Stoke of the Week: Ski Lifts

**laseranimal** · 12-14-2004, 01:20 PM

poking around and I thought I'd bump this one up from the depths

**AfroMullet** · 01-24-2005, 08:25 PM

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.

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.

**Pura Vida** · 01-24-2005, 11:01 PM

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.

A deep day last year...stoked

**FreakofSnow** · 01-25-2005, 12:02 AM

Bridger lift

**gonzo** · 01-25-2005, 12:18 AM

first chair, KT-22. in the maw of the Jan, 2005 'gurge.

**rip** · 01-25-2005, 01:01 AM

here are my late additions

frontside lift at bohemia (taken 3/23/03)

the 2 person chair on the backside(only runs on weekends)

and the scourge of gapers all across the UP, the t-bar at ripley

**skea 457** · 01-25-2005, 01:13 AM

**davey** · 01-25-2005, 01:22 AM

the old sugarloaf gondola

**warthog** · 01-25-2005, 08:34 AM

Originally Posted by skea 457

Is it at Courchevel(sp?)? That looks really familiar from my Trois Vallees trip.

**baseWeldr** · 01-25-2005, 08:52 AM

Lone Peak Tram at Big Sky, base just visible in front of skier

two 15 person cars...

**Free Range Lobster** · 01-25-2005, 08:54 AM

An East Coast classic:

Wildcat - Tomcat Triple

Sunday River - White Heat Quad after it was closed last season (And with fkn deep base)

**SkiJunky05** · 01-25-2005, 09:43 AM

Big Spruce @ Stowe:

Couldn't find a good pic of the Castlerock Double at Sugarbush, but it's on the fun list.

Cannon's old tram

**mattitude** · 01-25-2005, 12:50 PM

Aguille Du Midi - Cham

**bigtrubs** · 01-25-2005, 01:03 PM

Seventh Heaven on Blackcomb in July. Can't forget the mini sound-system in the backpack for lift parties!

**mattitude** · 01-25-2005, 01:07 PM

These are all from Mammy

Chair 23 with G2 in background

Mr and Mrs Barnballs on 22

Mammy 25

Chair Quiver

Early Season Cornice G2

Chair 2

14

Village G

**skea 457** · 01-25-2005, 03:18 PM

Originally Posted by warthog

Is it at Courchevel(sp?)? That looks really familiar from my Trois Vallees trip.

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.

**bcrider** · 01-25-2005, 03:24 PM

Originally Posted by H-man

Ski Lifts, sometimes known as the stairway to heaven.

Really cool thread topic and pictures!

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.

**p.blz** · 01-26-2005, 03:19 PM

Gotta throw in my two bits here.

If you haven't ridden this lift......I suggest you do.

Aiguille du Midi - Chamonix France

**cj001f** · 01-26-2005, 03:28 PM

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.

**Nate Dogg** · 01-26-2005, 03:51 PM

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

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*EDIT: Why don't the pics show up in the thread, I'm an attachment jong