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Skier, on 02 March 2010 - 07:36 PM, said:

I could see some ski areas in the states doing this.

Skier, on 02 March 2010 - 07:36 PM, said:

We could then start lifts in places once thought impossible to start them in!

Storm Peak Express:









Burgess Creek:


Four Points:


Christie Peak Express:


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Christie III:

This was posted on Flickr tagged with France and Windstorm

Black triple at Magic. Anybody know why it is so unique?

It's a Pholig lift with Yan chairs?

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I love vintage pictures. This is White Pass in 1964.

I want snow years like that! Any snow year that makes a chairlift a surface lift is a good year.

Great pic!

Skier, on 13 March 2010 - 07:30 PM, said:

W-i-N-D-Y!

Also the only poehlig lift built in the US

Some pictures of my local abandoned ski area (skyline) that I shot yesterday.


One of the old rope tows. The rope has fallen off of the drive wheel.


The drive for the above rope tow. Hard to believe this thing was functional just a few years ago. Notice the use of sheave liners.


Another discombobulated rope tow. The rope of this one was fairly new and was probably only used for one season before the area closed. This tow served the most popular terrain on the hill. It is a shame to see it in such bad shape.


The chairlift is still in pretty good shape yet.


The worlds most simple chairlift controls. Two buttons: start and stop.

How much vertical is the ski area? The lift looks to be over 1000 feet long.

PS. Nice Weimaraner, I have two.

SkiBachelor, on 20 August 2010 - 08:51 PM, said:

I am not exactly sure in the stats for this ski area but I can say that it does not have much vert. However the area that the chairlift serves is pretty drawn out so the lift is pretty long for such a small hill.

Id say Skyline is about 180-200'. The Hall is um.... Steel.

Thought this was a cool picture

I was in Vail yesterday and got some good photos of many of the lifts, including the High Noon Express lift (which is due to open by mid-December):

Orient Express:









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Sourdough Express (foreground), Teacup Express and Sun Up lifts (background)


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Avanti Express:




Mountaintop Express:


Skyline Express:
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The High Noon Express lift is almost complete. The chairs still need to be added on, but otherwise, it's complete (from what I saw).

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High Noon Express lift tower in foreground. In the background, the Skyline Express and Earl's Express lifts in Blue Sky Basin.

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The lift tower, more focused.

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A shot of the upper terminal (apologies for the fact that this doesn't show all of the terminal, but I was taking this photo from the deck at Buffalo's)

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A better shot. A little extra note is that when getting off the Northwoods Express lift, I could see the lift grips.

Other misc. photos:

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The old Ski Team lift at Park City. Only the towers remain, no top or base terminals.

That's probably better, it was sad to see the Ski Team terminals all boarded up. I wonder if someone bought it

Are the sheave assemblies still up? I can't see from the pics? It looks like the sheave trains might be there, but not the sheaves themselves... Sorry not as good of eyes as most I'm guessing....

Neat pic, sad to see it go, always a favorite of mine at PCMR.

iceberg210, on 02 December 2010 - 12:58 PM, said:

The sheaves are still on. Always liked the old days when the base terminal shared a tower with the old Payday L/E triple.