Lifts

SAM Magazine-Park City, Utah, Nov. 17, 2011-Canyons is proposing a groundbreaking gondola to connect Canyons and Solitude resorts and reduce auto traffic between the…

SAM Magazine-Augusta, Maine, July 19, 2011-The Maine Elevator and Tramway Safety Board has voted to recommend that the state legislature create licensing standards for…

SAM Magazine-Salt Lake City, Dec. 2, 2010-Skytrac, Inc., which has started manufacturing lifts in the U.S., is the first new North American aerial ropeway…

SAM Magazine-New Westminster, British Columbia-In response to the failure of a lift tower of Blackcomb’s Excalibur Gondola in December 2008 due to ice jacking,…

SAM Magazine-Pine Island, N.Y., Mar. 9, 2010-Partek has issued a service bulletin for Borvig lifts manufactured from 1975 to 1982. Affected chair grips from…

SAM Magazine–November 2, 2009–Welch Village Resort, Minn., announced that they have contracted with Doppelmayr CTEC to design a new, eco-Drive four-passenger chairlift for installation…

SAM Magazine-Welch, Minn., Jan. 21, 2009-Welch Village is opening its Back Bowl slopes and new quad chairlift to all guests daily beginning Thursday, Jan.…

SAM Magazine – Teton Village, Wyo., December 15, 2008 – Jackson’s new tram is scheduled to open on December 19. The new tram replaces…

SAM Magazine-Ray Brook, NY., Oct. 10, 2008-Plans to link New Yorks’s Gore Mountain Ski Center with nearby North Creek Ski Bowl were given the…

SAM Magazine – Whistler BC., – Crews have completed the ropework for the Whistler/Blackcomb Peak 2 Peak Gondola. The ropework crosses an unsupported three-kilometer…

SAM Magazine-Rossland, B.C., July 14, 2008-Red Mountain will spend approximately $1 million on capital improvements this summer. Upgrades include a comprehensive lift-service audit that…

SAM Magazine-Big Cottonwood Canyon, Utah, June 26, 2008-Utah’s Solitude has long been known as a sleepy backwater, with slow, fixed grip chairs, plenty of…