• 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.

• New York lost ski area Big Tupperto be auctioned this fall.
• Partially lost Ski Chantecler, Quebec gainsnew, local ownership.
• Big Sky constructs astriking glass enclosure over theLone Peak Tram‘s bottom terminal.
• Red Lodge sells formerAlta Sunnyside chairs.
• Bluewoodseeks Forest Service approval for a base to summit detachable.
• Unspecifiedimprovements are coming to recently reopened Sandia Peak Ski Area.
• Fatzeracquires Rigging Specialties of Canada.
• Thefirst Leitner-Poma bubble chairs in Canada land at Sunshine Village.
• Hearthe inside story of how the Yellowstone Club supports a $100+ million annual operating budget and 20 lifts with only 70,000 skier visits.
• Swiss media report Vail Resorts may bein talks to buy Laax.

Bluewood Mountain Resort will build its first high speed lift in 2025, replacing the agingSkyline Express. The outgoing Borvig triple has served as Bluewood’s primary lift since 1978. “We couldn’t be more excited about the purchase of a high-speed quad for Bluewood,” Said Buck Lewis, Vice President and spokesperson for Bluewood’s ownership group. “This new chair will greatly decrease seat time and increase ride time on the hill, providing a much more enjoyable day on the mountain. This is a fantastic milestone for our resort and community.” As part of the project, Bluewood also intends to install a snowmaking system at the base of the mountain to improve early season coverage.

Bluewood says it’s under contract for the new lift though a manufacturer was not specified. A rendering suggests the lift may be a pre-owned 1990s Doppelmayr model out of Europe. A number of mid-sized resorts including Mission Ridge, Washington; Castle Mountain, Alberta and Pleasant Mountain, Maine have recently opted to install used detachable quads due to the rising costs of new equipment. Bluewood expects to break ground next April and become Washington State’s seventh ski area with a detachable for the 2025-26 ski season.

• MND postsa replay of its Orizon product launch at Mountain Planet.
• Doppelmayr andPoma release their annual yearbooks.
• Poma launches anopen air gondola concept where passengers will stand harnessed.
• Doppelmayr wins a$115 million contract to build a 3S and 10 passenger gondola in Chamonix.
• Okanagan Gondolareceives final approval for construction near Kelowna, BC.
• The Highlands, Michigan will auctionchairs for charity.
• Turkeyarrests multiple people over last week’sfatal gondola incident.
• Jackson Holesays goodbye to Sublette.
• Opposition emerges to Deer Valley’s proposed Lift 7.
• Quebec Mountain Resorts Company, owner of Mont Grand-Fonds and Mont Lac-Vert,offers to buy Mont-Sainte-Anne and Stoneham from Resorts of the Canadian Rockies, says it would invest tens of millions in new lifts and snowmaking.
• Vail Resorts reportsskier visits were down 7.8 percent this season but revenue was up. Same story for 24-25 season pass sales with units pacing down but revenue up.
• Bluewood, Washingtonlooks to replaceSkyline with a detachable quad.

• Oak Mountain retires itslast T-Bar, which may live on in Vermont.
• Nitehawkstill doesn’t know how it will replace a chairlift destroyed by ground movementone year ago.
• KSL Resorts, owner of Camelback, willmanage and invest in nearby Blue Mountain.
• Aconstruction update from Great Bear.
• A companyunder fire for a bridge collapse which killed 26 people in Mexico City also oversees two Cablebús gondola lines.
• Poma inaugurates anew urban gondola in Belgium.
• Preliminary indications from theMarch incident at Camelback point toward a dynamic event involving speed changes.
• Bridal Veil Mountain Resort will hold a public information sessionvia Zoom on Wednesday, May 19th at 7:00 pm. There’s also a newvideo tour of the proposed ski resort.
• Austin looks attourist-focused gondola transportation.
• Steamboat Springs considersgondola transit.
• Sunridgedisassembles itsYellow T-Bar.
• Howelsen Hill lift construction gets off to an exciting start as workersaccidentally start a fire.
• Bluewood plans to upgrade or replaceSkyline Express andbuild a lift servicing 200 acres of new terrain in the next three years.
• Poma’s exciting urban 3S project in Franceenters the home stretch.
• Work gets underway on the Squaw-Alpine gondola.

• The European Union will pay French ski operatorsup to 49 percent of lost revenue from this winter.
• Ober Gatlinburg’stram closesfor two months for track rope and drive replacement projects totaling $4.5 million.
• Bluewood’s general managerexplains why fixing a43 year old lift still makes sense for the mountain vs. buying a new one.
• The Burke Mountain and Jay Peak receiver says in a court filing the mountains are “desperately in need of liquidity” while battling financial services giant Raymond James.
• Whiteface issues arequest for proposals to replace theBear double with a fixed grip quad starting lower in the base area.
• Kelly Canyon’s new Skytrac will be a triplereaching 600 feet beyond the top of Chair 2.
• With one Doppelmayr gondola finished but never opened to the public and another partially complete, Icy Strait Pointremoves all booking availability until April of 2022.
• Skiland performs arope evacuation of thenorthernmost chairlift in the Americas.
• The National Ski Areas Association updates itslift safety fact sheet.
• Mission Ridge isn’t done with On the Way Up just yet!Episode 18 explores the parking system and more.
• At aleadership forum in Park City, Alterra CEO Rusty Gregory says his company will invest $200 million on capital improvements this year and plans to build the Squaw-Alpine gondola.
• We also learned Deer Valley isin talks with Mayflower Mountain Resort about shared access.
• Rustynext joined the Storm Skiing Podcast, confirming the Ikon Pass will add at least one new resort for 21-22.
• Vail Resorts slashes Epic Passprices by 20 percent.
• Developers say the Moosehead Mountain project is “moving fast” with a lift to be ordered as soon as May for completion late this year.
• Two more days until Snow King’sSummit double stops for good to make way for a gondola, though the Forest Service’s Record of Decision hasnot been signed and litigation looms.
• Pennsylvania’s Department of Labor and Industry confirms it’s investigating last weekend’schair fall at Camelback but does not expect to make the report public.

