Best lift or tram in the world

**goldenboy** · 09-20-2005, 06:32 PM

After everybody getting back and raving about Las Lenas' Marte lift (myself included), I started wondering just where I would place the Marte in my own personal best lift list. So, of the places I've been, here's my top 5:

1-Auguille du Midi, Chamonix
2-Marte, Las Lenas
3-Glacier chair, Blackcomb
4-Jackson Tram
5-Grand Montets top tram, Chamonix

I want to know what's better, so that I may go there this year.

**MOHSHSIHd** · 09-20-2005, 06:33 PM

Molly Hogan is the SICKEST BY FAR

**Playa** · 09-20-2005, 06:40 PM

wherever Tanner is

word

**seldon** · 09-20-2005, 06:49 PM

1- Germania - RIP.
2- Jackson Hole Tram - RIP.
3- Sublette.
4- 10 at the weed.
5- This gondie thingy at verbier.

why does it have to be that my top two are gone

**truth** · 09-20-2005, 06:50 PM

top 5 without a doubt

**funkendrenchman** · 09-20-2005, 06:52 PM

1. Aguille du Midi - I would venture to say that this is the best in world.
2. Jackson Tram
3. John Paul - Snowbasin - Because it is never crowded and accesses tons of constant side-country vert
4. Snowbird tram despite being crowded.
5. Garbonzo Express - summer
6. Whatever number the Poma is that goes to Mongolia Bowls. (seriously) And actually even better is that chair that gets you close to that Poma.

That's all I could come up... i suck at this.

**AfroMullet** · 09-20-2005, 06:57 PM

That I've ridden (not many)

Germania, Snowbird Tram, John Paul

**enlosandes** · 09-20-2005, 06:58 PM

Goldenboy, glad you got to sample the mighty Marte! Put KT on your list for power laps. When the snow is good and the crowds are down, you can do 6 laps an hour for 10,500', power skiing at its finest!

**Think Snow!** · 09-20-2005, 07:01 PM

The Tram at Cloudmont, AL rules!!!!!!!!

http://www.cloudmont.com/

"Skiing
We have two one-thousand foot, beginner-intermediate slopes. Two "TRAMS" take skiers to the top of the slopes that have an elevation of 1,800 feet and a vertical rise of 150 feet."

**Superstar Punani** · 09-20-2005, 07:07 PM

1) The 13,000 ft Aiguille du Midi with the highest lift serviced skiing in the world.
2) Titlis. huh-huh
3) Bird bird bird. The bird that's the word.
4) 10
5) KT-22 on a storm day...when all of the Tahoe roads are crippled and no one can get into Squaw...and you're staying at the now-defunct Hostel at Squaw Valley and skiing 4 foot of KT powder with less than a fifty people and getting untracked all day for 4 straight days

**PacRimRider1** · 09-20-2005, 07:13 PM

What was everyone's opinion on Collins? Personally, I thought it was a damn good lift (mid-mountain loading from Watson's @ opening didn't hurt) but I never skied Germania so I have no frame of reference. I never waited more than 15 minutes riding the swingin singles line and lift time was about 7.5.

**Game Over** · 09-20-2005, 07:18 PM

Im going to go way out on a limb here and say that the Summit lift at Batchelor is a pretty fucking rad lift when you take in account the amount of terrain it gets you too with the total lack of crowds. Not the best by far but a damn good lift.

**enlosandes** · 09-20-2005, 07:22 PM

Summit at Bachelor would be good if the mountain was turned on it's side to add steepness!

**mattitude** · 09-20-2005, 07:27 PM

Auguille du Midi

**ridefree** · 09-20-2005, 07:28 PM

My vote for 10. or even 3 on a good day.
OK,OK Augi d Midi.

**enlosandes** · 09-20-2005, 07:32 PM

No question the Aquille is the baddest lift on the planet. Theterrain it accesses is scary! And the verticl rise is second to none. Especially the 2nd tram with no towers!

**ill-advised strategy** · 09-20-2005, 07:46 PM

somebody needs to speak up for chair 2 @ Taos

**addict** · 09-20-2005, 07:48 PM

I 2nd Truth. That La Grave lift is a rockstar. Totally rad. Especially when it stops over the big upper bowl and that crazy black dog that lurks on the mountain just barks and barks at it from, like, 300ft below for no reason.

**nesta** · 09-20-2005, 08:00 PM

For sure the Aigiulle du Midi but 3 in BC worth mentioning: Peak Chair Whistler
Glacier Blackcomb and Gondola at Kicking Horse.

**Telenater** · 09-20-2005, 08:06 PM

The best lines I've skied have almost all been following a ride on the fuzzy lift.

**f2f** · 09-20-2005, 08:14 PM

Originally Posted by YetiMan

somebody needs to speak up for chair 2 @ Taos

i saw somebody fall more than 30ft to the ground from that chair while trying to catch a pole he just dropped. i'd say that's hardcore

**gravitylover** · 09-20-2005, 08:30 PM

The best lifts I've been on are the ones that take me up. It's even better if it's a lift on a good mtn.

**verbier61** · 09-21-2005, 03:53 AM

I LOVE the aguille de midi, but the klein matterhorn (petit cervin) in zermatt is a serious contender. It' a bit higher than the midi (actually the highest in europe, more than 3900 while the midi is 3842), and from there you can see some 24 (if I remember well, but it's around there) peaks over 4000 m. The list includes beauties like the matterhorn, all the monte rosa series (breithorn, castor and pollux, lyskamm, dufour etc...), dent d'herens, dent blanche, zinalrothorn, etc etc etc. The area you can ski from there is hudge, including the mytical schwartzkop (black door) which really might compete with the vallee blanche. Definitely less vertical than the aguille de midi arete, though. This summer I posted a crampon tour around there here

**subtle plague** · 09-21-2005, 03:58 AM

la grave.
engelberg stand/titlis.
the usual cham suspects.
and this one: built in the 1950s and when i was there they had to stop it because some parts fell of