• Vail Resorts reportsskier visits down 3.1%, lift revenue up 3.4%, ski school revenue up 2.7%, dining up 2.2% and retail/rental down 4.0% with pass sales for next year down slightly in units.
• Burke Mountainto be sold to Bear Den Partners for $11.5 million.
• Park City explores possible routes for aMain Street-Deer Valley gondola.
• Ski Utahcontinues advocating for a Little Cottonwood gondola.
• Tellurideseeks approval for yet-to-be-specified projects from its master plan.
• Boyne launchestwo multi-resort pass products good at all their resorts.
• Local artists to transform Park City Sunrise chairs into works of art to beauctioned for charity.
• Italy opens acriminal investigation into last week’s fatal tram incident involving a haul rope failure and track rope brake failure on one of two cabins.
• Steeplechase, Minnesotaturns to crowdfunding to finance expansion.
• Leitner-Poma Canada ishiring lift installers for a project at Whitewater, BC.
• Loveland to operate the new Lift 7 quadas a triple.
• Killington isfull steam ahead on Superstar replacement.
• Red Lodge Mountainbegins repairing the chairlift involved in a fatal incident last month.
• Palisades Tahoe invites local high school students onmountain operations tours to aid with recruitment.

• Sipapu, New Mexicoproposes replacing one of thelast detachable Poma lifts in the United States.
• Four people are killed in an aerial tramway crash in Italy.
• Skiland, Alaskarope evacuates its only chairlift.
• Kicking Horsecloses for the season without its gondola; any compensation for passholders affected by five weeks of gondola closure to be determined at a later date.
• Two new gondolasnear completion in West Virginia.
• South Carolina’s only gondola isalmost ready to roll.
• Bretton Woodsformally announces the Bethlehem Express replacement project.
• A Utah court of appealshears arguments from Park City the town and Park City the ski area re: canceled 2022 Eagle and Silverlode lift projects.
• Vail alsotussles with South Lake Tahoe over Heavenly parking and taxation.
• Titcomb Mountain, Mainefundraises to build a new T-Bar as soon as this summer.

• HTI, the parent company of Agudio, Bartholet, Leitner, Poma, LPOA and Skytrac,reports stable revenue of €1.4 billion and record R&D investment of €41 million.
• Leitnerteases “the exclusive launch of a groundbreaking new standard for monocable uni-directional ropeways” at Interalpin.
• Leitner also nears completion of amaterial transport gondola that includes a 1,600 foot underground tunnel.
• The next phase of the Bartholet RopeTaxi on demand gondola network isdelayed to December.
• President Trumptempers announced tariffs on most countries to 10% for 90 days.
• Calls continue for the Government of Quebec to terminate its lease with Resorts of the Canadian Rockies for Mont-Sainte-Anne.
• Freakonomics tackles theeconomics of ski areas with help from Loveland and Mt. Ashland.
• Mt. Hood Meadows toretire the Blue double without replacement, raffle the chairs.
• Alpental plans anall weekend celebration for the retirement of iconicChair 2.
• Doppelmayrbreaks ground on its new Salt Lake City building.
• French authoritiespropose nearly €2 million in fines against MND and its investors for alleged disclosure and insider trading violations.
• You canbuy an Overbrook chair from Ski Butternut
• McCauley is alsoselling chairs.
• CBS dramaFire Country to feature aficticious ski lift disaster tonight.

• Homewood toreopen next season but its D-Line gondoladelivered in 2023 won’t be installed this summer.
• Powdrabandons plans to sell Mt. Bachelor.
• Powdr’s sale of Eldora is said to be in thefinal stages.
• Le Massif, Quebecsigns on to the Ikon Pass.
• New details emerge from the antitrust case against the owner of Song Mountain and Labrador Mountain, New York; he plans to appeal.
• Whaleback, New Hampshire looks towarda new chairlift.
• Sun Valleyseeks to be removed from a lawsuit filed by a homeowner regarding the placement of the newFlying Squirrel quad.
• Stratton’sAmerican Express closes early and will reopen for summer later than normal for amajor systems modernization.
• The Forest Serviceapproves Steamboat to replaceSunshine Express with a six pack.
• The world’ssecond largest gondola network is proposed in India with 15 stations and 660 cabins.
• If Bluewood, Washington can’t complete its planned relocation of a used high speed quad from Austria next season, it willkeep its Borvig lift and credit passholders $100.
• The US government implements ablanket 20% tariff on goods from the European Union and 31% on products from Switzerland, both major source regions for lift components.
• Skeetawk, Alaskaworks to repair its only chairlift but snow may run out first.
• Arctic Valley, Alaska’sT-Bar will be inoperable the rest of the season due to anincident damaging the haul rope.
• Holiday Mountain, New York looks to reopen long lost terrain with athird chairlift.
• Alta torealign Supreme this summer, re-doing every foundation and re-using towers and terminals.
• Castle Mountain’s expansion lift to be calledStagecoach Express.
• The owner of Berkshire East and Catamount would operate Burke Mountain under aproposed sale to local investors. The group also plans torefurbish the J-Bar and relocate Willoughby if the sale goes through.