• The Forest Services releases itsEnvironmental Assessment for a modified Purgatory Ice Creek expansion and seeks public comments.
• Bluewood closes for a weekend due todrive line issues with theSkyline Express triple (now back open).
• For the first time in 15 years, The Summit at Snoqualmiesends a cat to the top of Alpental to clear snow from theEdelweiss lift line and top terminal.
• A Canadian resort trainsa very good dog to catch and hold Ts for skiers.
• One of only two chairlift operations in Kentuckygoes up for sale (asking price $750,000).
• Aspen Snowmass visitationfalls significantly.
• Anotherchairlift fall video, this time from China.
• Also in China, Poma nears completion ofa world first: three interconnected 3S gondolas.
• There was a seriousgrip slip incident at Snowstar, Illinois a few weeks ago.
• A company called Towpro tries breaking into the surface lift business with alow cost rope tow.
• Ski Area Management and Leitner-Poma launcha contest to recognize top lift maintenance teams.
• Arapahoe Basin willcontinue 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 announcesDakota will remainclosed for the remainder of the 20-21 season due to “mechanical challenges.”
• Warner Brothersabandons plans to build a Hollywood gondola, opting to focus on its core business.
• A wildRed Bull video features an athlete sliding down a six pack’s haul rope under a parachute.
• A maintenance worker is injured when thechair he was riding falls from a Bartholet lift in Luxembourg.

• Gould Academy sellsthe naming rights to itsT-Bar at Sunday River to Alera Group, an employee benefits firm.
• Ski Bluewood’s former platter liftcan be yours for $19,000.
• To celebrate new carpool and transit initiatives, Crystal Mountain debuts agreen gondola cabin.
• Does the public have the right to know what individual ski resorts pay the federal government for use of public lands?  Vail Resorts and the National Ski Areas Associationargue no.
• TheNew York Timesvisits Woodward Park City in its first week of operation.
• Sun Valley and Snowbasinprepare for their first peak period after switching from Mountain Collective to Epic.
• The Saddleback dealwon’t close on Monday as scheduled but hopefully sometime in January.
• A religious group wantsto relaunch thelong-abandoned Moab Scenic Tram.
• The Meier familyassumes full ownership of Greek Peak and Toggenburg Mountain in New York.
• Colorado Ski Country USA launches a chairlift safetyvideo series.
• Thelatest Wir Magazine highlights Bromont’sbig combination lift, the history of Doppelmayr in Canada and new scale models from Jägerndorfer.

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• Vail Resortsnet income rises 41.5% over last year’s third quarter with Epic season pass sales up 12 percent in units and 19 percent in dollars through May 29th.
• Thenew Lift One will likely be put to Aspen voters in a winter 2019special election rather than the November general election.
• The Western Idaho State Fair plans to debuta chairlift for the first time in August – apparently a used Riblet of unknown origin.
• An urban gondola proposal in Ogden, Utah is back.
• Agreat writeup about Heron’s early days answers why Aspen Skiing Company switched from Colorado’s homegrown lift company to Riblet.
• Now’s your chance to enter to win one of Arapahoe Basin’s retiredNorway chairs.
• Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows and the Sierra Clubsign an agreement for the resort to abandon California Express Alternative 2 in exchange for the group withholding legal action againstalternatives 3 and 4.
• The Seattle suburb of Kirkland looks toa possible aerial lift to connect its city center with an upcoming bus rapid transit station.
• Vail Resorts CEO Rob Katz and Whistler Blackcomb COO Pete Sonntag do awide ranging interview with the local newspaper after a challenging year and a half.
• Tower 6 of Howelsen Hill’schairlift  is on the move for at least the third time as city leaders grapple withwhether to fix it.
• Beartooth Basin, the only summer ski resort in the United States,opens for the season as everyone else closes.  An experiment is also underway torun the lifts with biodiesel.
• The Olympic Regional Development Authority proposes a new chairlift for its Lake Placid ski jumping venue.
• AnotherBorvig surface lift bites the dust infavor of carpets.
• Berkshire Bank says the Hermitage Club no longer has the right to restructure and arguesreceivership should proceed.  One Hermitage property is scheduled to be auctionedon June 25th.
• A decision not to create an opportunity zone in Rangeley, Maine becomes yet another reason Saddleback is going nowhere fast.
• The man accused of lying about spending a night on a Gore Mountain chairlift says he is innocent andmay sue the State of New York.