- Telluride plans to reopen Lift 1 Monday with non-union workers.
- Here’s some detailed on the ground reporting from the Telluride strike.
- Le Massif, Quebec also shuts down completely due to a strike.
- Mountain High, California temporarily closes due to rain damage.
- Mt. Waterman’s Chair 1 sustains severe damage from the same storm.
- Marquette Mountain, Michigan’s Rocket chair will miss this season due to a gearbox issue.
- Boyne Mountain, Michigan rope evacuates Disciples 8.
- Trollhaugen, Wisconsin rope evacs Chair 4.
- Sasquatch Mountain, BC’s Sasquatch chair remains out of service.
- Black Mountain, New Hampshire loses its only two chairlifts over the holiday period; both are now back in action.
- Mont Farlagne, New Brunswick loses its only chairlift to a gearbox issue, considers buying a T-Bar for future redundancy.
- Burke Mountain’s 1965 J-Bar is back after missing a season.
- Norway Mountain, Michigan revives the Thor double after many years inoperable.
- Asessippi, Manitoba notes several carriers are unusable on the Porcupine triple but the lift will continue to run.
- Seven people are injured in Italy when an aerial tram fails to slow down properly when docking.
- A child dies after becoming entangled in a conveyor lift in Japan.
- A woman is uninjured after dangling upside down from the doors of a gondola cabin at Park City (video).
- Mount Snow shutters Ego Alley and Seasons for different reasons.
- The latest court filing over a delayed lift project at Bluewood, Washington alleges Steelhead Systems’ “experience in the sale and delivery of used chairlifts” has “been marred by disappointing results, delays and unexplained cost overruns.”
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News Roundup: Upper Peninsula
- Big Powderhorn Mountain Resort is for sale with an asking price of $2.4 million.
- Marquette Mountain finds a new owner.
- Arizona Snowbowl plans to reopen Agassiz in early March.
- A girl was lucky to fall from Park City’s Town lift where it crosses Park Avenue and has catch netting.
- Crystal Mountain, BC won’t reopen this winter but may add a new lift this summer in addition to reactivating a T-Bar for next year.
- Doppelmayr will build Saddleback a new detachable quad, which will have a ride time under five minutes and run in the same alignment as Rangeley.
- A real estate brokerage is hired to market the Hermitage properties in advance of next month’s auction.
- Three Whistler Blackcomb leaders respond to the Make Whistler Great Again petition with a video about what it takes to run such a massive ski area.
- French lift staff go on strike.
- Nonprofit Ski Cooper has become quite profitable in recent years, allowing it to make significant upgrades.
- Despite late deliveries and winter work, Skeetawk lift construction chugs along.
- Reopening day at the Sea to Sky Gondola sets a new visitation record.
- Nordic Valley wants to build its new lift as soon as this summer.
- With two prominent new gondola systems recently opened at private venues in Florida, Miami area leaders look to gondola transit.
- Last week’s death was not the first time someone fell through chair with a flipped up seat at Vail and Beaver Creek. It also happened on the very same lift in 2009.
- Removal of a second lift begins at Timberline in preparation for this summer’s new construction.
- In a letter to passholders, Nub’s Nob announces the retirement of Blue effective at the end of this season.
- The Berry Family tells the inside story of why it took so long to sell Saddleback and reveals another ski area offered $3 million for the lifts.
News Roundup: Stalking Horse
- A power outage leaves guests stuck on the Skyeship Gondola at Killington for more than an hour.
- A broken bolt leads to a similar situation at Mt. St. Louis Moonstone.
- Teton Pass, Montana reopens after a few years shuttered.
- A second American Dream location with an indoor ski slope may break ground in 2021 near Miami.
- Travis Seeholzer, owner of Beaver Mountain, talks about running one of Utah’s oldest resorts.
- Former members look to save Hermitage Club assets from a stalking horse reportedly prepared to bid $3.6 million for the Barnstormer six pack.
- Vail’s new lift opens but not to the public. It will be available to all on select Tuesdays at noon.
- Marquette Mountain evacuates a lift during the busy holiday week.
- A man falls from Steamboat’s Sunshine Express due to a medical issue.
- Windham’s former Wonderama triple turns up in the Ski Butternut parking lot.
- Staff from the downed Sea to Sky Gondola will present what they learned about crisis management on January 30th.
- Juneau weighs partnering with the cruise industry to fund a proposed adventure park and gondola at Eaglecrest.
- The new Steamboat Gondola delivers fast ride times and short lift lines during its first Christmas break.
- The Forest Service expects to weigh in on the Sunlight East Ridge project in May.
- Mt. Abram becomes Indy Pass resort number 47.
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