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One of the Yodelin lifts became the original Tye-Mill at Stevens. Or so it says on their website.

When Yodelin opened, those of us who were die-hard Stevens Pass fanatics hooted at the silly name. Their ad campaign featured a cartoon bavarian in Lederhosen as their mascot. Their tagline was "Sure, we're small... just ski us and we'll grow tall." Yodelin was marketed as a place to buy a lot, build a home, and live on a ski slope. I remember pestering my Dad to buy in, since we could then have a mountain home for the weekends near my favorite resort. Good thing we didn't buy in... there was a tragic avalanche in 1971 that destroyed much of the resort and several home, and resulted in several fatalities.

I'm going to visit my folks in Seattle next month. I might have an old Yodelin trail map stashed away somewhere in the atttic. I'll see if I can dig it out.

Steve
This post has been edited by scrutch2001: 30 January 2004 - 03:57 PM

My understanding is the lifts from Yodelin went into Steven's but one went into storage for Pilchuck, and never installed. Crystal did buy 2 of the lifts from Pilchuck and I believe High Campbell was one of them, and the other was used for spare parts.

Iceberg Ridge and the Green Valley Chair (parts of GV) went to a resort in Wyoming.

Dispositions of Crystal lifts:

C-2 Iceberg Ridge (1962 Riblet double) went to Antelope Butte, WY.
C-3 Green Valley (1963 Riblet Double) went to the scrap yard.
C-5 Campbell Basin (1970 SLI double) went to Blacktail Mountain, MT. The lower part, removed in 1988 for the Midway Shuttle, is dispersed around the mountain as culverts while the unused line machinery was either scrapped or kept for spares, depending upon condition.
C-6 High Campbell (1968 Hall double) was one of two lifts at Yodelin Ski Area (the other one becoming Tye Mill at Stevens Pass). Crystal did not like the Hall drive terminal, and contracted with Riblet to bild an entirely new one when they purchased it in 1978.
C-6 Bullion Basin (1974 Thiokol triple- the confusion will clear in a moment) was located to the northeast of the current base area. It sat unused after 1978, hence the current C-6 designation of the High Campbell lift. (Our old parking lot maps from the early 1990s when I was an attendant showed the parking lot as 'old C-6 lot'.) The lift wasn't torn down until 1983, when it was reinstalled as the current C-7 Gold Hills lift, replacing an old T-bar.
C-9 Rendezvous (1983 CTEC triple) ran exactly where the Forest Queen lift is today.
C-11 Midway Shuttle (1988 Poma fixed quad) was removed for the Chinook Express and sold to Loup Loup Ski Area, where a crew of volunteers rebuilt it in the summer of 1997. They had to buy new tower tubes, though; the current Doppelmayr sixpack uses the original Poma ones.
I've heard that Crystal bought the Pilchuck lifts (both Riblets); what they did with them I haven't been able to find out. Considering Pilchuck ran until at least 1980, and Crystal did not build any Riblet lifts after 1964, they were probably purchased for parts.

C-6 or Bullion Basin was running after 1978, I remember riding it is either 1982 or 1983. I was terrified, because I wasn't that great of a skier and I had no clue as to where the top was. I was told during my employment that C-6 was moved to C-7 Gold Hills where snow was more plentiful.

Does someone have a old trail map of Lake Louise or Sunshine Village ?

Try skimaps.com. I think I remember see one on there a while back when the gondola was still in. I haven't seen one before that though.

NWS, on Jan 30 2004, 11:52 PM, said:

I wonder why the designations were switched in '78, then? That sounds more familiar to me, as I remember seeing a large counterweight hanging over the edge of the parking lot where the lift originally was, and it said C-7 in big bold letters. I'm just repeating a story I had heard when I was first hired. It seems there's several contrasting versions... a mystery we should investigate, perhaps.

Sounds good to me...

This is one resort that I skied a lot when I was younger

Mont-Garceau

Sorry for the french writting but there are no English trail map for this resort

Lake Louise

Back Bowls & Larch Area

Sorry for kind of going off-topic but this is the coolest flash trail map I have seen on before. There are snowboarders that actually ski the trails and ride the lifts up.

http://www.bluemount...er_trailmap.htm

i ran across this the other day too though i didn't notice the skiers. Many countless hours went into that map

One of my friends has an old map of snowbird and i have one from 1996

I'll try and get them up for you.

I have a couple of old DV maps on my old and pretty well destroyed computer, but I'll try to get them up if I can

Check out these old killington maps :---:
http://www.tjdesantis.com/trailmaps/

I have over 100 maps but the oldest one is 96-97. You can ask me if you want to see any.

Here is a good one; a 1960 or so map of squaw. Looking around in the museum i have seen several versions, so i assume during the olympics things were different, that being the siberia chair existed, 1 chair (heron) went up kt-22, red dog extended up the ridge seen and poma used about the same line as exhibition searchlight.

Is that the same jigback tram that is there now? Sorry if this doesn't make sense but I've never been to Squaw.

Hey I was wondering if anyone has some trailmaps of Stratton between 90-95.

I went to stratton in 95 but do not have the map. I was only 4 after all...