• After a year with no revenue, one Canadian resort resorts to GoFundMe to stay afloat.
• SE Group will study the viability of a proposed hiking/biking chairlift near Park City.
• 97 percent of Bryce Resort homeowners vote to fund $2.5 million replacement of Chair 2.
• Cape Smokey receives a CA$2.5 million construction loan from the Government of Canada, although travel restrictions may delay completion of a new gondola.
• Doppelmayr’s 2021 Yearbook is out along with a new Wir magazine.
• Poma’s latest Reference Book also drops.
• Trails and the new lift line have been cleared on Sunday River’s Merrill Hill.
• Skytrac is still recruiting construction employees in Crested Butte, Steamboat, Whiteface and Whitefish.
• The first-of-its-kind Leitner 2S in Germany is complete, though Covid prevents public operation and a noise issue hinders full speed operation for now.
• Doppelmayr and Sun Group mark 14 years of building record breaking ropeways in Vietnam.
• Great Bear to raffle off retired Borvig quad chairs.
• The story of how MND came to be through 15 acquisitions and a focus on emerging markets.
• MND reports half year results with revenue declining 5 percent but snowmaking and ropeway revenue increasing by 6 percent.
• Less than four years ago, new terminal equipment was shoehorned into the Steamboat Gondola building. Now it’s being used for fire training in advance of demolition.
• Big Sky launches a Swift Current 6 update site.
• Vidanta SkyDream claims to be the world’s first gondola transportation at a beach resort.
• The Epcot Disney Skyliner line will close for a six day maintenance window in January.
• For the second time in two months, a guest is injured falling from equipment at Camelback.
• Berkshire East and Catamount Jon Schaefer owner talks expansion, says he came close to buying the Hermitage Club’s six pack and tells the story of re-pouring foundations for Bousquet’s new triple chair in January.
• Montana’s shuttered Marshall Mountain sells to a new owner.
• The proposed Los Angeles urban 3S releases its preferred alignment and will host two public meetings in June.
• In an interview, Poma Chairman Jean Souchal laments losing 30 percent of business from Covid but he remains optimistic, especially about urban transport by rope.
• Copper’s proposed Lumberjack replacement would be a detachable quad following a modified alignment.
• One of the Jay Peak fraudsters faces three years in prison.
• Icy Strait Point, home to two new gondolas stalled by the pandemic, will open this summer after all.