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- The state of Utah hosted 4.5 million skier visits last season, a new record credited in part to the “Vail effect” and six new lifts.
- The Boston Globe autopsies New England’s nightmare season.
- Bloomberg Businessweek talks urban ropeway growth with Doppelmayr and Poma, so does The Wall Street Journal.
- Snowbird’s tram track cable replacement project is finished a week early.
- Disneyland will demolish historic VonRoll Skyway terminal to make way for Star Wars Land.
- Fatzer finishes six 27,000 foot ropes for the world’s longest 3S, set to open in 2017 in the Gulf of Thailand.
- Powdr buys Eldora.
- Jay Peak works on a plan to get its grounded tram running sometime this summer.
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Too bad about the Disneyland skyride terminal. I have fond memories of that ride as a kid growing up in Southern California. There was something oddly compelling about the small Bavarian themed skyride terminal and the nearby Matterhorn ride that stuck with me while living in the land of perpetual sunshine, freeways and sagebrush. I think it was this little slice of Switzerland in Orange County, CA that inspired a life-long love of skiing when I finally got introduced to the sport at age 16.
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