• Northeast gems Saddleback and Waterville Valley join the Indy Pass coalition, effective immediately.
• Winter Park Resort looks for the Forest Service’s blessing to replace multiple lifts.
• The Forest Service fully approves Keystone’s Bergman Bowl project.
• Welch Village voluntarily withdraws the East Quad from service following an unspecified incident (now back open).
• Guests of Mission Ridge love the Wenatchee Express and here’s the final episode of On the Way Up.
• Spirit Mountain lends a hand to repair the chairlift at nearby Chester Bowl.
• A girl is okay after falling from a Mohawk Mountain chairlift.
• A child also falls from a lift at Saddleback.
• Skyline at Pebble Creek is partially rope evacuated.
• Lookout Pass eyes 2022 for new lifts servicing Eagle Peak.
• More reports of stellar seasons from Iowa, New York and Pennsylvania.
• Cabins return to the Sea to Sky Gondola with more on the way.
• Mt. Bohemia considers building a lift in the Haunted Valley.
• Timberline Lodge closes for three days following a messy ice storm.
• Once a cartel hub, Medellín is a city transformed in part by a modern gondola network.
• Waterville Valley President and General Manager Tim Smith discusses a future gondola, bubble six pack and other lift changes.
• A rider who fell into a net along with another passenger and lift operator sues Snow King Mountain.
• Murray Ridge secures a six figure grant to rehabilitate one of the world’s longest T-Bars.
• MND reports revenue fell 5 percent in the second half of 2020 ($20.7 million in sales came from snowmaking and lifts.)
• Aspen will delay the Silver Queen Gondola‘s summer opening to complete big ticket maintenance items.
• Doppelmayr’s latest Wir magazine explores the Eiger Express.
• Saddleback closes for a day to shorten the haul rope on the new Rangeley quad.
• Poma will build an eight station urban gondola system in Madagascar with 274 cabins.
• Parent company Dream Unlimited says Arapahoe Basin is on track for its second best financial year ever despite opening four weeks late.
• Just two weeks to go until old lifts start coming down to make way for new ones.
• Squaw will experiment metering skiers at gates to avoid long lift lines at Silverado.
• The world’s largest urban gondola network might add four more lines.
• Big Squaw reopens tomorrow, two weeks after this deropement.
• A gondola is no longer a core component of the Oakland Athletics’ planned new stadium.
• There’s talk of building a 7,000 vertical foot gondola on Mt. Kilimanjaro.