New Belleayre lift updates?

[tnt1234]

Anyone have an update on the new lift 7?

Is that going to be detatchable?

 

[FBGM]

Dopp fixed grip quad per lift blog

 

[jaytrem]

Chairs are on...

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[cdskier]

1.8K views · 80 reactions | Chairs are on the new Lift 7! | CHAIRS. ARE. ON!! The new “Lift 7” looks more and more like one each day. It won’t be long until the new Doppelmayr fixed-grip quad is complete! | By Belleayre Mountain | Facebook

CHAIRS. ARE. ON!! The new “Lift 7” looks more and more like one each day. It won’t be long until the new Doppelmayr fixed-grip quad is complete!

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Chairs are on already as well per today's update...

They also added another 250 HKD Impulse R5 tower guns to their arsenal this summer...

 

[tnt1234]

Awesome...why don't they put the safety bars on when they put the chairs on?

 

[urungus]

Improvements for 2024-2025

https://www.belleayre.com/mountain/improvements/

 

[ss20]

Improvements for 2024-2025

https://www.belleayre.com/mountain/improvements/

A Reimagined Learning Experience
The earliest steps to becoming a lifelong skier and rider include that initial experience of sliding on snow, and it’s imperative to make it a positively memorable one. During this summer, a brand new novice learning area will be installed at the summit of Belleayre, near the Catskill Thunder Gondola. Featuring a wide open space and a carpet lift, it will provide a mellow, consistent grade that will help aspiring snow sliders make their first turns. The location of the new learning area will also allow Belleayre to have first-timer terrain available for virtually the entire ski and ride season, instead of waiting for cold snowmaking temperatures on the lowest, warmest part of the mountain in the early season and then melting out first in the spring. By having it at the top, it can be opened up in similar fashion to trails such as Dot Nebel and Seneca when the season begins in mid to late November. Plus, it gives the first time guests incredible views of the Catskill Mountains as they ride up the Gondola, surrounding themselves with other more experienced skiers, and feeling more among their fellow mountain adventurists.

The beginner’s area won’t be the only thing that is new in appearance at the top of the mountain. As you make your way back to the Gondola, a new structure will have been added to the top terminal – a maintenance garage for the gondola cabins! Belleayre’s lift maintenance crew will now be able to work on cabins for the Catskill Thunder Gondola without having to remove and transport them away from the lift. Adding approximately 1,440 square feet, it will be able to house 3-4 cabins at a time, as well as have space for ski patrol use.

Weird coming from an Eastern ski area but OK. Just hope none of those people try their luck skiing all the way down at the end of the day...

This definitely falls in-line with the ORDA's current operating strategy of absolutely burning money on way over the top answers to non existent problems. Like that new angle'd hsq at Whiteface... which I still can't believe they built. Also never thought I'd ride a gondola at Belleayre but I did.

 

[Newpylong]

The angle quad at Whiteface is one of the most ridiculous things I have ever witnessed at a ski area.

This Bellwhere summit learning area is interesting. From a cost standpoint it shouldn't become a boondoggle, but if it were my hill I would only run that carpet until Christmas or until the Learning Quad/Discovery Center can be opened. I'd imagine no one wants to shlep their kids up top any longer than they have to.

 

[jaytrem]

This Bellwhere summit learning area is interesting. From a cost standpoint it shouldn't become a boondoggle, but if it were my hill I would only run that carpet until Christmas or until the Learning Quad/Discovery Center can be opened. I'd imagine no one wants to shlep their kids up top any longer than they have to.

Yeah, schelping can be a pain. But I can see how it would be more exciting to be at the top of the hill, and kids will no doubt love the gondola ride. I think that one might have been my kids' first gondola ride.

 

[x10003q]

I wonder where they think the beginners are going to do when they need an indoor weather/food/ rest break. The Sunset Lodge is about 1/2 mile of poling from the top of the gondola. Belleayre is adding a restroom right next to the new gondola repair/ski patrol building that is being added this summer. ORDA probably could have found a beginner trail location near the mid-mountain Overlook Lodge instead of the top of Belleayre, but that would be the smart thing to do.