- Keep an eye out for a brand new urban gondola adjacent to the stadium during coverage of the final World Cup soccer match in Moscow.
- The Jay Peak receiver goes after the owner of six Quebec ski resorts for allegedly aiding and abetting fraud that followed the sale of its Vermont ski resort to a Florida businessman.
- Boston will spend $400,000 to study a gondola and other possible transportation options for the city’s Seaport district.
- Utah skier visits fell 9.6 percent compared with last year but were even with the state’s ten year average.
- Vermont visits rose 1.2 percent year over year to 3.97 million.
- New Hampshire Attorney General Gordon MacDonald says the state will have the final say in Vail Resorts’ announced takeover of Mt. Sunapee’s lease from Triple Peaks.
- The Oakland Zoo will more than double in size on July 12th thanks to an innovative gondola.
- SilverStar’s new gondola, recently dubbed the Schumann Summit Express, launches July 14th.
- The White River National Forest approves Vail’s Game Creek six place project. I’m still waiting to hear back from Vail Resorts about a construction timeline and manufacturer.
- A Branson, MO company is still talking about building a $260 million gondola system there.
- The second Doppelmayr Wir magazine of 2018 highlights the company’s quickest ever gondola construction project in the United States, Big Sky’s upcoming D-Line eight seater and a 2,800 pph gondola that requires no operators at all.
- Purgatory furloughs employees, reduces hours and eliminates some positions entirely as it remains closed due to the 416 Fire.
- Sebastian Monsour, the Australian developer who flew to Maine to announce his purchase of Saddleback, is arrested in Brisbane, accused of misusing $3.4 million in investor funds.
- Parts are everywhere at Wolf Creek for the upcoming Meadow detachable quad.
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Is Wolf Creek expanding with the Meadows lift or are they replacing one of their old lifts?
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New lift and runs near Alberta. Looks like it has only 8 towers.
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Would be nice to see Alberta upgraded to HS. It is one long slow ride up right now.
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