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[snoloco]

The South Peak Express at Mountain Creek can be very scary to ride at times. It is not the lift itself, it is the people who use it. I have many times ended up on it with people who do drugs/alcohol, ask weird questions about sex, and many other things. I avoid it like the plague unless the line is short enough to ride it alone, or if I am with friends and we can get the chair to ourselves.

[2milehi]

Razvan, on 25 September 2013 - 09:38 PM, said:

The Soviet Union too.

Yeah some of those Russia lifts look terrifying!

[SkiDaBird]

Never really been on a lift that scared me, but getting dropped off at the top of Little Cloud when the wind is over 60 during a whiteout is really scary. Always wonder why I got on it in the first place at that point...

[snoloco]

Summit Quad at Whiteface: Just after getting on, you go over a creek, where the lift is really high up. If you drop a pole or glove, it's gone forever. The last 3rd of the lift consists of going up what feels like a near vertical wall. Because it's one of the highest elevation lifts in the east, the trees are shorter and the lift is above them, making the lift seem higher off the ground that it actually is. It's also very exposed to wind at that point, so the chair can swing a lot.

The Lookout Triple to looker's right is lower to the ground and more protected from the wind, even though it goes almost as high up. The Little Whiteface Double is also a bit of a scary one because for the top half of the route, you're up over the low side of a double fall line, meaning the lift is higher up than it would otherwise be.

[Sacdelic_Skier]

black mountain triple. there's a double tower that's two very large pylons stacked. it's sketch

[RibStaThiok]

Black Mountain Maine, or Black Mountain New Hampshire?

[Sacdelic_Skier]

maine

[NHskier13]

Coming over a ridge with wind shoving the chair forwards and the safety bar up. I cling for dear life to the back of the seats on those days, haha.

[Smacpats]

Hands down Oak Street @ Telluride before the safety bars were installed. 40 feet above the ground, shady double chairlift from 70s, pointy looking rocks below you. Absolutely terrifying.