January 2008
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Lifts 2007 :: It Was a Good Year
Lift manufacturers were busy last year installing almost 25 percent more uphill transportation than the previous season. CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD A PDF OF THE ARTICLE. Rather than keep you in suspense, let’s cut right to the chase—there were a total of 41 chairlifts, gondolas and platters installed in 2007, representing a VTFH of 85,393, which is about a 25 percent increase over last year. Not too shabby. Not too shabby at all. (Note: VTFH measures the number of skiers who can be transported 1,000 feet vertically in one hour. It is arrived at by multiplying the vertical rise in feet by the capacity in people-per-hour and divided by 1,000.)Why the big jump? Well, there ...
For this edition of Mountain Spy, our 007 Liz Eren posed as a college journalist writing an article. She started her query with that information and said that she had a simple question to ask, giving the person on the other end of the line an immediate opportunity to transfer her, or not. Most did not, which worked in some instances, not in others.
BURTON POACHERS PROTEST RESORT BANS... RCR CANCELS ITS BIGGEST HITS... SAFETY ADVICE FOR TERRAIN PARKS... WHAT HAPPENS IN ASPEN, STAYS IN ASPEN... WOULD UTAH WANT AN ASPEN, ANYWAY?... MICHIGAN AREAS DODGE TAX BULLET... H2B SOLUTION IS NOT TO BE... WACHUSETT SUED FOR BEING CONSIDERING... NEW PRODUCTS AT SIA... SHORTSWINGS
