Recent content by Magna999

Agree on the positioning to Alterra and Frankly, I think that would be a great thing for future of this resort. Look at Hunter as an example..... Sent from my iPhone using AlpineZone

Sadly, a view from their Main 6 pack showing the uncompleted new snowmaking on Whistler. I feel bad for them, and their limited crew who I know is doing what they can. Seem understaffed and overwhelmed. Sent from my iPhone using AlpineZone

Some may say this is a tough message but I can tell you as a pass-holder for years this is an accurate assessment on how much of the pass-holder community feels. They are way behind this year in particular the snowmaking construction still ongoing halfway up Whistler, and C lift seems to have...

Woke up today to an Open Letter email from the Windham Mountain community with a rather on point open letter about customer sentiment and frustrations with their Mgmt. Anyone else receive this? Thoughts? Sent from my iPhone using AlpineZone

The teams at Windham and Dopp did a good job to get their new lift up and operational ahead of the busy holiday period. BUT, yesterday was a total calamity. The new lift shut down due to a required “tensioning adjustment” and folks were stranded for about an hour on the lift. Word from the staff...

Lots of folks who are pass holders don’t get it. Their marketing/media Dept should be maximizing the great news. They clearly have a contract with Dopp and hopefully they come begin real work at Windham after they finish up at Hunter or other regional jobs. Let’s hope they actually get this done...

Back up at Windham this week and not seeing much progress on new F lift not have they seemed to get more parts for the lift. No towers cross arms, or chairs seem to be at staging zone. Would be great to know the contract schedule with the Dopp team. Windham missing an incredible opportunity to...

Happened to be at Windham today with hopes of Mountain Biking but, to my summer surprise A lift was down for electrical issues, and no access to mountain. What’s even worse was they had a wedding scheduled for mountain top and had to relocate the ceremony to the base entryway overlooking the...

G Lift Down Again... G Lift down as of 10am on what is clearly their busiest day this season.

MT Snow lift repair Transperency Here is another great example of lift ops transperency. Windham should follow their lead.. https://www.mountsnow.com/our-media/blog/mount-snow/bluebird-updates

Windham makes big announcement today. A base-to-summit six-passenger chairlift is coming to Windham Mountain in the Catskill Mountains of New York. The mile-long Doppelmayr system will replace the Whistler triple, a 1983 VonRoll triple with a ten-plus minute ride. A parallel detachable quad...

At least Hunter is communicating their lift issues - Windham needs to do same - Dear Season Passholder, The past week and a half has been a whirlwind for us here. As we were ramping up for President’s Weekend, one of our worst fears occurred: the Kaatskill Flyer went down due to what ended up...

Park city had some major issues with Dopp CTEC back is mid 2000’s and they were very transparent with the community around the issues and how they were addressing the entire lift fleet to modernize. Also, there are some great examples of east coast resorts sharing background around lift...

Preventative Your correct and wasn’t suggesting it an easy coast west coast thing, but the point is some resorts choose to educate and provide total transparency on lift ops, maintenance and planning. I cited Park city because when they had issues with their C-Tec lifts they were very...