• Keep an eye out for a brand new urban gondola adjacent to the stadium during coverage of the final World Cup soccer match in Moscow.
• The Jay Peak receiver goes after the owner of six Quebec ski resorts for allegedly aiding and abetting fraud that followed the sale of its Vermont ski resort to a Florida businessman.
• Boston will spend $400,000 to study a gondola and other possible transportation options for the city’s Seaport district.
• Utah skier visits fell 9.6 percent compared with last year but were even with the state’s ten year average.
• Vermont visits rose 1.2 percent year over year to 3.97 million.
• New Hampshire Attorney General Gordon MacDonald says the state will have the final say in Vail Resorts’ announced takeover of Mt. Sunapee’s lease from Triple Peaks.
• The Oakland Zoo will more than double in size on July 12th thanks to an innovative gondola.
• SilverStar’s new gondola, recently dubbed the Schumann Summit Express, launches July 14th.
• The White River National Forest approves Vail’s Game Creek six place project. I’m still waiting to hear back from Vail Resorts about a construction timeline and manufacturer.
• A Branson, MO company is still talking about building a $260 million gondola system there.
• The second Doppelmayr Wir magazine of 2018 highlights the company’s quickest ever gondola construction project in the United States, Big Sky’s upcoming D-Line eight seater and a 2,800 pph gondola that requires no operators at all.
• Purgatory furloughs employees, reduces hours and eliminates some positions entirely as it remains closed due to the 416 Fire.
• Sebastian Monsour, the Australian developer who flew to Maine to announce his purchase of Saddleback, is arrested in Brisbane, accused of misusing $3.4 million in investor funds.
• Parts are everywhere at Wolf Creek for the upcoming Meadow detachable quad.