- Mountain Capital Partners may enter the Midwest with a deal to operate Spirit Mountain, Minnesota. Under the proposal, MCP would lease the mountain for a minimum of 20 years beginning in October.
- Vail raises Epic Pass prices approximately 3.5 percent, offers a discount to young adults 30 and under.
- Alterra raises Ikon prices roughly 5 percent, adds Tamarack, Idaho and Devil’s Head, Wisconsin to its bonus mountain tier while removing SilverStar, BC.
- Granite Peak, Wisconsin; Lutsen Mountains, Minnesota and Snowriver, Michigan switch from Indy Pass to Ikon Pass.
- Snowmass returns and Arapahoe Basin will go unlimited on the Ikon Base Pass.
- The Wall Street Journal visits Telluride owner Chuck Horning, who says he’s “never selling.”
- The BBC profiles lift operations at Whistler Blackcomb.
- The LA Times visits independent Mt. Baldy, surrounded by Alterra in Southern California.
- SAM digs into how a small Wisconsin ski area went from closed to buying two brand new Skytrac lifts.
- Snowbird will replace Chickadee this spring.
- Pomerelle, Idaho’s General Manager buys the mountain with his wife.
- Shanty Creek, Michigan also sells to new owners.
- The cost of used gondola installation at Eaglecrest balloons from under $9 million to as much as $37 million. A report finds the gondola would make the ski area profitble on an operating basis and canceling the project would cost taxpayers $10.9 million.
- In Iowa, a government-owned ski area fundraises for a brand new chairlift.
- Revelstoke’s Stoke chair to be out of service at least three days for gearbox repair.
- Stagecoach Mountain Ranch inches toward approval near Steamboat.
- The top operator house on Chair 1 at Titus Mountain, New York burns down, rendering the lift inoperable.
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News Roundup: Rough Week
- A ski patroller dies at Titus Mountain, New York in an accident involving a chairlift.
- Bittersweet, Michigan says last week’s lift incident was caused by high winds.
- A 15 year old dies after falling from a lift at Sommet Morin Heights, Quebec.
- Hickory, New York to open this weekend for the first time in years.
- Sandia Peak works toward doing the same.
- Sleeping Giant, Wyoming won’t open this season.
- Neither will Misty Ridge, Alberta.
- A viral video shows chairs stacking up on a de-roped lift in France.
- Nordic Valley reopens after a lodge fire shuttered the resort.
- Doppelmayr and Mantis Ropeway Technologies secure regulatory approval for unmanned chairlift unloading stations in Austria and Switzerland.
- The Mantis system is also undergoing testing in Canada.
- Leitner Ropeways provides significant compensation to the families of 14 people who died in a 2021 Italian tram incident.
- Vail Resorts reports North American early season skier visits declined 16.2 percent but lift and ski school revenue were up.
- Hundreds sign a petition urging Powder Mountain to maintain public access to two existing and one future chairlift planned to go private.
- PowMow asks the public to weigh in where the outgoing Paradise Quad should be reinstalled.
- Double Diamond/Southern Cross at Stevens Pass closes for repair.
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