poking around and I thought I'd bump this one up from the depths
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poking around and I thought I'd bump this one up from the depths
I fell in love with the trees on the back of the lake. mmmmm tasty face-shots 5 days after a storm, even during peak holiday season in bluebird skies.
http://skibrighton.com/gallery/uploa...47IMG_0190.JPG
The lift tops out on the ridge to the right of the summit. I have soooooo many good memories of that bootpack and wolverine cirque. Now let me wipe away the drool.
Didn't see one of my personal favorites on here. Lincoln, Chair 22 Mammoth. All sorts of fun on a stormy day or any day for that matter. :D
A deep day last year...stoked
http://ahigherground.net/img/lincoln.jpg
first chair, KT-22. in the maw of the Jan, 2005 'gurge.
http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic32620.jpg
here are my late additions
frontside lift at bohemia (taken 3/23/03)
http://tetongravity.com/forums/attac...tid=3951&stc=1
the 2 person chair on the backside(only runs on weekends)
http://tetongravity.com/forums/attac...tid=3952&stc=1
and the scourge of gapers all across the UP, the t-bar at ripley
http://tetongravity.com/forums/attac...tid=3953&stc=1
the old sugarloaf gondola
http://www.nelsap.org/skihistory/sugarloafgondola.jpg
Is it at Courchevel(sp?)? That looks really familiar from my Trois Vallees trip.Quote:
Originally Posted by skea 457
Lone Peak Tram at Big Sky, base just visible in front of skier
http://bozemandailychronicle.com/art...01pics/cg5.jpg
two 15 person cars...
http://www.bigskyresort.com/images/bs_ch_tram_01.jpg
An East Coast classic:
Wildcat - Tomcat Triple
http://photo.ifeelhappy.com/albums/u...rmal_snow6.jpg
Sunday River - White Heat Quad after it was closed last season (And with fkn deep base)
http://photo.ifeelhappy.com/albums/u...mal_10heat.jpg
Big Spruce @ Stowe:
http://www.chairlift.org/pics/stowe/st20.jpg
Couldn't find a good pic of the Castlerock Double at Sugarbush, but it's on the fun list.
Cannon's old tram
http://www.chairlift.org/pics/ca/ca1.jpg
Aguille Du Midi - Cham
http://mattitude.com/europe_trip_200...m_chamonix.jpg
Seventh Heaven on Blackcomb in July. Can't forget the mini sound-system in the backpack for lift parties!
http://images.snowboard.com/members/...tos/872251.jpg
These are all from Mammy
Chair 23 with G2 in background
http://mattitude.com/adventures/mamm...s/IMG_0802.jpg
Mr and Mrs Barnballs on 22
http://mattitude.com/adventures/mamm...s/IMG_0766.jpg
http://mattitude.com/adventures/mamm...s/IMG_0608.jpg
Mammy 25
http://mattitude.com/adventures/mamm...s/IMG_0794.jpg
Chair Quiver
http://mattitude.com/adventures/mamm...s/IMG_0801.jpg
Early Season Cornice G2
http://mattitude.com/adventures/mamm...s/IMG_0354.jpg
Chair 2
http://mattitude.com/adventures/mamm...s/IMG_0344.jpg
14
http://mattitude.com/adventures/mamm...s/IMG_2675.jpg
Village G
http://mattitude.com/adventures/mamm...s/IMG_0605.jpg
Exactly the wrong side of world. Rugby tow at Broken River (to the right of the Palmer day lodge). The lift is a nutcracker, a high speed rope tow which you hold on to with a clamp so the pulleys don't break your hand. The black thing on the left is the guys hand, he was holding the camera with one hand next to his hip. How to ride a nutcracker and here, expert skiers who are good on T bars and platters will still take several attempts before being able to get all the way up to the top the first time they use this type of lift. But these lifts are the reason there are no stupid gapers at these mountains. The busiest day I have ever seen at Craigieburn there were about 50 people, and to get from the car park to the lifts at BR there is a 1/2 hour hike. These places are the anti-Deer Valley of ski areas.Quote:
Originally Posted by warthog
Really cool thread topic and pictures! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by H-man
But please don’t confuse a chairlift with a “stairway to heaven”.
Stairway implies walking and sitting on a chairlift is anything but.
Magic carpet ride is more appropriate. ;)
Gotta throw in my two bits here.
If you haven't ridden this lift......I suggest you do.
Aiguille du Midi - Chamonix France
http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic26643.jpg
Main tow at Temple Basin.
Whats real fun is digging it out the day after a storm - especially before there's a platform dug at the top.
I'm disappointed no one has mentioned one of my all-time favorites. Another lift from this same mountain has mentioned, but not this little beauty? I only enjoyed a handful of rides on this lovely gondola due to its recent retirement (and my only being 18, started riding it at age 6), but they were all entertaining. The cinder blocks to help prevent blowing in the wind, and at 6 years old I found it entertaining to watch the lift attendant push us to the end of the station and tug the rope...kind of like the car wash. Unfortunately I don't have my own pictures of it but these will have to do. Also included is the gondola from Ischgl, which, being from the East Coast...I was very impressed with (that, and the rest of their modern lifts...not so modern lines :the_finge )
*EDIT: Why don't the pics show up in the thread, I'm an attachment jong :(
my happy place, northwest chair, bachy
http://www.tetongravity.com/usergall...eYA%5B1%5D.jpg
Roca Jack - Portillo, Chile, August 2004
http://www.tetongravity.com/usergall...poma_first.jpg
First, Switzerland
A chairlift that doesn't return?
Quote:
Originally Posted by spanky
Where is that?