• Mt. Rose wants to replace Lakeview and build a two stage detachable Atoma lift instead of two separate alignments shown here.
• Two people survive after their small plane crashes into and is caught by chairlift cables in Italy.
• The Forest Service seeks public comment on issuing a special use permit to Mountain Capital Partners to operate Elk Ridge, Arizona, which closed in 2017.
• The owners of 100 year old Pocono Manor want to build a 1.5 mile chairlift to the upcoming Pocono Springs lifestyle and entertainment complex.
• The New York Times considers whether a planned four station gondola is appropriate in historically holy Jerusalem.
• All three Disney Skyliner lines remain closed following Saturday’s mishap at the Riviera station.
• The replacement for Big Burn at Snowmass may be a six place bubble model.
• Hermitage Club founder Jim Barnes is ordered to pay a member more than $5.4 million for making misrepresentations.
• Crystal Mountain adds 12 gondola cabins with the mountain’s new logo, bringing the Mt. Rainier Gondola to its maximum capacity of 900 passengers per hour.
• Magic Mountain’s new quad may not spin by Christmas but hopefully MLK weekend.
• Environmental review of the New York Capital Gondola project should commence next week.
• Lake Louise’s VonRoll gondola towers finally fly away after 60 years.
• The VonRoll in Oklahoma thrills riders for a 54th year.
• Fatzer fast tracks a new haul rope for the Sea to Sky Gondola.
• The recently opened 3S in Norway successfully toes the line between an urban gondola and ski/tourism lift.
• Vail seeks to buy the Hermitage Club’s snowmaking guns.
• A super cool LST T-Bar on the roof of a waste-to-energy plant opens for skiers in Copenhagen.
• Poma begins constructing a five section urban gondola on the remote Indian Ocean island of Réunion.
• Grouse Mountain acknowledges the Blue Skyride‘s days are numbered and will study replacing it over the coming year.
• Frost Fire, which was unable to spin its brand new Skytrac quad last winter, says it will open this winter.