- 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: Pass Edition
- Ikon Pass adds Ischgl, Austria; loses Windham Mountain Club, New York and makes Arapahoe Basin unlimited with no blackouts. Full Ikon also adds two bonus days at Buck Hill, Minnesota; Cranmore, New Hampshire; Jiminy Peak, Massachusetts and Wild Mountain, Minnesota.
- Arapahoe Basin leaves the Mountain Collective Pass.
- Vail makes minimal changes to Epic Pass for next year.
- Indy Pass adds Burke Mountain, Vermont and Tenney Mountain, New Hampshire.
- The family behind Wisconsin Resorts Inc. want to buy Burke Mountain but the resort’s receiver says he has a better buyer.
- Wisconsin Resorts-owned Searchmont, Ontario teases multiple future terrain expansions on a new trail map.
- The group behind Perfect North Slopes, Indiana will operate Swiss Valley, Michigan
- A rope evacuation at Norway Mountain, Michigan.
- Fresh off building four new lifts, Powder Mountain has two more in the pipeline.
- Ski Cooper, Colorado slashes midweek tickets to $45, revenue surges.
- Also at Cooper, a skier is airlifted to the hospital after falling from a lift.
- Vail settles a lawsuit with a woman who fell from a lift at Stevens Pass.
- Park City gets Pioneer going for the first time this season.
- Woods Valley, New York to replaces its T-Bar with a CTEC quad ending higher on the mountain.
- 7th Heaven at Blackcomb suffers from delayed openings, closures and reduced speeds due to an electrical issue.
- Snowbird’s Mineral Basin Express repair timeline is extended due to storms.
- Whaleback Mountain’s only chairlift is closed all week due to mechanical.
- Sandia Peak works to revive mothballed Chair 2.
- A 2005 Doppelmayr Funifor suffers a serious incident in Italy involving a severed haul rope and cabin colliding into the bottom terminal. The lift was outside operating hours and one operator suffered minor injuries.
News Roundup: Vote
- Alta seeks Forest Service approval to realign Supreme.
- Brighton looks to replace the Milly Express and shorten Explorer.
- Indy Pass adds a slew of mountains including Loveland, Colorado; Bear Creek, Pennsylvania; Bear Valley, California; Bousquet, Massachusetts; Bruce Mound and Christie Mountain, Wisconsin; Camp Fortune, Massif du Sud and Mont Rigaud, Quebec; Cazenovia and Hunt Hollow, New York; Lost Valley, Maine; and Mt. Holiday and Norway Mountain, Michigan.
- Norway Mountain is on track to reopen this season after many years.
- After the only bid to replace the Cannon Mountain tramway came in millions more than expected, the State of New Hampshire investigates whether it can reuse existing towers.
- Pleasant Mountain to auction retired chairs next week.
- One non-essential lift was damaged by the wildfire at Mountain High.
- Canada’s Competition Bureau to probe whether the Arizona company behind the Jasper SkyTram and Banff Gondola unfairly competes with ski area sightseeing gondolas.
- Voters in Casper, Wyoming will be asked whether to fund a new chairlift at Hogadon.
- A real estate developer and Doppelmayr break ground on a new access lift at Tremblant.
- Local co-op organizers estimate Mt. Bachelor will sell for $180-200 million.
- Sponsored jobs: Lift Electrical Technicial Level 3 at Copper Mountain and Ski Lift Service Millwright at Doppelmayr Canada.
News Roundup: Stagecoach Resurrection
- Yellowstone Club and Homewood developer Discovery Land Company plans to revive the former Stagecoach ski area near Steamboat as a private ski and golf resort. A local realtor says Stagecoach Mountain Ranch has a Doppelmayr gondola on order.
- Loon Mountain rekindles plans to build a pulse gondola from RiverWalk Resort in Lincoln to the base of South Peak in 2025.
- MND’s upcoming product launch appears to be lift related.
- Hesperus, Colorado will remain closed next season.
- Nordic Valley will refurbish, not replace Apollo.
- Red River retires the outgoing Copper Chair early due to a mechanical issue.
- A paraglider in Austria dies after flying into a moving gondola. Two passengers in the gondola cabin were slightly injured.
- Mad River Glen details plans for Skytrac to add a mid-station to Sunnyside this summer.
- Mt. Bachelor installs a new electric motor on Northwest Express, allowing it to run full speed for the first time since January.
- A small forest fire briefly closes Timberline’s Jeff Flood Express.
- Parks Canada says no again to a Banff-Mt. Norquay gondola.
- White Hills, Newfoundland rope evacuates the Powder Line Express due to a mechanical issue.
- Powderhorn reopens the Flat Top Flyer after a 17 day unplanned closure.
- The Los Angeles City Council will vote today on a motion to halt approval of the Dodger Stadium Gondola.
- Arapahoe Basin moves to paid peak parking, may alter Ikon Pass access for next season.
- Sugarloaf load tests the newly shortened West Mountain double.
- Norway Mountain, Michigan begins selling season passes for reopening next season after seven years closed.
- FirstGroup, a large private operator of public transit, will take over operation of the London Cable Car.
News Roundup: The Notch
- Snow Ridge plans to spin all five lifts this season despite extensive tornado damage sustained in August.
- Mt. Holly postpones completion of the Lightning Express to next summer.
- Cockaigne, New York won’t open this season.
- Norway Mountain, Michigan begins maintenance on lifts in preparation for reopening next season.
- Whiteface’s new trail map shows the new Notch lift and angle station.
- Park City shares more details on the upcoming Sunrise Gondola.
- The New York Times profiles Vietnam’s record-breaking ropeways.
- A trial is set for January for eight defendants implicated in the 2021 Italian tram disaster.
News Roundup: Coming Back
- Powder Mountain is likely to replace Timberline with a fixed quad next year and leave the Indy Pass.
- Mt. Crescent, Iowa also leaves Indy.
- Norway Mountain, Michigan plans to reopen in 2024-25.
- Closed Val Bialas, New York also intends to reopen with a new chairlift.
- Vail Resorts may announce 2024 lift projects the afternoon of September 28th.
- Attitash’s new Mountaineer quad won’t be ready for opening day.
- Winter Park’s new six pack will be named Wild Spur Express.
- Skytrac President Carl Skylling talks chairlifts with Park City’s public radio station.
- Massanutten opens the first new lift of the year.
- Fresh off building two new lifts, Utah Olympic Park bleeds cash, lays off staff.
- Willamette Pass will reactivate the long-closed Midway chair.
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