• Intrawest likely won’t buy any new lifts this year.
• TV station in Maine highlights lift maintenance and oversight with visits to Sugarloaf and Camden Snow Bowl.
• Denver7 lands the first interview with Larry Smith of the Colorado Passenger Tramway Board following Granby Ranch incident.
• Sunshine Polishing moving gondola refurbishing operation to Grand Junction.
• A $67 million, six-year old gondola in Rio sits abandoned.
• Poma double rope evacuated at Mont Orford.
• Heron-Poma double rope evac’d at Sleeping Giant before problem apparently fixed with a screwdriver.
• French lift site reports on two brand new lifts in Quebec.
• Waterville Valley’s new Green Peak triple will finally open Saturday.
• “Mexicable is a great experience and it is something that you need to do should you ever visit Mexico City.”
• Austrian rope manufacturer Teufelberger acquires Italian competitor Redaelli (Fatzer of Switzerland and ArcelorMittal of France are the other big two.)
• See more photos of the mind-blowing Giggijochbahn gondola.
• La Paz’s fourth gondola opens March 6th.
• Leitner Ropeways will complete the new 8-passenger gondola in Torreón, Mexico in April.
• British Columbia approves construction of Revelstoke Adventure Park with chairlift/gondola construction planned for 2017 and 2018 adjacent to Revelstoke Mountain Resort.
• Seilbahn Blog has some awesome new photos of the first and only D-Line chairlift.
• Seven year-old falls from chair at Thunder Ridge.
• The New York Times checks in at Tamarack.
• Arapahoe Basin formally unveils Beavers/Steep Gullies trail map & expansion plan with fixed-grip quad chairlift to debut in late 2018.
• Doppelmayr to build 21,000′, $18 million gondola in Silao, Mexico.
• Sugarloaf and Doppelmayr are doing a mid-season load test of Skyline on Thursday.