- US ski resorts report their second best season ever with 61.5 million visits.
- Colorado releases a detailed report on Winter Park’s gondola tower evener beam failure last December. Leitner-Poma will retrofit or replace similar beams on existing lifts and modify the beam’s design for future installations.
- The Kicking Horse gondola hanger failure remains under investigation but the resort will replace all hangers and not operate the gondola until mid-summer at the earliest.
- Homewood to install its D-Line gondola in 2026 after years of delays.
- McCauley Mountain to sell Hall chairs from the former Big double.
- The Covid-delayed Timber expansion at Tremblant is back on the table.
- The White Mountain National Forest seeks comments on Waterville Valley’s proposed village-to-mountain gondola.
- Eaglecrest, Alaska continues to lose money with its planned gondola still in the parking lot.
- Salt Lake Community College launches a training program for lift maintenance professionals.
- Wildcat’s Snowcat triple, which missed all of last season, to get a new haul rope, drive, controls, comm line and operator houses.
- A Park City billionaire acquires the PCMR Town Lift plaza, envisions a future gondola.
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- HTI, the parent company of Agudio, Bartholet, Leitner, Poma, LPOA and Skytrac, reports stable revenue of €1.4 billion and record R&D investment of €41 million.
- Leitner teases “the exclusive launch of a groundbreaking new standard for monocable uni-directional ropeways” at Interalpin.
- Leitner also nears completion of a material transport gondola that includes a 1,600 foot underground tunnel.
- The next phase of the Bartholet RopeTaxi on demand gondola network is delayed to December.
- President Trump tempers announced tariffs on most countries to 10% for 90 days.
- Calls continue for the Government of Quebec to terminate its lease with Resorts of the Canadian Rockies for Mont-Sainte-Anne.
- Freakonomics tackles the economics of ski areas with help from Loveland and Mt. Ashland.
- Mt. Hood Meadows to retire the Blue double without replacement, raffle the chairs.
- Alpental plans an all weekend celebration for the retirement of iconic Chair 2.
- Doppelmayr breaks ground on its new Salt Lake City building.
- French authorities propose nearly €2 million in fines against MND and its investors for alleged disclosure and insider trading violations.
- You can buy an Overbrook chair from Ski Butternut
- McCauley is also selling chairs.
- CBS drama Fire Country to feature a ficticious ski lift disaster tonight.
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- Bromont, Quebec joins the Mountain Collective, Arapahoe Basin will remain for 24-25.
- Steamboat’s Pony Express goes down, temporarily cutting off lift access to the new Mahogany Ridge Express as well.
- The main beginner chair goes down at Big Powderhorn.
- Arizona Snowbowl nears an agreement with tribes and land managers to resume development of the resort.
- New owners of Alyeska float a base area pulse gondola.
- Staff at Rabbit Hill, Alberta successfully catch a falling chairlift rider.
- Middlebury Snowbowl announces the Bailey Falls triple won’t operate this season due to “unprecedented challenges.”
- Powder Mountain will pause lift-served mountain biking this summer while it constructs four new chairlifts.
- Alta tests new, cushier chairs on Supreme to possibly alleviate the bumpiness of the bend.
- A day in the life of Beaver Creek Lift Maintenance.
- The beautiful new 3S between Switzerland and Italy proves unpopular at $250 per ride.
- A father who jumped from a Park City chair after his daughter fell from a lift sues Vail Resorts over their injuries.
- A number of British Columbia ski areas report a disastrous season so far.
- McCauley Mountain is set to acquire Gore Mountain’s outgoing Hudson triple.
- The Forest Service indicates it will approve Monarch Mountain’s proposed expansion into No Name Basin.
- Perfect North will hold a chair auction.
- The owner of the Chicago Cubs to acquire White Pine, Wyoming.
- Deer Valley is working with both major lift manufacturers on potential Expanded Excellence lifts.
- Big Sky plans to name the new Moonlight lift Madison 8, seeks wildlife photography for D-Line chair backs.
- Sunday River evacuates more than 200 riders from the Aurora Quad following a deropement yesterday.
- A 3S gondola proposal in Los Angeles notches another approval.
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