Berkshire East & Catamount: 3 New Lifts, Terrain Expansions

[crystalmountainskier]

Things get harder as it gets colder, and concrete takes longer to cure. Without knowing if the holdup is due to LP, BE or subcontractors, it is clearly evident to me why Doppelmayr has been dominating Northeast lift installs, they simply get them in when they are supposed. Both Attitash and BE are clearly struggling with their LP installs, which is odd considering their regional presence in VT.

Doppelmayr is crushing it this year everywhere.

 

[cdskier]

Doppelmayr is crushing it this year everywhere.

And they're doing a lot more installs than LP as well...almost twice as many (31 vs 17 if I counted right on liftblog's list).

 

[Newpylong]

It would seem there are numbers behind this impression as well.

Lift Blog

All about ski lifts, tramways and gondolas

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The Doppelmayr Group reported annual financial results today, and for the first time ever, North America surpassed Austria as the firm’s largest market. Privately-held Doppelmayr reported total revenue of €946 million (US$1.0 billion) in fiscal year 2022-23, an annual increase of 6.7 percent and near a record high for the 130 year old company. The United States and Canada accounted for 28 percent or approximately $280 million during the fiscal year, which ran from April 2022 through March 2023. The last year before Covid North America represented only 17 percent of global turnover while Doppelmayr’s domestic Austrian market comprised 24 percent of the business.

 

[drjeff]

It would seem there are numbers behind this impression as well.

Lift Blog

All about ski lifts, tramways and gondolas

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The Doppelmayr Group reported annual financial results today, and for the first time ever, North America surpassed Austria as the firm’s largest market. Privately-held Doppelmayr reported total revenue of €946 million (US$1.0 billion) in fiscal year 2022-23, an annual increase of 6.7 percent and near a record high for the 130 year old company. The United States and Canada accounted for 28 percent or approximately $280 million during the fiscal year, which ran from April 2022 through March 2023. The last year before Covid North America represented only 17 percent of global turnover while Doppelmayr’s domestic Austrian market comprised 24 percent of the business.

Crazy to think that with just the projects they're doing for Boyne across the country that their expenditures alone might very well be in the 20% +/- a couple of percentage points of those total North American revenues (not quite sure which year(s) they will put the cost of the Big Sky Tram into the ledger and how that affects this year/last year??

 

[machski]

Crazy to think that with just the projects they're doing for Boyne across the country that their expenditures alone might very well be in the 20% +/- a couple of percentage points of those total North American revenues (not quite sure which year(s) they will put the cost of the Big Sky Tram into the ledger and how that affects this year/last year??

The Tram, regardless of which year they book it, is followed in completion next year by the D-Line 10 pax gondi at Big Sky as well. That is not cheap ticket item either, with a mid-station angle to boot.

 

[RH29]

Concrete pour for the base is happening today. Visible on webcams

 

[The Sneak]

I will have ridden 4 different summit chairs there in the last 15 yrs, if this thing spins for 2023-24

 

[RH29]

Concrete pour for the base is happening today. Visible on webcams

Or not...still no visible concrete base on the webcam, though it looks like concrete is in the ground.

 

[Newpylong]

I will have ridden 4 different summit chairs there in the last 15 yrs, if this thing spins for 2023-24

Having 3 in at the same time is gonna look crazy too lol.

 

[urungus]

A few more trees have been chopped down

 

[Zand]

Why are they cutting down trees on that side of Competition? Thought the lift was going to start to the right of the lodge.

 

[urungus]

Why are they cutting down trees on that side of Competition? Thought the lift was going to start to the right of the lodge.

No it is going up lookers left / skiers right side of Competition

 

[Newpylong]

Waiting to cut down trees right before putting steel up. This has all the characteristics of a typical Schaffer half-baked project.

 

[jimmywilson69]

OOPS! we didn't clear the line correctly, Sorry about that

 

[ss20]

Waiting to cut down trees right before putting steel up. This has all the characteristics of a typical Schaffer half-baked project.

They have certainly cheaped out on stuff in the past 5ish years.

 

[RH29]

OOPS! we didn't clear the line correctly, Sorry about that

It seems like they put the concrete foundations too far left. The project plans seemed to have them further from the treeline. Pretty soon it'll be as ugly as Jiminy or Catamount.

 

[drjeff]

Wonder if it may also have a component of that hill being used as their primary race hill for races of many levels and the towers for the new lift necessitating some extra width for race safety as well?

I just looked up it's race hill homologation status to see if it was recently recertified and Upper/Lower Comp for bot GS and Slalom aren't set to be recertified until November of 2026 FWIW

 

[Newpylong]

One of my original concerns was what was going to happen to the trees between Comp and Liftline as Comp is homologated and those towers can't interfere with that. It actually was the trail I received Super G training on going way back. They had a jump right on the flat going down the last pitch. Pucker factor high.

 

[Zand]

Hopefully they can leave upper Comp/Liftline alone. The last section wasn't really all that special. Pretty flat. But would be a shame if the top half of Liftline is butchered.

 

[drjeff]

Picture just put up on their social media feeds of towers being flown this afternoon