- Sugarloaf no longer plans to install the former Six Shooter from Big Sky, plans a new Timberline detachable quad instead. The Loaf also plans to replace Skidder with two conveyors and remove Sawduster.
- Killington to close the K-1 Gondola much of next summer for a major systems modernization. Replacements for Snowshed and Ramshead to follow as part of a $200 million capital plan.
- Pico to replace Outpost with a low capacity Doppelmayr quad next summer.
- Holiday Mountain, New York’s revitalization tops $15 million.
- Doppelmayr wins a $255 million tender for a six station, 4.1 mile urban gondola in Panama.
- Sir Sam’s, Ontario names its new quad Fireball Express.
- Snowland, Utah’s new T-Bar to be named Ridgeline Express.
- Doppelmayr breaks ground on a new €200 million expansion in Wolfurt.
- A gondola is proposed for the US side of Niagara Falls.
- Sandia Peak, New Mexico eyes a new beginner lift.
- Some in Vail call for Vail Resorts to return to local roots.
- Whistler’s new Showcase lift includes an epic cantilevered tower to avoid glacial ice.
- BC’s Hell’s Gate Airtram, closed since August due to a wildfire, vows to reopen in May 2027.
- Toggenburg Mountain, New York to reopen this winter under new ownership as part of an antitrust settlement.
- Purgatory eyes completing the Ice Creek expansion in 2027 and replacing Twilight with a gondola in 2028.
- Canada’s capital region to study an urban gondola linking Ottawa and Gatineau.
What happens to the old Six Shooter then?
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she’ll be stored until a new home is found? I don’t think they’ll scrap her.
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