Labrador Mountain
News Roundup: Contingency Plan
- Homewood toreopen next season but its D-Line gondoladelivered in 2023 won’t be installed this summer.
- Powdrabandons plans to sell Mt. Bachelor.
- Powdr’s sale of Eldora is said to be in thefinal stages.
- Le Massif, Quebecsigns on to the Ikon Pass.
- New details emerge from the antitrust case against the owner of Song Mountain and Labrador Mountain, New York; he plans to appeal.
- Whaleback, New Hampshire looks towarda new chairlift.
- Sun Valleyseeks to be removed from a lawsuit filed by a homeowner regarding the placement of the newFlying Squirrel quad.
- Stratton’sAmerican Express closes early and will reopen for summer later than normal for amajor systems modernization.
- The Forest Serviceapproves Steamboat to replaceSunshine Express with a six pack.
- The world’ssecond largest gondola network is proposed in India with 15 stations and 660 cabins.
- If Bluewood, Washington can’t complete its planned relocation of a used high speed quad from Austria next season, it willkeep its Borvig lift and credit passholders $100.
- The US government implements ablanket 20% tariff on goods from the European Union and 31% on products from Switzerland, both major source regions for lift components.
- Skeetawk, Alaskaworks to repair its only chairlift but snow may run out first.
- Arctic Valley, Alaska’sT-Bar will be inoperable the rest of the season due to anincident damaging the haul rope.
- Holiday Mountain, New York looks to reopen long lost terrain with athird chairlift.
- Alta torealign Supreme this summer, re-doing every foundation and re-using towers and terminals.
- Castle Mountain’s expansion lift to be calledStagecoach Express.
- The owner of Berkshire East and Catamount would operate Burke Mountain under aproposed sale to local investors. The group also plans torefurbish the J-Bar and relocate Willoughby if the sale goes through.
News Roundup: Reimagine Crystal
- Crystal Mountainputs a timeline on Reimagine Crystal: Bullion Basin/Gold Hills expansion in 2023/24 and Campbell Basin Gondola/Mt. Rainer Gondola upgrade/Discovery shortening in 2024/25.
- Interesting terminals take shape in New Hampshire: a pancake-style return at Waterville Valley and a UNI G skin on an older Doppelmayr at Loon Mountain.
- Labrador Mountain and Song Mountain President Peter Harrisdefends the closure of Toggenburg Mountain.
- In Quebec, closed ski area Val Neigette and its Doppelmayr quad arefor sale.
- More new trail maps showing new lifts:Arapahoe Basin,Big Boulder,Breckenridge,Loon Mountain,Steamboat andStowe
- SunKid builds a newworld’s longest conveyor lift.
- Lutsen’s new six pack will be calledRaptor Express.
- The National Labor Relations Board willhold a hearing on Park City lift mechanics’ unionization effort November 1st.
- I join Tom Kellyon the Ski Utah podcast to talk about new lifts in Utah and more.
- The parent company of Grouse Mountain and Revelstoke and providesan update on the proposed Garibaldi at Squamish resort.
News Roundup: Allegations
- With energy at a premium in Europe, Leitnershowcases technology which regulates the speed of a ropeway based on rider demand.
- The nonprofit which has been running Big Squaw says the sale to Big Moose Development still hasn’t been completed and this season willcontinue as normal.
- Sugarbush confirms aHeaven’s Gate replacement is in the works but itwon’t happen in 2023 as lift prices surge and lead times increase.
- Ropeway pioneer Willy Garaventadies at the age of 88.
- Los Angeles releases theEnvironmental Impact Statement for the Dodger Stadium gondola project.
- Names for the five new Skytracs at Jack Frost Big Boulder are: Blue Heron, Harmony, Paradise, Pocono and Tobyhanna.
- Groupe Le Massifremains interested in acquiring Mont-Sainte-Anne from Resorts of the Canadian Rockies and would also be open to acquiring Stoneham as part of a deal.
- Aftermultiple years of construction, Ontario’s Mt. Baldy finally has a new chairlift.
- Mount Snow willsell more double, triple and quad chairs for charity.
- New York’s Attorney Generalsues the owners of Labrador Mountain and Song Mountain, alleging their purchase and closure of nearby Toggenburg was anti-competitive. Former Toggenburg/current Greek Peak owner John Meier agreed to pay the State $195,000 and will cooperate in the case against Labrador and Song’s parent company.
- The Governor of Utahthrows his support behind the Little Cottonwood gondola project.
- Anew document shows where Mammoth’s relocatedPanorama Gondola and new Big Bend chairlift would run as part of theEvolving Main project.
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania againseeks an operator to revive the Denton Hill Ski Area.
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