Shaun Sutner’s article does a reasonably good job at giving a high-level overview of what’s going on at Stratton. The established management group needs to decrease the gondola’s top on the present alignment, whereas the brand new management group needs to realign the elevate to go to the Mid Mountain Lodge (earlier than probably persevering with up Frank’s Fall Line to the summit). The issue is that each choices aren’t good options. The previous concept doesn’t totally tackle the wind problems with the present alignment whereas the latter concept fails to understand that the gondola’s present backside terminal is within the excellent location and dumping extra folks on the Mid Mountain Lodge will make Ursa a nightmare as soon as once more because it was pre-Snow Bowl Categorical.
One of the best resolution is to realign the gondola very barely to as an alternative finish on the Hubert Haus. Higher Normal is way extra wind protected on the looker’s left aspect of the path, and this nonetheless allows skiers to have a one seat experience to the highest with out overcrowding any explicit space. This concept was dismissed beneath Intrawest as a result of it’s way more costly than merely reducing the towers, however Alterra now has the capital to do no matter is important to enhance the skier expertise.
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