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Deer Valley Unveils Phasing for Eastward Expansion
Deer Valley Resort today detailed plans to open a two stage gondola and eight chairlifts for the 2025-26 season in phase one of Expanded Excellence. Deer Valley also revealed the new village portal...
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Ski Santa Fe to Reopen Lift Tuesday Following Grip Slip Incident
A full triple chair slid into another chair carrying three people at Ski Santa Fe, New Mexico Saturday, leading to a partial rope evacuation of the Tesuque Peak lift. No injuries were reported and the...
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Instagram Tuesday: Northwest
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New Ski Resort Proposed in Southwest British Columbia
South Anderson Mountain Resort has joined the growing list of new ski resort and scenic gondola proposals in British Columbia. This week Spuzzum First Nation Chief James Hobart detailed plans for the...
View ArticleNews Roundup: Les Otten
Leitner-Poma places the only bid to modernize the Cannon Mountain Aerial Tram for $29 million, 60 percent more than the state’s $18 million estimate. A gondola is considered to connect Dawson City to...
View ArticleInstagram Tuesday: Lightning Express
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View ArticleNews Roundup: Legoland Gondola
Nordic Valley should know by March whether Apollo can be repaired or must be replaced. Bridger also remains out of service. Wasatch Peaks Ranch resolves its dispute with residents, can resume...
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Alterra to Buy Arapahoe Basin
Alterra Mountain Company has reached an agreement to acquire Arapahoe Basin, Colorado from Dream Unlimited, a Canadian developer which has owned the Basin since 1997. Alterra did not disclose the sale...
View ArticleInstagram Tuesday: Mahogany Ridge
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Tennessee’s Ober Mountain Plans Two New Lifts
A building boom will continue this summer in Gatlinburg, the lift capital of the Southeast. Ober Mountain plans to construct two new Doppelmayr quad chairs replacing aging lifts. The first fixed grip...
View ArticleNews Roundup: On the Horizon
Mountain Capital Partners successfully brings back Sandia Peak Ski Area, opening for the first time in three seasons tomorrow. Doppelmayr plans a €200 million expansion in Wolfurt to support strong...
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Legoland New York Announces Minifigure Skyflyer Gondola
The first gondola lift at any Legoland park worldwide will open this summer at Legoland New York, located near the town of Goshen. The Leitner-Poma system will traverse the park with two stations and...
View ArticleInstagram Tuesday: Hello BC
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Bogus Basin to Build Two New Lifts
The nation’s largest nonprofit ski area will embark on two lift replacement projects this summer after initially planning just one. Bogus Basin has signed a contract with Skytrac to build the fixed...
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New Master Plan Previews Vail Mountain Lift Upgrades
With one of the largest lift fleets in the country and a dozen recent additions, Vail Mountain could probably stop building lifts for awhile and be fine. However a new 2024 Master Development Plan,...
View ArticleNews Roundup: Aspen Snowmass
Aspen Mountain’s Lift 1A goes down and is rope evacuated. Aspen closes redundant lifts midweek due to low ridership. The next lift upgrades at Snowmass will be Coney Express followed by Cirque and...
View ArticleInstagram Tuesday: West Mountain
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The Summit at Snoqualmie Shuffles New Lift Plans
Instead of building two new chairlifts at Alpental this summer, The Summit at Snoqualmie will instead build one lift at Alpental and another at Summit West in partnership with Doppelmayr. The Summit...
View ArticleNews Roundup: Too Expensive
Bromont, Quebec joins the Mountain Collective, Arapahoe Basin will remain for 24-25. Steamboat’s Pony Express goes down, temporarily cutting off lift access to the new Mahogany Ridge Express as well....
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Deropement Causes Chair Pileup at Snow Ridge, New York
Photo credit: Bob Bennett Snow Ridge has had a tough year. An EF-3 tornado tore through the small Upstate New York mountain last August, damaging all four of the mountain’s lifts. A number of other...
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