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European ski resorts installing new lifts for next season include: Ischgl and Kitzbühel in Austria; Crans-Montana in Switzerland; Cortina d’Ampezzo, Val di Fiemme/Obereggen, Alta Badia, Val Gardena/Alpe di Sius, Val di Fassa and Alta Pusteria in Italy....
In Ischgl (Austria) the six-passenger Fimbabahn gondola, which rises from the village, is being replaced with a two-stage eight-passenger model with heated seats. The new lift, expected to be completed in time for the 2007-08 season, will be able to carry 2,800 people every hour. It will cover the first stage in 6.7 minutes, and the second stage in 8.4 minutes....In Kitzbühel (Austria), a new eight-seater high speed chairlift is replacing two fixed-grip double lifts (C6 and C1). The new detachable chairlift, Steinbergkogel, will feature bubble chairs with enclosures and heated seats, will able to carry 3,255 people every hour and will ascend 1,716 vertical feet in 5 minutes.
In Crans-Montana (Switzerland), a new chairlift, the Nationale, is being built ready for next winter. It will replace a shorter existing chairlift and will be able to carry 3,000 people an a hour. The new lift will reduce the journey time by half to less than 7 minutes. The loading area will be lowered to the Marolires station to facilitate links with other sections of the resort, and a mid-station will be installed at an altitude of 1,900m to reduce the effects of low snow cover.
The Dolomiti Superski region (Italy) has announced that several new ski lifts are under construction and scheduled for completion in time for the 2007-08 season:
In Cortina d’Ampezzo, a new covered detachable quad chairlift, the Taiarezze-Malon, will replace the Taiarezze-Fedo double chairlift; Val di Fiemme/Obereggen is installing a new covered detachable quad chairlift, the Prafiori, to replace a lift in Alpe Cermis; in Alta Badia, a new detachable quad chairlift, the Sponata, will replace an existing double chairlift; Val Gardena/Alpe di Sius is installing a new detachable quad, the Sole, to replace an existing triple chairlift; in Val di Fassa, a new eight-passenger gondola, the Toè – Col dei Rossi, will replace an existing detachable quad; and Alta Pusteria is installing a new eight-passenger gondola in the Croda Rossa ski area and is also renovating its Lärchen lift.
Perhaps you know of a new lift planned for your favourite resort?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Also from Merinet the Tognette 2 above Meribel is being replaced, I seem to remember reading somewhere else with a chair.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Some info on more lifts being installed in France this year at this website (in French translated by Google).
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Thanks for the translations, Rob. Very amusing!
"C? is a chair-lift of “hooligans” because rare are the people going down again keeps it corp."
"...the motor coach tension is upstream."
"... it is true that the station swallows in winter when there is much snow one does not have too much even, like the tk dimensioned snowpark a little low."
"would somebody have an idea of have why there to change the pylons?"
"The seats are certainements removed so that the bad weather does not make a dégats on the installation."
"And I will add that that costs….a certain sum:)"
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Thanks for the translation, nevapress. A highlight from that translation:
"Gutiérrez Lump emphasized that “she will shorten the times of delay in the Seat of Andalusia and will end the tails at the moments end, since she duplicates the cargo capacity of the Al-Andalus repair”."
Has anyone met Mr or Mrs Lump, by any chance?
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Mariano Gutierrez Terrón. (Man)
Lamp is the translation of Terrón, but his real surname is Terrón
It's the problem of to translate with google! 
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David Goldsmith, maybe we need a journalist to do this type of work  or maybe the rest of us are happy with the notifications we receive whether translated or not ?
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Personally I like the translations, so I'd stick with the Gobblegoogle fluent in Double Dutch.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Wengen is replacing the Honegg draglift with a 6 seater covered detachable chairlift, and lots of new snowmaking facilities around the Kleine Scheidegg.
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Televerbier are replacing the La Tzoumaz - Savoleyres bubble.
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You know it makes sense.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Val Cenis is carrying on the tradition of installing a new lift each year, this years project is the TSD6 de l'Arcelle which will provide a good link back to the cardinal chair. Sadly they have also decomissioned the Ts de La Berche 2 man chair, but most people may be glad to see the back of that one, the steepest exit ramp i've come across, which usually caught people out.
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Poster: A snowHead
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La Rosiere is rumoured to be replacing the rubber on the tread of the last step up to the Front de Neige.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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You need to Login to know who's really who.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| Frosty the Snowman wrote: |
| La Rosiere is rumoured to be replacing the rubber on the tread of the last step up to the Front de Neige. |
The above rubber tread has been cancelled as the budget was used to buy paint for advertising on the road surface for Le Tour passing thru 
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Bansko Bulgaria is installing a new chairlift and restaurant at Chalin Valog (gondola mid-station) as well as snowmaking on those runs. Believed it is to service the runs previously accessed by the now removed pomas as well as new run(s) being cut
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stevew, definately tougnette top section was being replaced with a chair i walked past the construction last week 
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Serre Che is adding another 6-man chair, in the Chantemerle sector (as usual)
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Crans Montana is replacing and extending the Nationale chair at long bloody last!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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stanton, as a matter of interest, do you wind up the Jerries too?
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You know it makes sense.
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British disease, e.g. poor management (over many years), lack of customer focus (over decades) and most of all poor planning, investment and no publicity. Just look at the (ex) British car industry to see another example, what's left now under foreign management and doing very nicely thank you (MINI in Oxford, the old Morris Cowley factory and subsequently BL then Rover, being one example).
It didn't have to be this way but I'm afraid, sad though it makes me to say it, Cairngorm is a lost cause now 
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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