- Bretton Woods’ upcoming gondola gets a great name: Presidential Bahn.
- Copper updates the public on its big new American Eagle and American Flyer lifts.
- For the third time in six years, Soldier Mountain, Idaho hits the market. “The current owners have experienced the typical start up challenges that come with operating a ski area that has been under capitalized, under managed and under marketed for many years,” writes Mike Krongel of Mirus Resort Advisors.
- The BC Supreme Court orders the province to reconsider its 2015 decision to pull Jumbo Glacier Resort’s construction permit over lack of progress.
- Mont Cascades scores a $1.2 million grant from the Government of Quebec to help build the resort’s longest chairlift yet.
- The criminal case of a former employee who may or may not have been stuck on a Gore Mountain chairlift overnight last winter heads to trial.
- Snow King’s possible gondola gains two new alignment options. GM Ryan Stanley tells the Jackson Hole community “After struggling for so many years to keep the lifts spinning, it is sad to see the negativity associated with proposed improvements to the mountain.”
- The 380 acre Cold Springs Canyon expansion and detachable quad are officially a go for next summer at Sun Valley.
- Doppelmayr nears commissioning of a very cool gondola with spherical cabins, loopy towers and whimsical stations in Moscow.
- Stratton says goodbye to the SMS Poma, leaving just seven detachable surface lifts in the country by my count.
- 36 days before opening, go inside the eye-catching Matterhorn 3S gondola by Leitner Ropeways.
- Thanks to Everett and Will for these shots of Big Sky’s trailblazing Ramcharger 8 project.
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