- HTI buys another company, Polish snowmaker Supersnow.
- Snowland, Utah’s new trail map is out.
- Brian Head introduces a new Rad Smith trail map.
- Skytrac celebrates its 100th sold lift, bound for Brian Head/Aspen Meadows.
- The latest on the Vail Resorts board battle.
- Poma to build a remarkable tricable gondola in Vietnam.
- Mont-Sainte-Anne’s next generation gondola to be named Horizon.
- Mount Kato, Minnesota sells to new local owners.
- Closed Mt. Waterman hits the market again.
- The skyride formerly used at MetLife Stadium finds a new home in Alabama.
- Snoqualmie installs battery storage systems for its most remote terminals at Alpental.
- A painting contractor sues Deer Valley after a lift allegedly started unexpectedly during work.
- A gondola is proposed for Flagstaff Mountain in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania.
- Powder to replace Mary’s with a (private) bubble detachable quad next summer, reinstall the old Sundown quad as another private lift.
Vail Resorts
News Roundup: Elk
- Grouse Mountain installs new CWA Kronos cabins on the Red Skyride.
- Despite a pending legal challenge, Park City announces 2027 construction of the long-delayed Silverlode eight place and Eagle six pack.
- Park City also plans a systems modernization on Crescent Express as part of Vail’s approximately $232 million 2027 capital plan.
- Vail reports fiscal year 2026 resort EBITDA down 11.7% and season pass sales for 26/27 down 12 percent in units and 6 percent in dollars.
- Oasis Management increases its ownership stake in Vail Resorts to 9 percent.
- After 15 months and $2.5 million, the Eldora sale requires restructuring and may never close without additional funding.
- Quebec’s CMSQ signs two more mountains to its new multi-mountain pass, La Passe Monts Québec.
- Winter Park replaces the pay-to-play Reserve Pass with “Rope Drop Club,” a free program that rewards passholders who ski early season with line cutting days later in the season.
- The Winter Park community could fund a $120 million gondola from town to the ski area via local taxes.
- International visits to the United States are on track to decline by nearly two million this year.
- Killington explains why maintaining a network of fixed-grip lifts remains important in the East.
- The Forest Service hears objections to the proposed Grand Targhee expansion and eyes resolution.
- Doppelmayr submits the apparent low bid to replace the chairlift at Hogadon, Wyoming.
- Cochran’s, Vermont might be up to something.
- From the classifieds: 1989 Doppelmayr quad for sale.
- Holiday Mountain names its new Partek triple Quickway, renames its Poma triple Neversink.
News Roundup: Northwest
- Public backlash quashes the Rock City, Georgia gondola project as currently designed.
- Revelstoke Mountain Resort tells local elected officials CA$120 million in new lift and snowmaking infrastructure depends mostly on real estate sales.
- The ski industry pushes back on proposed elimination of seasonal time changes.
- A wild viral video shows a haul rope being cut with an angle grinder on a decommissioned lift in France.
- Vail and Booth Creek visionary George Gillett, Jr. dies at 87.
- Eagle Point shares a fire recovery update.
- Goldbelt shares a Juneau tram crash recovery update.
- The lawsuit threatening Park City’s Iron Mountain Express heads to mediation.
- The activist investor seeking to influence Vail Resorts buys more shares.
- Snow Trails, Ohio to install new chairs on Alpine and tower heads on Silver.
- Loveland to replace Lift 2 with a Leitner-Poma detachable quad in a new alignment.
News Roundup: Public Funds
- After bids came in higher than expected for a new Cannon tram, New Hampshire looks for cost savings and more funding.
- As one of Waterville Valley’s owners runs for Senate, a political reporter outlines $28 million in government loan guarantees, pandemic assistance and grants to the resort and town over the past 15 years.
- The Government of Ontario considers a five station transit gondola on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls.
- The proposed Silvertip Gondola in Alberta receives key All Seasons Resort designation.
- Oasis Management officially files with the SEC to try and win seats on the Vail Resorts board.
- Alterra pulls back the Reserve Pass line cutting program at several mountains including Crystal and Solitude.
- MND opens a new subsidiary focused on Africa and India.
- A Minnesota state agency seeks a new operator for Giants Ridge. As part of the RFP, a master plan is revealed including a high speed quad replacing both Helsinki and Chamonix, Helsinki moving to replace Calgary plus a new south quad and beginner triple.
News Roundup: Proxy Fight
- Indy Pass adds Smugglers’ Notch, Vermont; Mt. Pisgah, New York; Winter4Kids, New Jersey; Spring Mountain, Pennsylvania; Veterans Memorial, New Hampshire and Ski Saint-Bruno, Quebec plus new international partners.
- Ikon Pass adds Caberfae Peaks, Michigan and Snowy Range, Wyoming as two day bonus mountains alongside new Asia partners.
- Manning Park. BC’s new master plan includes replacements for Blue and the T-Bar as well as a new terrain pod.
- 5,800 acres surrounding closed Big Tupper, New York to go up for auction.
- A pivotal vote regarding the proposed Rock City, Georgia gondola to take place September 21st.
- Canada imposes new tariffs on certain US goods including chairlifts, surface lifts and funiculars.
- Developers break ground on Aspen’s new Lift One base area with completion expected in 2030.
- A hotel project causes a gondola tower to shift in Romania.
- New carrier auctions: gondola cabins in Telluride, chairs from Seven Springs.
- Alterra outlines $350 million in CapEx this year.
- Wisp replaces two towers on Lift 4.
