• An affiliate of Silver Mountain buys 49 Degrees North.
• A citizen group wants the Colorado Passenger Tramway Safety Board to regulate lift operations more broadly than the current mechanical focus.
• Bogus Basin will auction a bunch of Riblet triple chairs beginning Sunday.
• The Disney Skyliner is not a normal gondola and will be evacuated as such in an emergency.
• Steamboat already has a gondola construction update.
• So does Bretton Woods.
• A guy accused of ducking ropes around a chairlift terminal at Killington is charged with disorderly conduct.
• Whistler Blackcomb will open some of the same lifts for both skiers and mountain bikers for the first time this spring.
• The Forest Service gives its blessing to the Eldora Jolly Jug expansion and high speed lift.
• Doppelmayr USA is on Facebook.
• Vail Resorts reports a fantastic season with skier visits, lift ticket revenue, retail, ski school and dining all up between 6.2 and 9.3 percent through April 21st.
• The Los Angeles Dodger Stadium 3S is headed to environmental review.
• Poma’s 3S project in China is going to have an insane 5,775 people per hour capacity.
• CWA teases its soon-to-debut 3S cabin.