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Roo, I'll see your Thunder Chair with Tower Tree Chute and Raise you a Sublett Chair with Alta One Chute;)Quote:
Originally posted by bad_roo
A few more of my personal favourites...
http://www.jacksonhole.com/images/ph...-02/021202.jpg
Thunder Chair, Jackson (just visible above Tower 3 Chute there)
http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic24076.jpg
Here is one that is very personal to me. No longer exists, but a lot of history.
http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic24077.jpg
http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic24078.jpg
http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic24079.jpg
Gotta love this one, too:
http://www.skiinghistory.org/GRAPHICS/Atkinson/At07.jpg
No lift in this one, but just for the sake of stoke, check this one out from the same site:
http://www.skiinghistory.org/GRAPHICS/Atkinson/At06.jpg
More here: http://www.skiinghistory.org/kruck1.html
FKNA!Quote:
Originally posted by The AD
No lift in this one, but just for the sake of stoke, check this one out from the same site:
http://www.skiinghistory.org/GRAPHICS/Atkinson/At06.jpg
Is that Ernie Blake at Taos?
The caption said "Joe Marrilac, Squaw Valley, California 1952"Quote:
Originally posted by teledave
FKNA!
Is that Ernie Blake at Taos?
I liked the siberia chair at Squaw for the altitude induced vertigo-nausea sensations I got at the top! (I'm an altitude whimp)
http://www.rgj.com/news/files/2003/02/08/21907_350.jpg
Sprite
The fucking crasiest ride around.
http://www.southamericaskiguide.com/...a/laslpic1.jpg
http://www.snow-forecast.com/copperm...s/10008/normal
http://www.laslenas.net/gallery/slopes/images/13.jpg
http://www.laslenas.net/gallery/slopes/images/19.jpg
I swear to god Seth Morrison pointed me to my line from the lift in a white out. I didn't realise it was him till later...
I was scared shitless going up there. Mad wind, sketchy chairs and Argentinos digging it out constantly all day.
Thanks, Bullet & AD, I'm at home on dial -up so looking at the pics in that link ain't happenin' until Monday.Quote:
Originally posted by Bullet
Joe Marrilac, Squaw Valley, California 1952
Phil/Gorillo: Marte, definitely on "the list" .
http://www.nevisrange.co.uk/winter/images/BACK1.jpg
And one in Mulletizer's back yard ;)
Some mad toe-pressure-steeze rahtcheer:
http://www.skiinghistory.org/GRAPHICS/Atkinson/At09.jpg
Papa Phunkenstein?
ding ding! marte = the fucking shitQuote:
Originally posted by Phil
The fucking crasiest ride around.
http://www.southamericaskiguide.com/...a/laslpic1.jpg
http://www.snow-forecast.com/copperm...s/10008/normal
http://www.laslenas.net/gallery/slopes/images/13.jpg
http://www.laslenas.net/gallery/slopes/images/19.jpg
the ride up is almost as puckering as the ride down :D
http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic24105.jpg
From a Chilean travel review on http://observer.guardian.co.uk/
SlingShot Lifts
They are the stuff of skiers' nightmares, stopping even the most proficient in their tracks and leaving anyone still coming to terms with the sport quaking in their ski boots. Known as slingshot lifts, they cause a line of jaws to drop open on the slopes as white-faced skiers get a first glimpse of the terrifying sight.
We are talking about the grand-daddy of all button lifts - five in a row zipping up the impossible-looking gradient at an incredible speed. Think 18 miles an hour on a 35 degree angle - for many skiers, including myself, a challenging set of statistics just going downhill. But uphill!
'It's like flying,' says my ski instructor. 'Or waterskiing uphill. Nothing scary about it.'
I watch an experienced snowboarder wipe out going up the slope while the other four people on the lift seem to be having their arms wrenched out of their sockets in the effort to hold on.
He finally gets the nerve to go on the lift:
I stick with the mountain theme, heading off with a Swiss teacher, Heidi. Together, we face my bete noir. Within minutes of me asking whether she thinks I am capable of it, I find myself on the Condor slingshot lift, holding on for grim death, feeling an amazing surge of adrenaline course through my body as we fly up the hill. At the top, I wait obediently as we slip down the slope slightly before let ting go of the lift, one by one, carefully, so as not to upset the balance too much.
A huge grin breaks out on my face. It doesn't matter that there's still so much adrenaline in my body that I wipe out on the descent. Or that any future forays are cut short when Heidi points to the rock face behind the lift down which snow is flowing and tumbling; not a life-threatening avalanche, but enough for the guides to blow their warning whistles. I have survived the slingshot lift. What's more, I've got a taste for powder and skiing in Chile that's going to see me back on the plane next year.
Anyone been on one of these? :eek: Pics?
Sprite
This is one of those explosive lifts. Ya get a real bang out of it. Sorry for the supersized pic but all I could find.
There is a starting gate to cross and all. Ready set, cross the bar, stick between your legs, hold, hold, yeeha !
http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic13362.jpg
so it's basically a poma lift?
Yup, the attack of the deadly poma, keeps the gorbs and slowboarders away from the goods.
its the high speed bungie nut crushing pomaQuote:
Originally posted by tuffy109
so it's basically a poma lift?
Ding Ding is fucknEhRight. Marte kicks so much ass it is ridiculous. And loads of fun when you get stuck hovering between towers 4 & 5... If there is any lift worthy of trumping the JH tram, this is it. Aright beyoatch, see ya in September.Quote:
Originally posted by basom
ding ding! marte = the fucking shit
the ride up is almost as puckering as the ride down :D
http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic24105.jpg
No more guesses on the last one?
Where is this?
http://home.beld.net/~davev/chair.jpg
blue hill?Quote:
Originally posted by DaveTV
No more guesses on the last one?
Where is this?
http://home.beld.net/~davev/chair.jpg
I'm not sure where it is, but they could use this shot to illustrate what is meant by "marginal conditions."
Fernie : white pass quad, with the usuall fernie weather...
http://www.tetongravity.com/usergall...ture%20208.jpg
That's hell, Dave.Quote:
Originally posted by DaveTV
No more guesses on the last one?
Where is this?
Or at least that's what hell looks like.
[edit] and Massachusetts.
I can't say I have skied it but...
http://www.tetongravity.com/usergall...rope%20tow.jpg
Really now Geoff. That's 1/2 mile from company's parking lot. I get to go at lunch.Quote:
Originally posted by Geoff
That's hell, Dave.
Or at least that's what hell looks like.
[edit] and Massachusetts.
PS Hell=mexifornia. Sorry dude. Wouldn't live there for anything ;)
Peak Chair, Whislter
http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic19445.jpg
Lake Louise - Frontside
http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic19455.jpg
Paradise Chair - Lake Louise - Backside
http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic19971.jpg