- New York’s state-owned ski areas report record visitation – a nine percent increase from last season.
- Meadowlark, Wyoming sells to a Florida hedge fund.
- Hermon Mountain, Maine sells to new local owners.
- Hawaii’s legislature passes a complete ban on aerial lifts under any private entity anywhere in the state.
- An interesting but imperfect analysis of European vs. North American lift construction economics. (video version)
- Powder Mountain removes Doodle from this summer’s lift program.
- A GoFundMe is launched for the mechanic who survived a deadly work chair detachment at Mt. Hood Skibowl.
- Little Switzerland auctions Riblet doubles from historic Lift 1/2.
- An Oregon county solicits proposals for a new operator of closed Spout Springs.
- Outgoing detachable quads from the Yellowstone Club may head to Red Lodge and Lost Trail.
- The haul rope is already on Angel Fire’s upcoming Angel Express.
- Anakeesta to open the Crystal Express a week from today – the first gondola in the world with all glass cabins.
- The cost of Steamboat’s proposed transit center and base detachable gondola balloons to $75 million.
- An update on Boone’s Ridge in Kentucky, set to include an MND gondola in phase two.
- Bogus Basin plans to replace and realign Showcase within the next couple years.
- The Park City Planning Commission and public express positivity on Eagle and Silverlode replacements with a final vote possible on May 27th.
- Juneau elected officials to vote Monday whether to end the city’s used gondola nightmare.
- Leitner-Poma strengthens its presence in Western Canada.
- Nordic Valley says goodbye to Crocket.
- Lively, Ontario to replace its Samson T-Bar with a Doppelmayr platter from a nearby lost ski area.
- The Utah Department of Transportation acquires a parcel for the possible Little Cottonwood Gondola base station.
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The Snowstash article paints it like all the resorts in North America are owned by Vail! I’m no Vail-lover, but they need to recognize that there are other players (Alterra, Powdr and a whole whack of independents) in play. Sure capex lags, but allot of that also plays into government regulations and funding – look at Quebec for a model of the public/private partnerships.
They lost me with: The third is the hardest: the cultural and geographic foundation doesn’t exist. Whistler functions as a summer destination because Whistler Village predated the ski resort, because it sits 90 minutes from Vancouver along a coastal mountain corridor already used by hikers and cyclists, and because it has three decades of reputation-building behind it.
Ummm no. Whistler Mountain came first – the Village was a planned response under the BC Government’s new (at the time) Resort Municipality designation, specifically designed to service the ski area.
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