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News Roundup: Next Season

January 18, 2019Peter Landsman1 Comment

Revelstoke drops more details and a map of Cupcake, coming next winter.
Waterville Valley says the federal government shutdown is to blame for High Country and Sunnyside not opening yet this season.
As the shutdown drags on, there are at least 13 resorts waiting on federal analysis of new lift projects by my count.
A group of homeowners who invested to build the bubble six pack at the Hermitage Club worry Berkshire Bank could foreclose on the chairlift.
Whistler Blackcomb loses its claim to the world’s longest unsupported lift span but now features the longest continuous gondola system and the highest capacity gondola in North America.
Jay is officially available.
Despite a completed new chairlift, Frost Fire won’t open this season as it continues to fundraise.
The Telluride community considers what to do in 2027 when public funding for the gondola sunsets.
Mountain Capital Partners still plans to reopen Elk Ridge but not this season.

News Roundup: Shutdown

January 11, 2019January 11, 2019Peter Landsman44 Comments

The Jay Peak receiver hires an investment bank to market Vermont’s northernmost resort to potential buyers.
Now flying at Copper Mountain: the world’s longest bubble chair. Down to five new ski lifts that have yet to open this season in the United States.
The government shutdown coincides terribly with Hurricane Ridge’s ski season, which can’t start without funding for the National Park Service.
Alpine Media Technology launches digital signage on lifts at Steamboat with more Alterra resorts to follow.
Many North American resorts enjoyed a banner holiday week.
Vail Resorts North American skier visits are up 16.9 percent through January 6th.
Killington applies for permission to replace the North Ridge chairlift with a fixed grip quad.
The BBC traces the global rise of urban gondolas.
A Maine county joins the state in suing the owner of Big Squaw Mountain for failing to operate the resort, which once was the second largest in Vacationland.
The Lift 1 Corridor Project heads to Aspen voters March 5th.
Arizona Snowbowl closes Agassiz for a mid season gearbox replacement.
Elk Ridge, Arizona won’t operate for the second season in a row, leaving just three ski areas in the state.
Attitash’s Summit triple is still closed.
So are two of Pajarito’s main lifts indefinitely.
The 2018 Olympic Downhill venue – gondolas, high speed quads and all – may be returned to a natural state.
Lawyers for The Hermitage Club seek more time to respond to a lawsuit filed by investors who helped purchase the Barnstormer bubble chairlift.
Santo Domingo, the largest city in the Dominican Republic, solicits bids for its third and fourth urban gondola sections with hourly capacities of 6,000 and 4,500, respectively.
Scott Pierpont retires as Vice President of Sales at Doppelmayr USA and is succeeded by Shawn Marquardt.
Glenwood Caverns’ old gondola is already rising again in southern Illinois.
Last month’s lift evacuation at Whitefish got worldwide media attention. The Flathead Beacon digs into why the mountain was so well prepared for the situation.

News Roundup: High Level

October 19, 2017October 19, 2017Peter Landsman9 Comments

The Denver Post talks details with Dave Perry, head of the new KSL-Crown Family resort company.
James Coleman is buying Elk Ridge, Arizona and plans to build a chairlift.
Nonprofit operator of Cape Smokey in Nova Scotia seeks private investor to revive a mothballed 1995 quad chair.
T-Bar mania continues in New England as Ascutney proposes installing a 2,500′ Doppelmayr from Le Relais.
Man falls from the Black Mountain Express on Arapahoe Basin’s opening day.
Tram board finds insufficient evidence to act against Granby Ranch for allegedly leaving a child on a chairlift years ago.
Granby also moves forward with replacing Quickdraw’s drive.
Eldora takes local media on a tour of Alpenglow.
Sometime after I took pictures of the Basin quad at White Pass, a wacky offset half tower was added.
Groundbreaking at The Balsams is delayed yet again.
The private owner of the former High Pond Ski Area in Vermont is installing a new Leitner-Poma T-Bar on the site.
In a podcast interview, chief of Canada’s third largest transit agency says high-level talks are underway toward building the Burnaby Mountain Gondola.
Purgatory seeks approval to build a 4,200′ lift called Gelande to the south of Needles next summer.

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