- The man who died on a Vail chairlift two weeks ago did not fall through a flipped up seat as initially believed.
- A key parcel between Deer Valley’s Snow Park and Silver Lake villages won’t include a gondola.
- The multi-stage gondola taking shape near Puerto Vallarta will feature angle stations and very tall towers in a tropical paradise.
- A ski area on Prince Edward Island closes due to lift problems.
- The Ascutney Outdoors model proves promising where a for-profit, high speed quad model failed.
- Arizona Snowbowl inches closer to reopening its summit lift.
- Alaska’s new ski area trying to get off the ground needs more money.
- The chairlift at Great Bear derails and gets rope evacuated.
- There was an evac at Swiss Valley the same day.
- Here are details on the upcoming Hermitage auction including removal deadlines, the proposed asset purchase agreement with Boyne and the original lift quote.
- Sugarloaf’s General Manager and VP of Mountain Operations join WSKI TV to break down Sugarloaf 2030 and plans for a D-Line lift.
- The Payette Lakes Ski Club begins fundraising to replace a 50 year old T-Bar.
- Woodward Park City visitation has been about as expected during the inaugural season.
- A child is injured in a fall from Northstar’s Vista Express.
- The City of Steamboat plans to sign with Doppelmayr for the new Barrows quad at Howelsen Hill.
- Wisconsin’s Christie Mountain is for sale.
- Inc. profiles two entrepreneurial owners pressing on independently at Wyoming’s two largest ski resorts.
- The Forest Service releases its Draft Environmental Assessment for Mission Ridge’s proposed expansion, which would include two two new quad chairs and two pulse gondolas.
- Jägerndorfer’s 2020 collection features the largest number of lift models ever.
- A man is critically injured in a fall from the Purgatory Village Express.
- Testing and analysis continues at Mont-Sainte-Anne. One of those injured last week tells his story.
- Two new products join the Ikon Pass lineup for 20/21. Stratton and Sugarbush will go unlimited while Aspen and Jackson Hole will be more restricted.
Lift Blog 
Wow, that guy I talked to at Mission Ridge was not BSing me about them wanting a gondola…
LikeLike
Sugarloaf just closed King Pine.
https://www.sugarloaf.com/lifts/king-pine-update
I caught the issue on video about 3 weeks ago:
LikeLiked by 4 people
Seems to be to be low tension when the lift is under heavy load. Wonder if something failed/is failing with the hydraulics.
LikeLike
Wouldn’t there be more noticeable/considerable sag if that were the case? I’d think they’d stop running it right away?
LikeLike
That portal tower was reused when the bottom drive was replaced in 2015.
LikeLike
Reused, but on new foundations. The climb-out is so shallow that I was surprised they kept it.
LikeLike
No- if that were the case the pressure switches and/or carriage limit switches should trip before anything drastic happened. Unless the tension system is set too low to begin with.
LikeLike
Meanwhile.. at Keystone in Colorado…
https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/mountains/mumps-outbreak-rises-to-26-cases-at-colorado-ski-resort
LikeLike
Elko Sno Bowl in Nevada has called it a season already..
LikeLike
Why close so early? Is Elko Snowbowl on public land?
LikeLike
They have not received a lot of snow and the trails are thin.
LikeLike
Hope ascutney has some better winters coming up… it’s hard to be only natural in New England now. Invested too big on the reopening, should probably have taken the strategy Magic took; slowly build back up to big profit
LikeLike