• After several high-profile incidents, a good reminder from the NSAA that 86 percent of falls from chairlifts can be attributed to rider error.
• Lots of questions surround last week’s skier-pushes-snowboarder-off-lift story from Aspen Highlands.  Police say even without an arrest made, the public is not in any danger.
• Bravo to Bristol Mountain for actually pressing charges against a freeloading teen for theft of services.
• Only at a tiny mountain in Maine would volunteer ski patrollers derail a double chair they are also responsible for inspecting.
• An Austrian man is in a coma after the harness he was wearing around his neck became entangled with a platter lift carrier.  At least one lift operator may not have been at his or her assigned post.
• Mt. Rose Ski Tahoe is for sale.
• Fun Spot America near Orlando looks to add a gondola ride (thanks Jay T. for the tip.)
• Dignitaries break ground at Laurel Mountain in preparation for a November re-opening.
• A mix of public and private groups including Georgetown University are about to spend $250k to study a gondola linking Rosslyn, Virginia with Georgetown (one of Washington, D.C.’s highest-profile neighborhoods without a metro station.)
• The Balsams Wilderness won’t re-open in 2016 after all.  A revised timeline has three new and two existing lifts spinning in late 2017.
• This is our 200th post!