• The first lift-served bike park in Texas opens January 18th with a fixed-grip quad called the Texas Eagle.
• What was once the longest triple chair on the continent is officially off the Sunrise Park trail map.
• Pajarito does a rope evac of the Aspen lift on opening day.
• Simultaneously, Whitefish evacuates East Rim, which goes over quite the cliff.
• Breckenridge brings out the ropes for the Quicksilver Super6 the same day.
• Yet another lift is rope evacuated at Loch Lomond, Ontario.
• 39 lawsuits have been filed against The Hermitage Club and its founder to date.
• Attitash provides daily updates on Summit, which has been down a bunch lately.
• Hickory, NY won’t reopen this winter.
• Killington still plans to open the new South Ridge quad sometime this winter.
• Map master James Niehues gives up on retirement and is painting a new trail map for Mt. Bachelor.
• The planned race training T-Bar at Sunday River is a go for this summer.
• A teenager dies from a chairlift fall at Blue Mountain, PA.
• A lucky nine year old keeps on skiing after falling 40 feet from Solitude’s Moonbeam Express.
• A teen girl dies after jumping from a quad chair in Quebec.
• Greater Vancouver’s transit agency still wants to build a gondola up Burnaby Mountain but needs funding for it.