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No need for helicopters this time
The new Wildhorse gondola cabins are tall enough to stand in.
Tom Ross
09-02-2009
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A new ski lift in Steamboat typically translates into a very large whirly-bird hauling heavy iron over the Steamboat base area. But there won’t be a need for a helicopter in October when towers for the Wildhorse gondola are set.

“I was pushing for a helicopter but everything’s accessible,” Resort Ventures West Director of Sales and Marketing Kerry Shea said. “They can just come in there with cranes.”

The public Wildhorse gondola being built by Resort Ventures West, developers of Wildhorse Meadows, won’t deliver people to the top of a ski run. However, it promises to change the face of the Steamboat gondola transit center when it becomes operational no later than February, Shea said. The gondola will move arriving skiers and snowboarders from Trailhead Lodge, First Tracks, The Range and the Meadows parking lot to Gondola Square and ski area lifts including the Steamboat gondola and Christy Peak Express.

Before they arrive in an upper terminal in the new One Steamboat Place development, the six-passenger gondola cabins will cross over automobile traffic on Mount Werner Circle.

The gondola is different from the Steamboat gondola – the new pulse gondola will comprise four groups of two cabins. The lift will stop for loading and unloading when a group of cabins arrives at the terminal.

The trip will take about four minutes, Shea said.

There is the potential to increase uphill capacity with additional cars. The new gondola will be free to the public; expect to see a separate lift line that favors Wildhorse owners and guest, not unlike the ski school line at the ski area lifts.

The new gondola will ride on 10 towers. Concrete bases some of the towers were poured this week. The gondola is being built by Leitner-Poma at its Grand Junction manufacturing facility.

At Trailhead Lodge on Wednesday, inspectors from the Routt County Regional Building Department were making final inspections.

The lap pool is complete and has been filled. Workers were adjusting the placement of natural stones in the hot tub grotto Wednesday to ensure the flow in waterfall feature is dialed in before the stones are mortared into place.

Shea said Resort Ventures West has seen seven of 63 contracted condominiums sell thus far. He expects another series of closings within the next two weeks, but acknowledges getting financing in places has been a lengthy process for buyers.
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