Arapahoe Basin Announces Lenawee Express 6-Pack For 2022, Snowmaking Starts For Winter

A-Basin has signed a deal with Leitner Poma to replace Lenawee Lift in the summer of 2022. A-Basin will be removing the 2001 Triple Chairlift and installing a brand new Detachable 6-pack Chairlift. In addition to 6-packs being more stable in high winds, this lift will do the best job of increasing capacity. 

CEO Alan Henceroth said:

"We are excited to announce that A-Basin has signed a deal with Leitner Poma to replace Lenawee Lift in the summer of 2022. We will be removing the 2001 Triple Chairlift and installing a brand new Detachable 6-pack Chairlift. In addition to 6-packs being more stable in high winds, we felt this lift would do the best job of increasing capacity. Through our planning we felt the need to upgrade the capacity of Lenawee from 1800 people per hour (pph) to 2400 pph. While this could technically be achieved with a quad chair, we felt that in actual use, the 6-pack would be far more effective achieving that goal of 2400 pph. We all know Lenawee lift lines get backed up now and again. This lift will do a great job of knocking those lines down and spreading people out better."

He also discussed the great start to the season's snowmaking over nights from 9th October

• The Snowmakers had another great night. They have made substantial progress on High Noon. Conditions this evening look so-so, but beginning Tuesday night, the forecast for snowmaking looks really good the rest of the week. Good enough, that I am getting a little excited.
• That was a fantastic night. It got cold with a wet bulb temperature of 21F. The Snowmakers had a very successful session and are still going strong as I write. We anticipate turning off sometime today, but tonight could be another good session and more are expected through the week. On top of that, we have had 5 or 6 inches of natural snow which is nothing, but great news for snowmaking. Often snowmaking starts with a lot of baby steps. Last night was a big, big step.
• We skipped snowmaking last night. The temperatures were so-so. We could have made a little snow, but chose to delay to conserve water. The forecast still looks great the next few days. Water is not unlimited. We chose to skip the small snowmaking opportunity and save the water for the big opportunity coming today. Later today we will turn the guns back on. We should have an excellent session.