As of April 30th, 26 potential Jay Peak buyers had signed non-disclosure agreements. The resort says revenue was up 4 percent this season, skier visits increased 3.5 percent and room nights shot up 11 percent.
Burke Mountain is still losing money but revenue increased by 26 percent this season, skier visits were up 20 percent and room nights 47 percent.
With the Forest Service’s blessing, Ski Cooper embarks on adding 71 acres and a Leitner-Poma T-Bar for next season.
The Poma-built urban cable car in the Dominican Republic capital transported over four million passengers in its first year.
Mexico City’s transportation authority rejects all three Cablebus bids from Leitner, Bartholet and Doppelmayr.
A Loveland, Colorado developer still wants to build a gondola as part of an amusement complex.
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority selects Elon Musk’s Boring Company to build a new people mover over Doppelmayr.
A Maine county joins the state in suing the owner of Big Squaw Mountain for failing to operate the resort, which once was the second largest in Vacationland.
The Lift 1 Corridor Project heads to Aspen voters March 5th.
Santo Domingo, the largest city in the Dominican Republic, solicits bids for its third and fourth urban gondola sections with hourly capacities of 6,000 and 4,500, respectively.
Last month’s lift evacuation at Whitefish got worldwide media attention. The Flathead Beacondigs into why the mountain was so well prepared for the situation.
The State of Pennsylvania looks to spend $7.8 million on new lifts at Denton Hill, where a Riblet triple, Hall double and two platter lifts last spun in 2014. A private operator is also being sought.
Maple Valley, Vermont – last operated in 2000 with three Hall lifts – sells to a new ownership group.
As Aspen Mountain prepares to reinvent Lift One, the Aspen Daily News traces the remarkable history of the original.
Doppelmayr will build and operate a $64 million urban 3S gondola in Moscow.
The Portland Aerial Tram is set to close for five weeks in June and July while the track ropes are slipped downhill.
As the public comment period nears its end, California Express faces critics.
Under the proposed Hermitage Club receivership, FTI Consulting would maintain properties but wouldn’t reopen the mountain for skiing next winter. The Club objects to some of the proposal even though the receivership would be dissolved if Berkshire Bank is paid in full or the assets auctioned off.
This guy is lucky to be okay and probably won’t be allowed back to Squaw Valley for a long time.
Boston’s Seaport gondola proposal might be in trouble.
The Forest Service gives a final green light to Purgatory’s Gelande lift project although construction this summer is uncertain.
Hefty tariffs on steel and aluminum coming into the United States from the European Union, Canada and Mexico take effect at midnight tonight.
North America’s newest urban gondolas, built by Poma in the Dominican capital of Santo Domingo, carried 41,000 riders in their first 18 hours last week.
Berkshire Bank seeks to foreclose on the Hermitage Club, saying the private ski area owes $16.6 million on $17.1 million in loans taken out between 2014 and 2017.
Hunter Mountain apologizes to season pass holders and explains in detail why two of its lifts went down for much of Presidents’ Week.
HeliOps profiles Brian Jorgenson of Timberline Helicopters, who explains why even at $1.50 per second, the UH-60 Black Hawk has become the gold standard for western ski lift missions.
The largest urban gondola system in North America will open this May in Santo Domingo, capital of the Dominican Republic.
Boston’s proposed Seaport gondola has a new route.
A conference center in Wisconsin called Forest Springs plans to expand its ski area with a new chairlift.
Silver Star’s new gondola is on track for a rare July opening with the top terminal and all foundations complete.
Check out photos and video of a four-section system with two haul ropes, glass-floor cabins and Leitner Ropeways’ first gondola aligned in the shape of a triangle, set to open this month at a nature park in Spain.
