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Construction Season

Loon Mountain's Pulse Gondola Is the Small Lift With the Biggest Question

The proposed RiverWalk-to-South Peak gondola would be New England's first pulse gondola. It also shows where ski-resort investment is heading: smaller, more local, and more tied to real estate than pure uphill capacity.

May 22, 202610 min readloon-mountain, pulse-gondola, construction-season, boyne-resorts, lincoln-nh, south-peak, riverwalk, doppelmayr, new-hampshire
Construction Season

Park City Mountain's Lift Upgrades Have Been Stuck in Court for Four Years. The Olympics Are Eight Years Away.

Vail Resorts wants to turn Silverlode into an 8-pack and replace the aging Eagle lift with a 6-pack. Residents want answers about traffic. A judge sided with the residents. Now Round 2 is underway -- and the clock is ticking toward 2034.

May 14, 20269 min readpark-city, vail-resorts, silverlode, eagle-lift, construction-season, doppelmayr, 2034-olympics, planning-commission, lift-upgrades, utah
Construction Season

Sugar Bowl Is Tearing Out Its Gondola. You Can Buy the Old One for $10,000.

The West Coast's first gondola resort is spending $100 million to rebuild itself -- starting with the 1982 cabins that carried a generation of Tahoe skiers.

May 12, 20268 min readsugar-bowl, gondola, construction-season, tahoe, doppelmayr, donner-summit, renovation, d-line
Construction Season

Deer Valley Just Doubled. Here's What 10 New Lifts and $5 Billion Actually Look Like.

The largest ski resort expansion in North America is already open -- and they're not even close to done.

May 11, 20269 min readdeer-valley, expansion, lifts, gondola, construction-season, east-village, park-city, 2034-olympics, doppelmayr
Lift & Infrastructure

Gondola One: Vail Dropped $20 Million on a Lift and It Was Actually Worth It

A deep dive into the numbers, engineering, and impact of Vail's flagship gondola.

Jan 20, 20269 min readvail, gondola, doppelmayr, lift-upgrade