More on the Eiger Express: Not only does it feature the first automated cargo loading on a passenger ropeway, but also a VIP cabin with boarding from a dedicated lounge (cost: $13,500 per year.)
This interview with Hermitage Club manager Bill Benneyan includes tons of historical facts about Haystack and also Mountain Creek. The Club opens tomorrow for the first time in two and a half years.
Mission Ridge works hard to complete the lift it brought over from Europe but cannot estimate a completion date.
Residents seek to stop construction of Wasatch Peaks Ranch, a 3,000 acre private ski resort near Snowbasin.
Leitner-Poma of America introduces Freedom Control, a wireless remote control for lifts.
A lawsuit seeking class action status alleges lift operators and other employees at Vail Resorts were not paid for use of personal equipment and time spent getting to and from work stations.
When asked about acquisitions on last night’s earnings call, Rob Katz said Vail is focused on positioning the company to be able to make the most of whatever opportunities may come over the next 12 months.
Vail is forced to cancel some guest reservations and black out employee skiing in Colorado this weekend due to limited snow and terrain.
Vail Resorts retires some former Peak Resorts lifts: Mad River at Mad River Mountain, the Double Chair at Alpine Valley and Black Forest at Big Boulder (all Hall doubles).
One of Marble Mountain’s chairlifts will sit idle this season and the ski area won’t open until January.
Chairs are being sold off from three of six chairlifts at closed Sugar Loaf, Michigan.
TimberlineMountain.com goes live with a new trail map.
With the launch of a gondola up Hoonah Mountain next year, an Alaska Native corporation sees new opportunities for development.
Despite a 30 percent drop in business last winter, at least two New Zealandresorts plan to build new lifts this offseason.
As Smartwool moves headquarters from Steamboat to Denver, the company gifts $1.5 million to Howelsen Hill for a new Barrows chairlift, to be built by Skytrac.
A Michigan ski area with 12 lifts won’t make snow and will operate weekends only due to Coronavirus.
Mont-Sainte-Anne is no longer certain its base-to-summit gondola will be functional by December.
Big Sky wraps up a busy season of preparation for the Swift Current 6 top terminal and carrier storage facility.
Highland readies for mountain bike season with new chairs acquired from Nashoba Valley.
Alterra makes modest changes to Ikon in light of recent events: delaying price increases by a month and increasing renewal discounts. Late today, the company added Adventure Assurance, permitting purchasers to defer their 2020-21 Ikon value to a 2021-22 pass if desired.
The Forest Service expects to have a decision on Keystone’s Bergman Bowl expansion by December.
Residents in opposition to Mexico City’s Cablebús Line 1 win an injunction stopping some construction.
The Colorado Sun goes inside the decision to close Colorado’s ski industry five Saturdays ago.
Vail Resorts reports financial results: skier visits are down 5.3 percent percent this season through March 1st but lift revenue is up 0.8 percent. On a conference call, CEO Rob Katz addresses coronavirus, lift lines at Vail and possible future acquisitions.
Timberline Mountain promises to make multiple big announcements at a media event Tuesday. All three existing lifts are in poor condition and being dismantled.
Arctaris Impact Fund doesn’t expect to realize a profit on its Saddleback investment until it sells the resort in 7-10 years.
An enterprising family is building the first Australian-designed and manufactured chairlift in 30 years for private use only.
Alterra Mountain Company CEO Rusty Gregory will deliver a keynote address on Monday in Park City covering the rise of Alterra, industry consolidation and multi-resort pass products.
For the second time in three weeks, a sudden stop on the Mont-Sainte-Anne gondola elicits an emergency response and the lift is once again closed indefinitely.
Gould Academy sells the naming rights to its T-Bar at Sunday River to Alera Group, an employee benefits firm.
Ski Bluewood’s former platter lift can be yours for $19,000.
To celebrate new carpool and transit initiatives, Crystal Mountain debuts a green gondola cabin.
Does the public have the right to know what individual ski resorts pay the federal government for use of public lands? Vail Resorts and the National Ski Areas Association argue no.
The New York Timesvisits Woodward Park City in its first week of operation.
Sun Valley and Snowbasin prepare for their first peak period after switching from Mountain Collective to Epic.
The Saddleback deal won’t close on Monday as scheduled but hopefully sometime in January.
