- Owner of Echo Mountain files for bankruptcy but will keep operating the closest ski area to Denver.
- Saddleback, Maine won’t be open in time for February vacation week.
- Big Tupper, NY pulls the plug on this season entirely.
- Aspen Highlands looks to expand into Loge Bowl, with the possibility of eventually adding a lift.
- A quick-thinking 7 year-old hangs onto a dangling classmate for two minutes, long enough for resort staff to make a successful catch from a chair in Ontario. Canada requires nets to be out and ready whenever a lift is in operation for just this reason.
- Aspen Highlands chair pusher finally arrested and identified as a 31-year old local man with a history of mental illness. He’s charged with felony assault and misdemeanor reckless endangerment but will go to a treatment facility instead of jail. The investigation also reveals a 19-year old lift operator saw the 25-foot fall and hit an e-stop but didn’t report it.
- Gizmodo tackles urban gondolas, revealing La Paz carries 100,000 commuters a day on its 3 aerial lines.
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