• Ski Wentworth in Nova Scotia names its new Quad Cobequid after the local mountain range.
• The Seattle Times profiles this year’s turnaround at Stevens Pass.
• The Merrill Hill expansion opens at Sunday River after two years of construction.
• Bear Valley’s Grizzly chair is closed due to a deropement and four chairs being ejected from the haul rope (note: the description in the Instagram post is not accurate but the resort comments below the post.)
• A child is hospitalized after falling from a lift at Ski Sundown.
• Storm damage forces more comm line replacements at Sierra at Tahoe.
• Tenney Mountain to open next weekend for the first time since 2020.
• Big Squaw goes back up for sale.
• The oldest lift in Colorado will cease operations unless a new owner comes along.
• The Forest Service approves Waterville Valley’s World Cup/Exhibition T-Bar, though no construction timeline has been set.
• Former Big Sky/Crystal Mountain General Manager and prolific lift builder John Kircher dies at 64.
• Whitewater returns Silver King to service after a bullwheel bearing replacement.
• Crystal Mountain and Leitner-Poma work to reopen the Crystal Clipper this weekend.
• Deer Valley to launch Burns Express this afternoon.
• Doppelmayr pulls the haul rope for the new quad at Belle Neige (note: this lift was contracted with a February completion date.)
• Doppelmayr and Telluride still aren’t sure when Plunge Express will open.
• A misload causes a chair to get tangled in a terminal at Wolf Creek.
• A deropement leads to a rope evacuation at Crested Butte.
• Similar story at Brimacombe, Ontario.
• Whitefish rope evacuates the brand new Snow Ghost Express, says it had safety concerns that Leitner-Poma engineers are working to address.
• Palisades re-splices and reopens the new Red Dog Express.
• I’m told Bridger at Nordic Valley will miss the entire season due to a planned haul rope replacement.
• Aspen’s Silver Queen Gondola goes down due to a gearbox issue.