- Big Powderhorn Mountain Resort is for sale with an asking price of $2.4 million.
- Marquette Mountain finds a new owner.
- Arizona Snowbowl plans to reopen Agassiz in early March.
- A girl was lucky to fall from Park City’s Town lift where it crosses Park Avenue and has catch netting.
- Crystal Mountain, BC won’t reopen this winter but may add a new lift this summer in addition to reactivating a T-Bar for next year.
- Doppelmayr will build Saddleback a new detachable quad, which will have a ride time under five minutes and run in the same alignment as Rangeley.
- A real estate brokerage is hired to market the Hermitage properties in advance of next month’s auction.
- Three Whistler Blackcomb leaders respond to the Make Whistler Great Again petition with a video about what it takes to run such a massive ski area.
- French lift staff go on strike.
- Nonprofit Ski Cooper has become quite profitable in recent years, allowing it to make significant upgrades.
- Despite late deliveries and winter work, Skeetawk lift construction chugs along.
- Reopening day at the Sea to Sky Gondola sets a new visitation record.
- Nordic Valley wants to build its new lift as soon as this summer.
- With two prominent new gondola systems recently opened at private venues in Florida, Miami area leaders look to gondola transit.
- Last week’s death was not the first time someone fell through chair with a flipped up seat at Vail and Beaver Creek. It also happened on the very same lift in 2009.
- Removal of a second lift begins at Timberline in preparation for this summer’s new construction.
- In a letter to passholders, Nub’s Nob announces the retirement of Blue effective at the end of this season.
- The Berry Family tells the inside story of why it took so long to sell Saddleback and reveals another ski area offered $3 million for the lifts.
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How would do a rescue operation from the Mokpo gondola?!
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Wow, you got to Michigan just in time to get pictures of the Blue Chair.
Also, did you see that the Palmer lift at Timberline had some trouble recently?
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Gotta love the Vail Daily article. Story about an incident on the Skyline Express lift runs with a header picture of the Mountaintop Express lift.
Honestly, I think it might be hard to try to bring a suit against the ski area for the death.
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