- Vail Resorts reports pass sales down 1 percent in units and up 2 percent in dollars. Full season skier visits fell 3 percent (7 percent in March and April), quarterly net income rose 8.5 percent, lift revenue rose 3.3 percent, ski school revenue fell 0.6 percent, dining revenue rose 1.4 percent, retail revenue fell 10.1 percent and rental revenue fell 5.5 percent.
- Colorado as a whole reports its third best season ever with 13.8 million visits.
- Vermont also posts strong results with skier visits 6.2 percent over the 10 year average.
- Lake Louise looks to open the Richardson’s Ridge expansion sometime during the 2025-26 season.
- Monarch releases the map for the No Name Basin expansion with a lift named Tomichi. The frontside of the mountain also gets a new map.
- Angel Fire shows where two new lifts will go.
- Steel and aluminum tariffs increase to 50 percent as of June 4th.
- An Austrian resort fits tables to chairlift restraint bars for happy hour chairlift rides with food and drinks.
- A new master plan for Crescent Hill, Iowa includes replacing both chairlifts.
- The Town of Mountain Village, Colorado seeks feedback for replacement gondola station designs.
- A 2024 French tram crash is blamed on human error with several safeties bypassed.
- Sunlight to offer retired chairs to the public through a raffle, online auction and live auction.
- Hawaii’s first gondola proposal faces opposition.
- Dagmar, Ontario teases major mountain investment.
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News Roundup: High Impact
- Mission Ridge’s replacement of the Liberator Express with a bubble chair from Europe is pushed back to 2020.
- Dagmar in Ontario plans to replace its Rendezvous triple with a quad as soon as next summer.
- The scheduled foreclosure auction of Granite Gorge is cancelled.
- Ghost Town in the Sky, a shuttered chairlift-accessed amusement park in North Carolina, goes back up for sale.
- The Indy Pass now includes more North American resorts than both the Ikon and Epic passes.
- Boyne Resorts announces a $60 million private debt offering with proceeds to be used for organic growth including “high-impact initiatives” over the next two to three years.
- Alpine Media raises $2 million more to install digital screens on more chairlifts.
- Mont Orignal plans a second lift as backup for the world’s first detachable six pack.
- A Doppelmayr gondola which was delivered to Parral, Mexico in 2016 but never installed may finally get put together.
- Despite rumors to the contrary, Disney says there is no Skyliner opening date yet.
- The State of California concludes 25-40 mph winds likely caused a grip and communications line to become entangled on the Bayside Skyride at SeaWorld in February.
- The United States Department of Justice argues the Hermitage Club’s reorganization plan is being illegally marketed to creditors and members.
- Millennium Partners may have abandoned its Boston Seaport Gondola idea.
- A chairlift at the Ohio State Fair will sport all new carriers this year due to concerns about the condition of the originals.
- Leitner’s fourth 3S system goes into operation in Voss, Norway.
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