- Grouse Mountain installs new CWA Kronos cabins on the Red Skyride.
- Despite a pending legal challenge, Park City announces 2027 construction of the long-delayed Silverlode eight place and Eagle six pack.
- Park City also plans a systems modernization on Crescent Express as part of Vail’s approximately $232 million 2027 capital plan.
- Vail reports fiscal year 2026 resort EBITDA down 11.7% and season pass sales for 26/27 down 12 percent in units and 6 percent in dollars.
- Oasis Management increases its ownership stake in Vail Resorts to 9 percent.
- After 15 months and $2.5 million, the Eldora sale requires restructuring and may never close without additional funding.
- Quebec’s CMSQ signs two more mountains to its new multi-mountain pass, La Passe Monts Québec.
- Winter Park replaces the pay-to-play Reserve Pass with “Rope Drop Club,” a free program that rewards passholders who ski early season with line cutting days later in the season.
- The Winter Park community could fund a $120 million gondola from town to the ski area via local taxes.
- International visits to the United States are on track to decline by nearly two million this year.
- Killington explains why maintaining a network of fixed-grip lifts remains important in the East.
- The Forest Service hears objections to the proposed Grand Targhee expansion and eyes resolution.
- Doppelmayr submits the apparent low bid to replace the chairlift at Hogadon, Wyoming.
- Cochran’s, Vermont might be up to something.
- From the classifieds: 1989 Doppelmayr quad for sale.
- Holiday Mountain names its new Partek triple Quickway, renames its Poma triple Neversink.
Killington’s “fixed-grip strategy” has me wondering about Mount Bachelor’s new approach for northwest express … get the carriers off the line, ideally into enclosed storage, and run the haul rope through the storm. Couldn’t that make their detachables more resilient? And do they try anything like that with K1 / Skyeship / Snowdon 6?
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