Articles tagged with: ski lifts

Work crews in the Gstaad ski area are currently constructing a new quad chairlift and a new gondola, as well as more snowmaking of course, in order to offer an improved experience to skiers and boarders next winter.

The…

Chile’s Valle Nevado opens for its 2010 ski season this week with two new lifts allowing the creation of five new intermediate and advanced difficulty slopes including blue, red and black runs.

One of the ski-lifts is…

Finland’ Pyhä ski area is spending 8 million Euros on upgrades this summer, the bulk of it on a high speed detachable six-seater chairlift with weather protection hood, only the second of this type of high capacity lift in…

Vail, which already operates more quad chairlifts than any other resort on the planet, will add another one next winter when it replaces the High Noon Lift (Chair 5) with the new high-speed quad chair, the resort’s…

The tiny Swiss village of Tenna will launch the world’s second ski lift powered entirely by solar energy in December 2010.

The lift’s solar panels will have the capacity to generate 90,000KWh of power, more than enough to supply…

2013 World Alpine Ski Championships venue Schladming, which installed the first eight-seater chairlift in the province of Styria last season, has announced that it will install a second in time for next winter.

After the success of the Marchenweise…