• An avalanche crushes a six pack terminal in France.
• Doppelmayr’s latest customer magazine focuses on North America overtaking Europe as the company’s largest market and achieving more than 50 percent market share in our highly competitive region.
• Two bears climb a very tall tower on Steamboat’s new Wild Blue Gondola.
• A prototype MND Orizon detachable is under construction at the factory and expected to be operational in early summer for testing. The first customer installation may be in Uzbekistan.
• Sun Peaks resumes construction on the West Bowl Express after a winter break.
• Homewood seek approval for its Madden Gondola in a modified alignment.
• Huff Hills, North Dakota to close following a lease dispute with the mountain’s landowner.
• Tenney Mountain eyes replacing Hornet with a detachable lift.
• Alterra’s CEO discuses lift construction costs and more in a wide ranging interview.
• Plans show four major lifts at the planned Stagecoach Mountain Ranch near Steamboat.
• Legoland New York’s new gondola appears mostly complete with the first Diamond EVO cabins in North America.
• Quebec Ski Resorts Company says if it acquired the lease to Mont-Sainte-Anne, it would install a 10 passenger Doppelmayr gondola in 2025 and two detachable chairlifts in 2026. Resorts of the Canadian Rockies insists the mountain is not for sale.
• The Park City planning Commission delays a decision again on Deer Valley’s proposed Lift 7, citing wildlife concerns.
• Park City’s upcoming Sunrise Gondola will be constructed by Leitner-Poma with Vail Resorts’ first direct drive.
• An unnamed New Hampshire resort is looking for CTEC quad chairs for an upcoming relocation.