an enormous amount of debt that killed the company. So today, instead of having the Little Attitash Mountain expansion, Killington and Pico are separate mountains under common ownership.
LikeLike