• The Forest Services releases its Environmental Assessment for a modified Purgatory Ice Creek expansion and seeks public comments.
• Bluewood closes for a weekend due to drive line issues with the Skyline Express triple (now back open).
• For the first time in 15 years, The Summit at Snoqualmie sends a cat to the top of Alpental to clear snow from the Edelweiss lift line and top terminal.
• A Canadian resort trains a very good dog to catch and hold Ts for skiers.
• One of only two chairlift operations in Kentucky goes up for sale (asking price $750,000).
• Aspen Snowmass visitation falls significantly.
• Another chairlift fall video, this time from China.
• Also in China, Poma nears completion of a world first: three interconnected 3S gondolas.
• There was a serious grip slip incident at Snowstar, Illinois a few weeks ago.
• A company called Towpro tries breaking into the surface lift business with a low cost rope tow.
• Ski Area Management and Leitner-Poma launch a contest to recognize top lift maintenance teams.
• Arapahoe Basin will continue limiting both season pass and day ticket sales next season.
• No reservations will be required for passholders across Vail Resorts next season.
• After a few weeks idled, Big Sky announces Dakota will remain closed for the remainder of the 20-21 season due to “mechanical challenges.”
• Warner Brothers abandons plans to build a Hollywood gondola, opting to focus on its core business.
• A wild Red Bull video features an athlete sliding down a six pack’s haul rope under a parachute.
• A maintenance worker is injured when the chair he was riding falls from a Bartholet lift in Luxembourg.