• In Massachusetts, Bousquet sells to a private investment firm which will be advised by Jon and Jim Schaefer.
• Magic Mountain resumes work on the Black Line Quad project.
• Bravo to many more ski areas offering up ski lifts for graduation ceremonies: Big Bear, Canyon, Copper Mountain, Deer Valley, Giants Ridge, Jackson Hole, Mountain High, Snow Valley and Treetops.
• Nub’s Nob says goodbye to the Blue Chair.
• There will be no summer skiing on Blackcomb Glacier this year.
• A Canadian government decision means no Alaska cruises will sail in 2020 and it will likely be 2021 until Icy Strait Point’s dual gondola system debuts.
• The creator of the Indy Pass argues shared revenue models are the future of ski passes.
• Poma’s 2019 Reference Book is here.
• Doppelmayr begins building Saddleback’s $7 million high speed quad.
• The Aspen Mountain Telemix may happen in 2022.
• Mountain Collective adds a fifth new resort for 2020/21: Sun Peaks, British Columbia.
• Set to become the world’s longest alpine 3S, Jungfrau’s Eiger Express will open early.
• Launching tomorrow: another spectacular 3S which travels 705 feet above the sea in Vietnam.  Three more sections will eventually form a 12.1 mile gondola chain.
• Demaclenko creates a fully automated fogging/disinfection solution for moving gondola cabins.
• Construction gets underway on the first bubble chairlift in the Pacific Northwest, which will load and unload inside buildings.
• In Minnesota, both Welch Village and Spirit Mountain pull the plug on summer operations.
• Vail Resorts lost $40 million less than anticipated in March and April and reported a net income of $152.5 million for the quarter ended April 30th.
• Purgatory proposes building a detachable quad chair and four low intermediate trails in an area known as Ice Creek.
• On Mt. Hood, Summit Ski Area seeks a boundary extension to the Timberline border, a first step towards a possible lift link.
• Leitner-Poma President Daren Cole pens a letter addressing challenges facing the ski industry in the age of coronavirus.
• Alterra extends the Ikon Pass deferral option to April 2021 and introduces a credit policy in the event of resort closures next season.
• A new English edition of International Ropeway Review profiles Treeline Cirque at Alpine Meadows and the Express du Village at Bromont.
• Utah’s Department of Transportation narrows its Little Cottonwood Canyon mobility study to gondolas and buses.
• The Snowbird tram will carry only 25 passengers when it reopens June 13th.
• The City of Idaho Springs, Colorado conditionally approves the Mighty Argo Cable Car, a 1.2 mile gondola on the site of a historic mine.