• At Mont Sutton, an empty chair falls from one lift while the mountain’s lone detachable quad remains out of service due to a technical issue.
• A Victoria, BC suburb considers building a transport gondola.
• Purgatory loses its workhorse six pack over the busy holiday (now back open).
• Ontario ski resorts, many of which are family businesses, try to stay optimistic during the provincial shutdown.
• Royal Mountain, New York changes hands.
• Italy postpones reopening ski resorts until January 18th.
• Jay Peak and Burke Mountain are set to receive $5.2 million under a settlement between a law firm and investors.
• Kimberley continues to spin two upper mountain lifts for hikers and skinners while repair work continues on the Northstar Express.
• Wolf Creek has a new James Niehues trail map.
• Open only one day before the pandemic, the SkyView gondola at Hard Rock Stadium gets set to reopen March 22nd.
• The new T-Bar at Sugarbush is named KBRA (Kelly Brush Race Arena).
• A fall and catch are caught on camera at Bristol Mountain.
• A newspaper profiles how lift maintenance and operations teams work together at Snowmass.
• Winter Park safely evacuates 143 people from the Pioneer Express. Public records show a component in the return terminal failed due to fatigue.
• Testing finds further work is needed to make the Mont-Sainte-Anne gondola safe. It may not open for four to eight weeks and season passholders are being offered refunds.
• Porkies, Michigan shuts down to complete a required chairlift inspection.
• Bousquet Mountain will open tomorrow under new ownership with a new lift.
• Hunter Mountain reopens today after a three day Covid-related closure.