• Beaver Creek renames the Buckaroo Express gondola Haymeadow Express, the name of the double chair which ran in the same alignment from 1980 to 2007.
• Whether the Hermitage Club closes a $30 million loan to catch up on lift maintenance and operate this winter is still an open question.
• Arapahoe Basin and Leitner-Poma fly steel for the Beavers project.
• As of yesterday, Vail Resorts officially operates Okemo, Mt. Sunapee and Crested Butte.
• Vail reports fiscal 2018 resort EBITDA was $616.6 million, an increase of 3.9 percent over the prior year.  2018-19 season pass sales are up 25 percent in units and 15 percent in dollars as of Sunday.
• West Mountain adds a million dollar chairlift and looks to build another.
• A New York-based developer receives one of many approvals for Mayflower Village at Deer Valley, which could eventually mean a slate of new lifts.

• Doppelmayr is named in connection with an urban gondola eyed for Long Beach, California.
• Watch a remarkable 3S gondola launch live from Zermatt at 9:15 Eastern tomorrow morning, 6:15 Pacific.
• The CFO and COO of Peak Resorts open up about their decision to buy Snow Time and note the three new mountains don’t immediately need much capital investment.
• The longtime owners of Great Divide, Montana plan to sell to another couple next year.
• Legendary ski resort builder Les Otten remains committed to The Balsams but laments, “time is killing this project.”
• Mountain Capital Partners releases more details on the Spider Mountain Bike Park project.
• The damaged Zugspitze cabin is successfully lowered to the valley for disassembly.  The cable car’s operator says damage exceeds $1.2 million and the lift could reopen by year end.
• Boreal names its new quad California Cruiser.
• The latest Leitner-Poma six-pack at Hunter Mountain, seen below, will be called Northern Express.