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- Eaglecrest Ski Area in Alaska is adding a gondola and other resort updates. The gondola will run from near the bottom of the Hooter Lift up to the summit of Stairway to Heavenly on Pittman’s Ridge, with a mid-station below Avalanche Beacon Park. The gondola will be a pulsed gondola with 12 cabins grouped in four pods of three. The station will be large enough to house the cabins at night to protect them from the elements. Eaglecrest has been working on other maintenance while also increasing its snowmaking capacity. SCJ Alliance, the parent company of the Gondola Project, has been retained to provide gondola expertise for this project. See a related Weekly Roundup here.
- Cause of collision at Tremblant Resort in Canada revealed to be incomplete protocols. In July, a piece of construction equipment ran into a gondola cabin, causing the death of one person and another being seriously injured. The Toronto Star revealed that the collision occurred due to incomplete written procedures for moving heavy machinery around the resort. The procedures that were in-place were not known by everyone on site. Furthermore, the resort has been ordered that no construction equipment can be used until the protocols are improved.
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