• The owner of West Mountain, NY tells the local paper there’s a 25 percent chance both of his new-used lifts will be finished this summer.  At least he’s honest!
• Some taxpayers are calling for Steamboat’s Howelsen Hill to abandon its Heron-Poma double after a landslide took out a tower.
• North America is getting its first Doppelmayr RopeCon at the El Limon gold mine under construction in Mexico.
• Indonesia’s first urban gondola will break ground in July.
• “Gondolas are already being used in areas with ice and snow,” says group wanting to build $20 million gondola in Buffalo, NY.
• (Some of) The cities that use ski lifts.
• Intrawest Exec says it costs $10 million to put in a new chairlift.
• Court of appeals in Australia reverses $1.4 million judgement against Perisher by doctor who was hit by a chair’s armrest while loading.