A GONDY AT BELLEAYRE??

JMaul

Catskill Thunder.

Cachuga

mapnut

<blockquote class=“Quote” rel=“rickbolger”>Have they contracted for a gondy? Completed the engineering, paid a deposit, all that stuff?     I’m not suggesting this is government make-work and a publicity shot, I’m just curious why none of the specifics have been as well publicized as this liftline clearing work.</blockquote>

“Belleayre” said in one of the Facebook replies that the gondola should be completed by December 2017.

rickbolger

OK so you saw through my carefully worded post.

What the heck. Well this is either A) make-work or  B) they are really putting one in.

If B) then I suggest the vendor was pre-selected and has consulted on the liftline, and the bid was written to their spec.

I keep coming back to A), blowing smoke.  Usually if you have a pre-selected vendor the bid language is more precise

We just have to wait and see

JMaul

<font face=“Arial, Verdana”>Ropeways article has a Stowe photoshopped Leitner Poma, for what its worth.</font>

lotsoskiing

at least they changed the skier’s parka color as well…

Jerseydaze

I think the Gondi transfer lift will make a lot more sense once they expand west .

slatham

Ha I wonder if the fact that there’s only one person riding it is a premonition?!?!?!?

obienick

Looking at that map, that’s got to be the stupidest alignment for a gondola ever.

rickbolger

OK so they seem to be making quite a racket about this, I’ll take them at their word. 

 I expect it to have very little impact on the number of ski lift tickets sold, but it will enable them to expand nicely into weddings/event catering, mountain biking, year-round sky rides, possibly mountain top dining, and such.

As for the photoshop hack, I think they learned their lesson with the pre-season promotion for cat skiing, when they used a cartoon with a crazy logo and nobody understood what it was.

obienick

Wait is that the name of the gondy? Catskil Thunder? Really?!?

JMaul

<blockquote class=“Quote” rel=“obienick”>Looking at that map, that’s got to be the stupidest alignment for a gondola ever.</blockquote>

I think it’s their best bet should they expand into the Highmount area. It is also the highest point along the ridge.

I saw somewhere a proposed line to the summit lodge but was scrapped for some reason.

Also, bittersweet for the Tomahawk Area. With the lift going in, they most likely will be pumping snow on Deer Run and Dot Nebel much earlier than before. But, this will attract more crowds, possibly those with limited abilities that shouldn’t be on those trails.

obienick

My point is they have only proposd one trail to connect the upper and lower mountains. That’s not going to be enough to take the uphil capacity.

The alignment may be fine in theory based on topography. But it’s not good if you look at existing and planned trails.

lotsoskiing

“Catskill Thunder”….silly name. Reminds me of Mt. Bachelor a while back had a cartoon character (The Bachelor Guy) that touted the virtues of skiing “out loud”, whatever that was. Not sure what Catskill Thunder is, but not sure I want to experience it while riding a gondola. What redeeming value i there in conjuring images of violent storms when boarding a ski lift. Weird.

mapnut

Wanna bet they don’t run the Tomahawk lift on weekdays, taking a page from Gore? Everyone would have to ski a flat half-mile below the upper access road to get back to the lift. And that would be another run that would have to get a lot of snowmaking.

trackbiker

Geeze. I would have thought they would be more likely to spell Belleayre wrong. ;))

4aprice

I’m wondering if some day down the line they are thinking of getting rid of the mid mountain lodge or at least the parking there in the future. (could keep lodge as mid mountain restaurant)  Gondola could indeed be more of a transfer lift but also a good excuse to build a solid top lodge where people could fan out from.  (If you know Bell that could be quite a skate) You see this in the west where at some places you take a gondola from the parking lot to get to the ski area.  Get the old Highmount up and that’s quite a spread.  Haven’t been in several years but plan to get there this year on Max.

Alex 

Lake Hopatcong, NJ

rickbolger

Well I thought Catskill Thunder was an odd name and also thought it was a misssppelling  

Cattskill [sic] thunder is described in the second stanza of this poem found in The Friend Volume IV, published in Philadelphia 1831

lotsoskiing

Still a silly name for a gondola…

jgreco

Deer Run is going to be a clusterfluff until the Highmount trails open. 

mapnut

I seem to recall they said Deer Run was going to be widened and a minor headwall eliminated. There’s still a long sidehill section in the middle that won’t be fun, like Belt Parkway at Hunter. Don’t you think it will be even more of a clusterfluff (I think I get what that means) after Highmount opens?

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