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News Roundup: Breathtaking

July 10, 2026Peter Landsman3 Comments

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: Around the USA

June 19, 2026Peter Landsman7 Comments

Alberta conceptually approves the master plan for a Fortress Mountain reboot.
Waterville Valley and the Forest Service to host a public meeting regarding a proposed gondola on June 26th.
Revelstoke will host an info session on the future of the resort June 24th.
Cannon Mountain issues a request for bids for an 80 passenger tramway reusing certain components from the last tram with an expected completion date of December 1, 2028.
Amid bankruptcy, Whitecap Mountains lists a disused CTEC for sale.
Vail Resorts reportedly hires takeover defense bankers.
Alterra says a new law in Colorado could unlock public funding for a Winter Park town gondola.
Aspen-Pitkin County Airport’s new terminal design leaves room for a future gondola to town.
The federal government will fund a new haul rope for Whaleback, New Hampshire’s double chair.
Both ladder trucks and ropes are used to rescue riders from the skyride at Dutch Wonderland, Pennsylvania.
Teton County, Wyoming plans an objection to Grand Targhee’s expansion plan.
A black bear cub climbs a tower on Whistler’s Fitzsimmons 8.
A new operator plans to reopen Spout Springs, Oregon with help from the family that owns Timberline Lodge.
Big Sky dismantles parts of Powder Seeker to move the top terminal due to ground movement.

Lots of construction pictures from readers this week starting with Deer Valley’s Hail Peak expansion:

Next Caberfae Peaks, Michigan’s expansion lift:

And finally Powderhorn, Colorado’s Wild West Express:

News Roundup: Canadian Retirements

November 21, 2025Peter Landsman9 Comments

The town of Nederland, Colorado expects to close its purchase of Eldora before the end of the year for $115 to $120 million.
Park City’s new map shows the soon-to-open Sunrise Gondola.
Loon Mountain drops an all-new Rad Smith map showing a future pulse gondola.
The CTEC 2 quad disappears from Paoli Peaks’ trail map.
Searchmont, Ontario retires the Quad lift; eyes a longer replacement.
Marble Mountain, Newfoundland won’t operate Black Mariah or Newfie Bullet this season; may remove them.
Telluride begins hiring temporary patrollers to prepare for a possible strike.
Black Mountain files a federal lawsuit against the town of Jackson, New Hampshire over a liquor license revocation.
Here’s a detailed Deer Valley East construction update.
SE Group’s Chris Cushing joins the Ski Utah podcast; shares the only alignment from Deer Valley’s original master plan with no lift yet.
Hatley Point, North Carolina eyes building a base-to-summit six pack; reactivating Breakaway and Beginner in 2026.
Whitecap Mountains, Wisconsin files for bankruptcy, plans to continue operating during reorganization.
Doppelmayr’s latest UP magazine highlights several projects at Lake Louise and more.

News Roundup: Conical Towers

November 14, 2025November 16, 2025Peter Landsman9 Comments

Hickory, New York closes.
Steel erection begins for the only lift in Arkansas.
Cannon’s new map shows no more tram.
Steel and aluminum tariffs increase the cost of certain maintenance projects on the Telluride-Mountain Village gondola by 50 percent.
Vail CEO Rob Katz reiterates his company’s desire to build new Eagle and Silverlode lifts at Park City.
A wildlife reserve in Kentucky plans a three station sightseeing gondola.
Sir Sam’s, Ontario retires the Red Rocket and Eagle View doubles.
The Los Angeles City Council votes 12-1 to oppose a Dodger Stadium gondola.
MND hires a Director of Ropeways for North America.
Snowland, Utah eyes building a T-Bar or J-Bar next summer with $1.46 million in state grant money.
Unionized patrollers at Breckenridge and Eldora ink new contracts; negotiations continue at Telluride and Whitefish.
A rider falls from the Montezuma Express at Keystone.
Whitecap Mountains, Wisconsin could go to foreclosure auction on December 2nd.
Enjoy these Argo progress photos from reader Munier S.

News Roundup: Changing Hands

September 23, 2022Peter Landsman1 Comment

Vancouver’s transit authority begins the station design process for the Burnaby Mountain Gondola.
Three Park City residents who own Pacific Group Resorts expect to close on Jay Peak next month.
Burke Mountain may also soon be sold.
Arapahoe Basin creates a podcast episode all about Lenawee Express construction.
A Basin also explains why a big drop in skier visits is a good thing.
Energy prices where many of the world’s lifts are operated and manufactured could spike eight fold this winter.
Eaglecrest’s new gondola arrives in Alaska.
Sugar Bowl joins the Mountain Collective.
Hunter Mountain will sell chairs from the Z Lift next week.
A thousand page report outlines negligence and poor management leading to deaths of 14 people on an Italian tramway last year.
Dry Hill, New York gets new owners.
The top station building for a 125 passenger aerial tramway partially burns in Switzerland.
The Forest Service seeks public comments on Copper Mountain’s proposed Timberline six pack.
The General Manager of Whitecap Mountains, Wisconsin assumes full ownership.
A new neighborhood adjacent to Mayflower Mountain Resort will feature its own chairlift.
Mt. Bachelor’s new Skyliner six pack will be D-Line.
Loveland and Lookout Pass fly lift towers into place.
British Columbia determines a volunteer ski patroller injured in a chairlift de-ropement is eligible for worker’s compensation.
Leitner wins a four station urban gondola contract in Colombia.
Here are some official and unofficial updates on the Palisades Tahoe Base-to-Base Gondola.
Also an update on Thunder from Jackson Hole:

News Roundup: Atria

April 12, 2019Peter Landsman13 Comments

Poma’s largest single lift contract ever is worth more than $110 million for a six station, 100 cabin 3S system in China.
Whitecap Mountains still wants to build its first new lift since 1991 but doesn’t yet have funding.
A 70 year old woman is okay after falling from Whistler’s new Emerald 6 Express last Saturday.
Doppelmayr will introduce two new products at Interalpin: a new 3S cabin called Atria and something called Smart Ropeway.
Mi Teleférico crosses the 200,000,000 passenger mark and is on track to transport more than 40 million by gondola this year.
A feasibility study will look at whether Teton Pass could reopen as private company, nonprofit or co-op.
West Mountain confirms a Partek quad will replace its last classic chairlift.
Casper, Wyoming is unlikely to put six figures towards a Hogadon quad chairlift after all.
The Glenwood Gondola reopens today with all 44 cabins.
The Hermitage Club founder’s wife files for bankruptcy and lists $8.5 million in debt related to the closed ski resort.
Mount St. Louis Moonstone’s Louis Express is up for sale.
Arapahoe Basin is in talks with the Mountain Collective and others about possibly joining a multi-resort pass on a limited basis.
A judge will consider whether to place Timberline Resort into receivership next Thursday.

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