{"id":20294,"date":"2019-11-25T11:54:17","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T18:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/?p=61731"},"modified":"2019-11-25T11:54:17","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T18:54:17","slug":"new-gondola-closes-due-to-malfunction-day-after-opening-might-not-be-in-operation-for-busy-holiday-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/local-news\/new-gondola-closes-due-to-malfunction-day-after-opening-might-not-be-in-operation-for-busy-holiday-week\/","title":{"rendered":"New gondola closes due to malfunction day after opening; might not be in operation for busy holiday week"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Flurries of snow fall over the new gondola at Steamboat Resort on Thursday. Grand opening celebrations for the faster gondola will start at 7:30 a.m. Saturday with free mimosas and donuts.<\/strong>
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STEAMBOAT SPRINGS \u2014 With a busy holiday week ahead, it is uncertain if the new gondola will be in operation at Steamboat Resort following a malfunction Sunday.<\/p>\n

The new gondola, which fully opened to the public Saturday<\/a>, experienced a mechanical malfunction at about 4:45 p.m. Sunday, according to Maren Franciosi, digital communications manager for Steamboat Ski & Resort Corp.<\/p>\n

The malfunction occurred on the drive line to the gear box in the upper terminal. Its cause is currently being assessed by resort officials and employees of Doppelmayr Garaventa Group, the Austria-based manufacturer of the gondola. As crews work to fix the issue, the gondola will not be in operation.<\/p>\n

\u201c(It was) identified as a mechanical issue, not a safety issue,\u201d Franciosi said Monday morning.<\/p>\n

There were no guests on the gondola at the time it stopped working but two cabins were occupied with about seven employees. Franciosi said backup motors were used to get them safely unloaded.<\/p>\n

Tests were conducted last month<\/a> by the Colorado Passenger Tramway Safety Board ahead of the gondola\u2019s opening, but nothing was noticed at that point, according to Franciosi. Likewise, there were no issues Saturday or Sunday while the resort was open.<\/p>\n

A timeline for the gondola\u2019s repair is currently unknown, but the resort has opened the Thunderhead Express for guests to access the open terrain.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll take as much time as necessary to fix it to ensure it\u2019s not a problem in the future,\u201d Franciosi said.<\/p>\n

Dave Hunter, vice president of operations at the resort, was at the site of the gondola Monday with Doppelmayr crews and couldn\u2019t immediately comment.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe appreciate our guests understanding as we identify the root cause of the issue and take the time necessary to fix it,\u201d Franciosi said. \u201cWhen we have more information on a timeline for reopening we will update guests and staff.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Flurries of snow fall over the new gondola at Steamboat Resort on Thursday. Grand opening celebrations for the faster gondola will start at 7:30 a.m. Saturday with free mimosas and donuts.Steamboat Pilot STEAMBOAT SPRINGS \u2014 With a busy holiday week ahead, it is uncertain if the new gondola will be in operation at Steamboat Resort […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20294","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-16 03:06:38","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KRKY Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}