• A dozen years after closing, North Carolina’s Hawksnest lists two Hall doubles for sale.
• As it attempts to lower its tax bill, Jay Peak reveals it received several non-binding offers ranging from $38 million to $70 million.
• Burke Mountain argues it’s worth only $11.2 million, citing seven figure losses each of the last three years.
• Wachusett will sell four different sessions this winter rather than day and night tickets.
• Garibaldi at Squamish now plans to break ground in 2023 and spin lifts circa 2027.
• For the second time in a year, the tram in Juneau, Alaska has a new name: Goldbelt Tram.
• An American visitor caught riding the Banff Gondola faces a CA$750,000 fine.
• Not good: a paraglider gets tangled up in a chair.
• Sugarloaf reiterates its commitment to West Mountain, which will include a lengthy detachable lift.
• Holimont plans to eventually move Chipmunk, replace Sunset and build a new lift on WestMont Ridge.
• Maine’s closed Eaton Mountain becomes a non-profit and will aggressively seek funding for a new chairlift.
• Park City won’t be seeing gondola transit any time soon.
• Nitehawk’s only chairlift will remain out of service for the entire 2020-21 season following last spring’s landslide.
• Elk Mountain has not been sold.
• North America’s 2019-20 ski season will come to an end August 30th.
• Sunday River plans to build the Merrill Hill lift in 2022.
• Quebec-based Samson Industries, which built more than 100 ski lifts, calls it quits after 160 years.
• What was supposed to be New Zealand’s first 10 passenger Doppelmayr gondola will sit in shipping containers until tourism recovers.
• Big Sky and Doppelmayr get to work on Swift Current 6 (shown below.)