• Massanutten takes down its Borvig J-Bar.
• Breckenridge posts a Freedom SuperChair progress report along with a new trail map.
• The Atlantic Gondola carries its first passengers in Nova Scotia.
• Kicking Horse shows how it feeds a captive grizzly bear by throwing food from the Golden Eagle Express.
• Heavenly ends summer operations early due to smoke and fire danger.
• The Caldor Fire threatens both Sierra at Tahoe and Kirkwood.
• Alta Sierra narrowly escapes being burned by a different fire.
• Environmentalists use balloons to demonstrate their opposition to gondola cabins and towers in Little Cottonwood Canyon. The last chance to comment on the gondola proposal is September 3rd.
• All remaining resorts in Australia and New Zealand close due to Covid and operators are devastated.
• Highlander Lift Services & Construction is hiring team members to help build the first two lifts at Utah’s Wasatch Peaks Ranch.
• Michigan’s Alpine Valley is under new ownership, widely rumored to be Wisconsin Resorts Inc., though I have been unable to independently confirm that.
• Holiday Valley makes progress on its self-installation of a new Doppelmayr detachable.
• A new lawsuit alleges the State of Vermont knew about and failed to protect investors from the fraud at Burke Mountain.
• County planners recommend rejection of the Pandora’s expansion proposal on Aspen Mountain.
• Parks Canada again says no to a Banff-Norquay gondola.
• The Forest Service seeks public comments on Whitefish Mountain Resort’s Chair 4 replacement project.