- A gondola could link Québec City and Lévis over the St. Lawrence River.
- An activist investor nominates a slate of candidates for the Vail Resorts board.
- A criminal investigation is opened following a chairlift death at Vorlage, Quebec last winter, though no charges have been filed.
News Roundup: Ontario
- A gyrocopter crashes into a utility aerial tram at an Italian dam, killing two onboard the aircraft.
- A French aerial tramway strikes a construction crane, injuring 23 onboard the tram.
- In just nine months, an urban gondola in Paris becomes the most-ridden lift in Europe with over two million passengers.
- The Governor of Utah criticizes MIDA, a state entity started to support the military but now involved with Deer Valley East, Sundance expansion and a proposed data center.
- Vail Resorts faces a shareholder lawsuit.
- Doppelmayr Canada and Gondola Ventures sign a letter of intent to explore aerial gondola transport in Wasaga Beach, Ontario.
- Mt. Jefferson, Maine hits the market.
- Black Mountain to add a mid-station to the existing Triple Chair for beginners.
- Indy Pass teases “huge news” and new partners coming next week.
- Mission Ridge, Washington and Blacktail Mountain, Montana will not be part of the Indy Pass for 2026-27.
- Snow Partners adds seven new mountains to Snow Triple Play and introduces a new frequency product called Snow Pass with western resorts Monarch and Snow King.
- Maverick Mountain begins fundraising to replace its lift that burned down earlier this month.
- Attractions operator Pursuit shares plans to replace both the Jasper SkyTram and Banff Gondola by 2030.
- Tremblant begins preliminary work on the Timber expansion first announced in March 2020.
- A small wildfire closes Park City Mountain for a day.
News Roundup: Long-Awaited
- Cherry Peak, Utah is listed for sale with an asking price of $22.5 million.
- Glen Eden, Ontario to replace the Ridge quad with a new one in 2027.
- Sommet Saint-Sauveur, Quebec will replace Côte 71 with a six pack in ’27.
- Rock City, Georgia continues making the case for a sightseeing gondola.
- Bluewood, Washington receives lift parts delayed over a year due to an ongoing lawsuit.
- A decision on Park City’s proposed Eagle and Silverlode replacements could come in the next few weeks after four years of limbo.
- The Chief of the Forest Service considers giving more control of National Forests to states (speaking at Deer Valley Resort, one of the few large western resorts not on Forest Service land.)
- The President threatens new tariffs on Canadian goods due to wildfire smoke.
- Vail Resorts vows to improve the guest experience at its resorts.
News Roundup: Breathtaking
- Four cabins pileup on a tall Poma gondola tower in Russia.
- Eagle Point posts another update including photos and videos of heavy fire damage.
- Lifts at Asessippi, Manitoba flood for a second time this summer.
- The WestJet Skyride at the Calgary Stampede reopens in a modified, shorter configuration.
- Alterra and Vail seek dismissal of a proposed season pass competition class action.
- Aspen auctions chairs from both Bell Mountain and Little Nell; Loveland to raffle Lift 5 chairs to employees and season passholders.
- 49 Degrees North will soon offer chairs from Payday.
- Both Leitner-Poma and Doppelmayr are listed as qualified bidders for the Cannon Tram replacement RFP with bids due August 5th.
- Whitecap Mountains emerges from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection under existing management.
- The Forest Service accepts a fresh Monarch Mountain master plan which includes five lift replacements, a base-to-ridge detachable quad and second lift in No Name Basin.
News Roundup: Ropeway Ban
- Eagle Point provides an initial fire assessment; four of five lifts sustained damage.
- Less than a month after a tower was bent on the Tamarack Express, Leitner-Poma and Tamarack install a whole new tower with the lift set to reopen tomorrow.
- The Goldbelt Tram remains closed following an April crash now reported to be caused by inexperienced staff mistakes.
- The story of how a small town in Arkansas got an $8.5 million detachable serving 280 vertical feet.
- Hawaii officially bans commercial chairlifts, gondolas and tramways statewide.
- The family of a child killed on a Quebec chairlift last winter speaks out.
- Deer Valley outlines the next two years of East Village development.
- Donner Ski Ranch offers free lift tickets to guests who photograph distracted lift operators.
- Mont-Sainte-Anne’s upcoming bubble six pack to be named L’Évolution Express.
- Several prominent Vail residents join Matthew Prince’s criticism of Vail Resorts infrastructure and trajectory.
- A filing reveals the precise alignment for Kicking Horse’s recently announced Pioneer Express.
- The Forest Service to host a Waterville Valley expansion open house on July 15th.
- OITAF’s Ropeway Innovations symposium to be held in Park City next June.
News Roundup: Owned & Operated
- Lost Trail, Montana/Idaho seeks permission to replace Chair 1, Chair 2 and Chair 4 with high speed quads and utilize retired equipment for a new beginner lift.
- Aerial footage shows Eagle Point’s lifts still standing after wildfire but with unknown heat damage.
- Vail Resorts vigorously defends its owned and operated network model.
- New York’s Governor forms an exploratory committee for hosting the 2042 Winter Olympics.
- The Getty Museum in Los Angeles announces a Doppelmayr automated people mover.
- Lutsen Mountains begins charging extra for private gondola cabins and priority boarding.
- Donner Ski Ranch asks guests to report lift operators distracted by cell phones.
- Leitner to reach more than 40 miles of urban gondolas throughout Mexico.
- The Forest Service approves Telluride’s proposed replacements for lifts 7 and 8.
