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What is the steepest lift that you have ever been on?

Upper Bowl Chairlift at Ski Bowl. Riblet Double, upgraded in like 97 or so. One kid died falling off because it was so high off the ground in one spot.



These towers fixed the problem.


Another shot of the lift line.

The former Inferno at Grouse Mountain, by and far. Becides being really steep, it also was quite decrepit, making for one heck of a ride, especially if the lift stopped while you were riding it....

7th Heaven at Steven Pass can be quite hairy, also the old Campbell's Basin lift at Crystal when it used to climb K-2 Face. That was pretty steep.

Inferno chair on Grouse :D

9990 @ The Canyons, the end part, after the two towers of depression sheaves, it takes like 5 breakover towers to get out of it. This is a 1998 CTEC HSQ

I second 7th Heaven @ Stevens. You know it's steep when it has seven towers and five of them are in a fan configuration right bofore the top ramp (the other two are depression towers at the very bottom)
One section of Chair 6 @Baker is pretty steep as well- Tower 4 leans at a 47-degree angle and Tower 5 leans at 40. You drop something from the towerhead on those two and it lands well downhill of the towerbase.

i ahve been on a lot of steep lifts and i can't remember which one is the steepest. But @ wp i would say Ironhorse.

For surface lifts i vote the Keifer T-bar @ marmot
the lift starts out with more than 12 on the first tower and climbs a good 60 meters at what seems to be about 35-40 degrees before leveling off somewhat and climbing the rest of the way up a Black run

Probably the Goat's Eye Express @ Sunshine
For surface lift, I think it's the Summit Platter @ L.L.

I'm going to stick with Motherlode for steepest... same idea 5 breakovers, and two depressions at the bottom. Highest would be the granite chair which was over 100 feet in the air at one point, and it was a HUGE span. If you stopped in that span, you went 20 feet down, and then 30 up.

Here's the steep part of our t-bar

thats comparable to the flattest part of marmots

steepest would be something like J1 at june (5 breakovers) or maybe 23 at mammoth. Red Dog goes really high and it would suck to have to download the chair.

I remember the Granite Chair, Allan. That big span you talked about went right over Papoose Bowl before the final big push to the top, if I'm recalling things correctly. Another steep lift is on a section of the Knob Chair at Marmot. One of the lifts towers is actually so tall that a normal-length tower is bolted onto the top of another one of thicker diameter (reminds me of looking down at a Saturn V rocket). I don't know if the drop is as precipitous as Granite's but it's pretty close.

Olympic Lady at Squaw is pretty steep as well

altaskier - you've rememberd correctly :)

your right altaskier that section of the Knob is really tall. after that tower there is a large distance between towers where the chair climbs over a bowl and reaches over 100 feet off the ground. I heard a story once that a guy was seriously hurt or killed when he skiied right into that tower

The steepest lift I ever rode is the A triple @ Mont Saint-Bruno . 2 breakovers.
The steepest lift I ever saw is a Riblet CP double @ June (I think). 7 breakovers.

The steepest surface I rode is the E-F double T-Bar @ Stoneham, and the steepest I know is the corde-raide T-Bar @ Mont Sainte-Anne.

heres a picture of the knob chair it maintains this angle up it entire line but like described before reaches sickening heights.