• A new park map shows where Legoland New York’s gondola will go.
• A skiing preview of Deer Valley Expanded Excellence.
• The Colorado Sun embeds with departments who work all night to make Winter Park run.
• Afton Alps removes Chair 18 to make way for a tube park.
• Vail Resorts reports season-to-date skier visits are down 9.7 percent and lowers earnings guidance.
• From the classifieds: a 1987 Poma Quad for sale.
• Doppelmayr assumes patents needed for Autonomous Ropeway Operation (AURO) installations in the USA.
• Kimberley, BC files a new master plan.
• MND to make an announcement on April 16th.
• Upon learning of a young guest named Reid with a phobia of chairlifts, Stevens Pass staff spring into action, giving him a full day tour of mountain operations and making him an honorary lift operator.
• Red Lodge Mountain closes the Cole Creek quad due to a component failure within the lift terminal structure.
• A high speed quad is rope evacuated at Burke Mountain.
• Flat Top Flyer at Powderhorn remains closed awaiting delivery of parts.
• Sugarloaf closes King Pine for whatever this “mechanical problem” is.
• Guests were stuck on Blackcomb’s new gondola for hours yesterday.
• The OITAF World Congress for Ropeways is coming to Vancouver June 17-21.
• Leitner has reportedly paid more than $16 million in settlements to families of victims of the 2021 Stresa-Mottarone tram disaster.
• A D-Line gondola in Austria will run entirely on solar energy produced on site this summer.
• Grouse Mountain provides a gondola construction update.
• A raccoon rides Sugarbush’s Village quad.
• Costs double for the proposed gondola-served transit center at Steamboat.
• Also at Steamboat, Leitner-Poma appears to have won the contract to replace Sunshine Express.
• Leitner-Poma also appears to have upcoming projects at Big Bear Mountain Resort, Snowbasin and Wasatch Peaks Ranch.
• Chapman Hill will replace its main rope tow with a Leitner-Poma platter.
• Wachusett nears a decision to replace Polar Express with a six pack.
• The Town of Alta passes a resolution opposing the Little Cottonwood Canyon gondola.
• Red River shares renderings of its upcoming Copper Chair, will sell retiring Riblet chairs.