• The Forest Serviceapproves three lift projects at Taos, including abase to base gondola.
• Red Lodge Mountainreopens all lifts except theTriple Chair involved in last month’sfatal incident.
• The widow of the man killed at Red Lodgehires a law firm and engineer to look into the circumstances.
• Telluride Ski Resortdeclines to help fund a new Mountain Village gondola so the town looks to pass a lift ticket tax.
• Powder Mountainto construct a new lift in Wolf Canyon/DMI.
• A childfalls from a lift at Park City.
• Anurban gondola is floated in Denver.
• Cataloochee, North Carolina lists parts from theOmigosh doublefor sale.
• New York’s state-owned ski areas reportvisitation up over 3 percent this season with revenue up more than 8 percent.
• Black Mountain, New Hampshiredelays going to a co-op model, will continue to be run by Indy Pass for now.
• Whaleback, NHpasses $100,000 toward its goal of $250,000 to continue operations.
• The Caribou-Targhee National Forest weighs whether tochange its forest plan to accommodate Grand Targhee’sproposed South Bowl and/or Mono Trees expansions.
• The Arapaho National Forest releases theDraft Environmental Assessment for Winter Park’sproposed Gemini Gondola, Copper Creek South chairlift,Looking Glass replacement,Endeavour replacement andDiscovery replacement.
• Park City shuttersSunrise toresume construction of theSunrise Gondola.

• 19deluxe cabins arrive stateside for South Carolina’s only gondola.
• Ragged Mountain goeson the market.
• Leitner-Poma posts anad hiring lift installers for a project at Crystal Mountain, Washington.
• A widowsues Breckenridge following her husband’s fatal fall from theZendo chair, alleging “an unreasonable amount of snow and ice accumulation.”
• Purgatory acknowlegesbelt tightening on the mountain as it renegotiates long term debt.
• The Forest Service shows two Mission Ridge expansion proposals ascanceled.
• The Forest Service releases aDraft Environmental Impact Statement for Grand Targhee’s proposed expansion including three pared down alternatives.
• Big Skyraises $150,000 for charity sellingExplorer chairs.
• An idea to connect two Seattle neighborhoods by gondolaresurfaces.
• Leitner teases a “New Era of Ropeways” coming at Interalpin.
• Relations sour between the Town of Mountain Village and Telluride Ski Resort owner Chuck Horning with the Town Manager giving alengthy speech about problems at the resort.
• Skeetawk, Alaska’s only chairlift shuts down for amulti-week repair.
• Stowe’sFourRunner quad has been out of service all week.
• Vailreopens Riva Bahn after a two week gearbox rebuild.
• Kicking Horse’s gondolaremains closed indefinitely; the resort will transport gear up to Stairway to Heaven free of charge but guests still have to walk there.
• Vail Resortspresents its strategic vision to investors.

• Avideo shows theKicking Horse incident was exacerbated by running the damaged hanger to a tower, causing the lift to de-rope. Thegondola will beclosed at least a week and likely longer; the resort will allow guests to hike or skin toStairway to Heaven.
• The snowboarder whodied after falling from Red Lodge Mountain’s Triple Chair on Monday is identified as37 year old Jeffrey Zinne of Billings in an incident described as a “malfunction.”
• A child was airlifted to Denver afterfalling 35 feet from thePurgatory Village Express the same day as the Kicking Horse and Red Lodge incidents.
• Leitner-Poma postsjobs for ski lift installers at Bretton Woods, Loveland, OZ Trails Bike Park, Powder Mountain, Snowmass, Snowbasin, Taos and Wasatch Peaks Ranch.
• New York Statewins its case against a ski resort owner for buying Toggenburg to close it and reduce competition.
• Snowbasin to sell chairs from the Becker liftfor charity.
• Loup Loup, Washington ends its season early due to arequired motor repair.
• Vail’sRiva Bahn Express has beenclosed all week due to a gearbox issue requiring a rebuild.
• Vail Resortsreports solid results with season-to-date skier visits down 2.5%, lift ticket revenue up 4.1%, ski school revenue up 3.0%, dining revenue 3.1% and retail/rental revenue down 2.9%. Net income for the quarter ended January 31st increased 11.9%.
• Tenney Mountain, New Hampshirestill plans to reopen theHornet some time this winter following a gearbox issue.
• Another lawsuit is filed against the Little Cottonwood gondola proposal.
• Attitashreopens theFlying Bear five weeks after achair fell from the line.Draft minutes from the New Hampshire Passenger Tramway Safety Board suggest multiple damaged carriers were found and Attitash was approved to reduce capacity from 82 to 64 carriers.Update Monday 3/17: Vail PR sent me this statement, emphasis theirs:“During our inspection process, we made the decision to reinspect all our chairs and grips, haul rope, sheaves, terminals, and more.  Following our inspection, we are taking the opportunity to replace parts on some chairsunrelated to the incident as a part of routine upgrades. These chairs will remain temporarily out of service until the parts arrive. This was a decision made by the resort, that the Passenger Tramway Safety Board unanimously approved at the March 3rd board meeting. We have been given permission to run the lift between the manufacturer’s minimum and maximum design specifications.”
• Ober Mountain, Tennessee opens the newSky Village Express.
• Whistler Blackcomb completes amid-season rope inspection and splice due to a broken haul rope strand on theEmerald 6 Express.
• WB alsopulls the plug on summer skiing due to glacial recession and its impact on lift access.
• A community co-op effort wasunable to submit a bid for Mt. Bachelor.
• Vista Ridge, Albertacloses both its chairlifts indefinitely to conduct a review following several evacuations.
• Alpental willclose two weeks early so crews can work to build the new Chair 2 over snow in a roadless area.
• Ditto for Explorer at Big Sky as it’s replaced with a gondola.
• After running ondiesel generators for a decade, theSea to Sky Gondola‘s upper terminal is connected to grid power for the first time.
• Whaleback, New Hampshire says itneeds to raise $250,000 to fund off season maintenance and chairlift repairs.
• Titcomb Mountain looks toretire and replaceT-Bar 2.
• Powder Mountain to build aprivate, homeowner only Leitner-Poma detachable quad this summer.
• Snowbird’sMineral Basin reopening is further delayed due to “unforseen additional issues“.
• The Forest Serviceapproves Alta to replaceSupreme with a new lift and noeight degree bend.
• Pending approval of its members, Bryce Resortplans to install a third Skytrac on the backside of the mountain this summer.

