Wachusett New Lift progress?

[The Sneak]

Was there the other day. From a far the lift looked to be nearly done, no chairs on line. There were men on the roof working on a big parking barn for the chairs. That’s something Superstar doesn’t have. To be honest, they didn’t make much progress on the parking barn while I was skiing.

My experience as well last wknd

 

[machski]

The parking barn should not interfere with the balance of the lift. Big Sky has added those a season after new lifts have opened. Makes me wonder if Wachusett tried to go cheap on the install or standard and K bought up to get expedited install.

 

[drjeff]

The parking barn should not interfere with the balance of the lift. Big Sky has added those a season after new lifts have opened. Makes me wonder if Wachusett tried to go cheap on the install or standard and K bought up to get expedited install.

Kind of doubt the Crowley family "went cheap" on the lift. They definitely don't appear to scrimp on anything the way they run their mountain

 

[thetrailboss]

The parking barn should not interfere with the balance of the lift. Big Sky has added those a season after new lifts have opened. Makes me wonder if Wachusett tried to go cheap on the install or standard and K bought up to get expedited install.

I heard the price and I would not call it "cheap" by any means. From what I have been seeing and hearing, I would expect that Leitner Poma would have bid lower, but ask Alta how Sunnyside went.....Alta lost a ton of ski school revenue due to the 2-month+ delay in completion of the lift. Poma did not have enough help to get the job done and Alta literally had their staff putting things together. That's pretty bad.

 

[machski]

Kind of doubt the Crowley family "went cheap" on the lift. They definitely don't appear to scrimp on anything the way they run their mountain

Well, they were offered a sweetheart deal by Dopp during the COVID year to replace that lift with the 6 now going in. Bet they wish they had pulled the trigger back then, guessing the tag doubled at least since then. Doubt they cheaped out on the lift, but if there was an price differential for priority install, betting they didn't pay for that. Not sure there is, but K's machine got done pretty fast and not like Dopp was swapping out a Dopp machine already in that line.