- Sugarloaf Mountain Resort announces a new director of lifts to oversee maintenance and operations after two high-profile lift accidents. He’s not exactly a Boyne Resorts outsider.
- Finally some news from Saddleback; the owners are in negotiations with four potential buyers and this season may or may not happen. Talk about bad press.
- Group hoping to reopen the Antelope Butte ski area near Sheridan, Wyoming will make a down payment to the Forest Service within two weeks. The area has two Riblet double chairs that last operated in 2004.
- Switzerland sets the maximum blood-alcohol content for a person operating a cable car at 0.05% (the same limit as for drunk driving there.)
- A national park in South Korea may be getting a $39 million 10-passenger gondola, the country’s 155th ropeway. South Korea will also be hosting the next Winter Olympics.
- Parts for the new Ptarmigan lift are on site at Loveland, CO.
- Mont Cascades in Quebec makes solid progress on replacing their TC double chair with a Doppelmayr quad.
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