{"id":801087,"date":"2019-11-06T14:49:58","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T21:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=374078"},"modified":"2019-11-06T14:49:58","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T21:49:58","slug":"forest-service-approves-replacement-of-loveland-ski-areas-lift-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/forest-service-approves-replacement-of-loveland-ski-areas-lift-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Forest Service approves replacement of Loveland Ski Area\u2019s Lift 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/loveland-SDN-102619-1-1024x683.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/loveland-SDN-102619-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/loveland-SDN-102619-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/loveland-SDN-102619-1-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><figcaption><strong>Waiting for a ride on Chet&#8217;s Dream, skiers and snowboarders celebrate opening day at Loveland Ski Area on Friday, Oct. 25.<\/strong><br \/><em>Liz Copan \/ ecopan@summitdaily.com<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>LOVELAND SKI AREA \u2014 The Arapaho National Forest has approved Loveland Ski Area\u2019s plans to replace the 40-year-old Lift 6. The current lift is a double chair and will be replaced with either a triple or quad chair with the goal of being to increase the capacity of the chairlift.<\/p>\n<p>The chair replacement is expected to increase lift service capacity from 1,200 skiers per hour up to as many as 2,400 skiers per hour, according to a news release from the U.S. Forest Service.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The new lift will be built along the same alignment of the current lift with two support towers being removed. That is expected to minimize environmental damage and ease stress on the wetlands, according to the release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWinter sports activities are vital to our local communities, culture and economy,\u201d Clear Creek District ranger Scott Haas said in the statement. \u201cWe\u2019re pleased to enable the Loveland Ski Area to sustainably and responsibly serve more skiers and snowboarders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/forest-service-approves-replacement-of-loveland-ski-areas-lift-6\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waiting for a ride on Chet&#8217;s Dream, skiers and snowboarders celebrate opening day at Loveland Ski Area on Friday, Oct. 25.Liz Copan \/ ecopan@summitdaily.com LOVELAND SKI AREA \u2014 The Arapaho National Forest has approved Loveland Ski Area\u2019s plans to replace the 40-year-old Lift 6. The current lift is a double chair and will be replaced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-801087","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-01 11:04:43","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":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=801087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}