- The owner of West Mountain, NY tells the local paper there’s a 25 percent chance both of his new-used lifts will be finished this summer. At least he’s honest!
- Some taxpayers are calling for Steamboat’s Howelsen Hill to abandon its Heron-Poma double after a landslide took out a tower.
- North America is getting its first Doppelmayr RopeCon at the El Limon gold mine under construction in Mexico.
- Indonesia’s first urban gondola will break ground in July.
- “Gondolas are already being used in areas with ice and snow,” says group wanting to build $20 million gondola in Buffalo, NY.
- (Some of) The cities that use ski lifts.
- Intrawest Exec says it costs $10 million to put in a new chairlift.
- Court of appeals in Australia reverses $1.4 million judgement against Perisher by doctor who was hit by a chair’s armrest while loading.
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