• Ikon Pass adds Ischgl, Austria; loses Windham Mountain Club, New York and makes Arapahoe Basin unlimited with no blackouts. Full Ikon also adds two bonus days at Buck Hill, Minnesota; Cranmore, New Hampshire; Jiminy Peak, Massachusetts and Wild Mountain, Minnesota.
• Arapahoe Basinleaves the Mountain Collective Pass.
• Vail makesminimal changes to Epic Pass for next year.
• Indy Pass adds Burke Mountain, Vermont and Tenney Mountain, New Hampshire.
• The family behind Wisconsin Resorts Inc.want to buy Burke Mountain but the resort’sreceiver says he has a better buyer.
• Wisconsin Resorts-owned Searchmont, Ontario teases multiple future terrain expansions on anew trail map.
• The group behind Perfect North Slopes, Indianawill operate Swiss Valley, Michigan
• Arope evacuation at Norway Mountain, Michigan.
• Fresh off building four new lifts, Powder Mountain hastwo more in the pipeline.
• Ski Cooper, Coloradoslashes midweek tickets to $45, revenue surges.
• Also at Cooper, a skier is airlifted to the hospital afterfalling from a lift.
• Vailsettles a lawsuit with a woman who fell from a lift at Stevens Pass.
• Park Citygets Pioneer going for the first time this season.
• Woods Valley, New York toreplaces its T-Bar with a CTEC quad ending higher on the mountain.
• 7th Heaven at Blackcomb suffers fromdelayed openings, closures and reduced speeds due to an electrical issue.
• Snowbird’sMineral Basin Expressrepair timeline is extended due to storms.
• Whaleback Mountain’s only chairlift isclosed all week due to mechanical.
• Sandia Peakworks to revive mothballedChair 2.
• A 2005 Doppelmayr Funifor suffers aserious incident in Italy involving asevered haul rope and cabin colliding into the bottom terminal. The lift was outside operating hours and one operator suffered minor injuries.

• June Mountaincloses for two days due to issues with againgJ1.
• Lovelandproposes replacingLift 7 with a quad.
• Indy Pass plansmore resort additions through the spring and fall.
• One of them is Tenney Mountain, which also looks to build a high speed quad.
• Tenney’sHornet double needs a gearbox rebuild, will beclosed until mid-March.
• Skeetawk, Alaskaseeks state funding to develop electrical infrastructure for a future Lift 2.
• Burke Mountain’s receiver says asale may be near.
• The proposed Burnaby Mountain Gondola in metro Vancouver would include significanttransit oriented development.
• Mt. Seymour, BC removes theBrockton chair from service for anunknown amount of time.
• Manning Park, BCcloses the similarBlue Chair for inspections due to the incident at Mt. Seymour.
• Marble Mountain, Newfoundlandhits the market.
• Chair 8 at Bear Mountain suffers agrip slip incident with passengers.
• Rezoning paves the way for more development at Powder Mountain.
• Leitner to build aseven station gondola in Iraq.
• Poley Mountain, New Brunswickworks to repair itstriple chair.
• Bretton Woodsapplies to build a new lift, Attitash seeks to reduce capacity on the closedFlying Bear.
• Solitude completes amid-winter bullwheel bearing replacement onSunrise.
• Thefirst terminal and towers go up for the winter build Saluda Skyride in South Carolina.
• Mt. Crescent, Iowa rebrands asCrescent Hill.
• Aninside look at operating the largest lift fleet in the country.
• Andone of the smaller ones.
• Mineral Basin at Snowbirdto be closed for a week-ish due to a machanical issue.

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