- Skier visits at Vail Resorts are down 7.8 percent for the season through January 5th, attributed to slow starts at Whistler Blackcomb and Stevens Pass.
- Agassiz at Arizona Snowbowl was evacuated over MLK weekend and remains down.
- Visits and revenue continue to decline at the publicly-owned mountain in Newfoundland called Marble Mountain.
- It takes a ton of work to reopen lifts, particularly detachable ones, at Mt. Snow after an ice storm.
- By building a T-Bar instead of a chairlift, Ski Cooper was able to implement a major expansion this season for around $2 million.
- Mont St. Mathieu opens another $2 million T-Bar expansion, noting a chairlift would have cost more and moved skiers less quickly.
- The Snowpark expansion at Montana Snowbowl is a hit and LaValle is back open.
- Software problems lead to the closure of the new Morning Star Express at Bogus Basin (now back open.)
- BC’s Jumbo Glacier becomes an indigenous protected area, ending plans for a new ski resort there.
- Vail Resorts will pay out $200 bonuses to employees who refer new applicants to become lift operators at 14 resorts.
- The State of Illinois shuts down a ski resort, alleging required inspections weren’t completed prior to opening. In a statement, Snowstar apologizes to season passholders and says an inspector failed to show up. At least one lift will reopen today.
- Parks Canada axes plans for a Mt. Norquay gondola.
- Josh Elliott, the teen who jumped after becoming stranded on a Sugar Mountain chairlift in 2016, tells his harrowing story on the Outside podcast.
- Mt. Jefferson, Maine won’t open this season.
- New York State plans to spend $147 million to improve its ski areas.
- Bromont ropes down more than 200 people from the Express du Village, some after being stuck four and a half hours.
- Edmonton releases the preliminary economic and technical assessment for the Prairie Sky urban gondola.
- Siemens highlights a design software partnership with Doppelmayr.
Lift Blog 
Montana Snowbowl’s new chairlift has a Poma top drive instead of a Riblet one.
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The lift is the former Burlingame lift from Snowmass, it had been upgraded with a Poma drive from Fanny hill lift when the former was replaced with by the village six. I believe Snowbowl has the old High alpine lift to, though they have not installed it yet.
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Mt Snow article…good lord: “Fixed-grip chairs are welded to the cables and don’t come off.”
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Where?
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Ok looks like it’s time to replace Agassiz at Snowbowl with that LPA Chondola
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Seems to be a lot of late-model Doppelmayr detachables experiencing downtime this (and last) season. Very odd…
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For the upcoming roundup, you should probably mention that the ski industry was the topic of the latest Wendover Productions video:
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Arizona Snowbowl Agassiz lift evacuation – In Flagstaff there has been no mention of the evacuation, not in the news, cover up, should have been in local paper. Just that the lift is closed till further notice. I heard currently they are waiting for x ray equipment to diagnose problem.
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