- The Palm Springs Tramway reopens tomorrow after a week closure due to a faulty motor contactor.
- The public operator of Belleayre, Gore and Whiteface, lost a record $50 million last year.
- Wasatch Peaks adds an eighth lift to its fleet this summer.
- Montage Mountain, PA appears to leave the Indy Pass but new additions are coming soon.
- Mt. Norquay displays demo cabins from both manufacturers with gondola installation planned for 2026.
- Vail Resorts increases the discount Epic Pass holders can give friends to 50 percent.
- In an interview, Vail’s CEO says the company will refocus on North American investment.
- Austrian Fabian Dankl rides a bike on a haul rope between two lift towers (with permission).
- Unseated passengers aren’t just a winter problem.
- Snoqualmie raises $194,000 for charity from the sale of 97 Riblet doubles.
- Gore Mountain to sell chairs from Topridge in a race-to-the-parking lot format August 23rd.
- Riverbanks Zoo to open South Carolina’s only gondola this month.
- A lightning-caused wildfire burns much of Tamarack’s proposed expansion area but spares resort infrastructure so far.
- Purgatory runs into permitting delays with the Gelande lift project.
- Butternut releases a new trail map showing the Jane’s Quad.
- Sponsored job: Cable Propelled Transit Engineer at SCJ Alliance.
- I snapped a few photos of the Sunrise Gondola and parking garage projects at Park City last week.
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Cool to see more pictures of the Sunrise Gondola. Those terminals are beautiful!
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The 50% off for “Epic Friends” is good, but it does mean that the discount is off the fluctuating window price, not the previous fixed price benefit of Buddy Tickets. We’ll see how they play this in the years ahead. It didn’t say if SWAF tickets are going away (they weren’t a very good deal so I wonder how often they’ve been redeemed).
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The big savings is the credit toward a future Epic purchase. It’s an OK deal with the discount on the window rate. It’s basically free skiing if someone buys an Epic pass in 26/27.
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I really didn’t foresee Wasatch Peaks becoming as successful as it appears to be. I miss the quiet peaceful and less crowded/dense Utah that I grew up in for 10 years, On the other side of the mountain from wasatch peaks.. and a little to the south. (Farmington) The 1980s was a great time to be a kid growing up, and learning how to ski at Snowbasin and a number of other then quiet utah ski resorts.
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