- Austria’s Saalbach, Zell am See-Kaprun, Mayrhofen, Hintertux and Silvretta Montafon join the Epic Pass as partner resorts, bringing Epic to nine European destinations.
- Poma releases its 2024 Reference Book highlighting projects around the world.
- Eaglecrest may not meet a 2028 deadline to complete its used pulse gondola.
- America’s only summer only ski area will open this year for the first time in three.
- Whaleback meets a $250,000 fundraising goal for lift repairs.
- Opposition organizes against proposed Grand Targhee expansion.
- Bluewood, Washington to sell chairs if its new lift project is on track by September 1st.
- Hawaii’s first gondola is proposed on the North Shore of Oahu.
- A gondola is floated for Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
- Also Anaheim, California.
- Marmot Basin’s visitation drops 30 percent due to last year’s fire in Jasper.
- Silver Mountain delays summer opening due to gondola repairs.
- Timberline Helicopters, the company that installs the majority of lift towers in the West, breaks ground on a $13 million expansion in North Idaho.
- The nonprofit organization that’s been trying to revive Cuchara, Colorado inks a 40 year operating lease for the mountain.
- Vail Mountain intends to begin work on the lift projects I wrote about last week next summer, subject to Forest Service approval.
- President Trump proposes a 50 percent tariff on imports from the European Union starting June 1st.
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“Vail Mountain intends to begin work on the lift projects I wrote about last week next summer, subject to Forest Service approval.” What lifts is Vail wanting to build?
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Orient Express 6 pack and a Little Eagle high speed quad.
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Beartooth Basin is sure an interesting place, and someday I’d like to get out there. Until then, I’ll use Chair 23 until it’s closed (sometime in June this year).
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Newer article released about Cuchara just after Peter posted the news roundup.
https://www.denver7.com/follow-up/with-operating-agreement-and-money-in-place-lift-powered-skiing-at-cuchara-in-2025-26-is-in-sight
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references a contractor in the pacific northwest doing some work on Lift 4 to get it ready to pass inspection by the state.. Wondering if it might be Superior Tramway in Washington, given Lift 4 is a Riblet.. that would be cool.
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Thanks for not glossing over the tariffs. The current tariffs are already extremely hard for the manufacturers and buyers, and 50% will be impossible to shoulder. With the way the supply chains work for lift components, domestic manufacturing isn’t really a thing for certain components.
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The Tariffs won’t hold. It’s just an attention getting tactic meant to anger and fear.
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I find the epic pass a bit limiting when forcing you to book consecutive days. At least none of the new partners has the silly limitation to require (overpriced) lodging partners as for the Arlberg.
Hintertux just got more than a feet of snow in the last two days, btw – had a beautiful day of skiing there today.
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We drove by Beartooth Basin a couple days after the Beartooth Highway reopened on our way to the NW Yellowstone entrance from Red Lodge, MT. I had no idea it was there at the top of the pass. They already had a portable lift set up down in the basin and people were skiing and riding. Their “lodge” back in 2006 was a trailer at the top – with the ubiquitous Sugarloaf sticker on a window. Very cool place. Wish I could post pictures.
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