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Oldest high speed/detachable lift you have ever ridden?


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#1 Smacpats

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Posted 03 February 2018 - 03:32 PM

Oldest High speed chairlift- Kumme, Zermatt. 1983 Garaventa high speed triple.
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Oldest gondola- Gant-Blauherd, Zermatt. 1972 Gianvolla gondola removed 2 years ago.
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Oldest Tram- Old Jackson hole tram
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Oldest high speed quad- Vista Bahn at vail
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Oldest bubble chair (Vista had its bubbles removed before I went to vail)- Aebi, Adleboden Switzerland, 1999 Leitner installation.
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#2 reaperskier

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Posted 03 February 2018 - 03:36 PM

Louis Express Quad - Mount St Louis Moonstone: https://www.youtube....Ptz9SRME&t=120s

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#3 ceo

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Posted 05 February 2018 - 11:37 AM

Oldest "high-speed" lift, and indeed oldest lift, would have to be the original Cannon aerial tramway, opened in 1938.

Oldest detachable is the Sugarbush gondola, opened in 1958. Rode it a bunch of times on a family vacation when I was 6. My memory was that it went up a hill and down again and up another hill; when I finally went there as an adult many years later, I saw that the old liftline did go over a rise and down a little before climbing to the summit.

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Posted 07 February 2018 - 05:36 AM

Vail's old Lions head gondola and Steamboat's old Stagecoach gondola, both installed in 1970.
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#5 Yooper Skier

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Posted 07 February 2018 - 12:03 PM

1964 VonRoll gondola at Minnesota State Fair Grounds. As for high-speeds, Pioneer at Winter Park (Poma), FourRunner (Doppelmayr - the original) at Stowe, and Spirit Express (Leitner/Borvig) at Spirit Mountain. All 1986.

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Posted 19 February 2018 - 11:03 AM

The original Summit triple at Bachelor (1983, removed 1997).
The Puyallup Fair gondola, originally the Seattle World's Fair gondola (1962).
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#7 vons

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Posted 20 February 2018 - 08:34 AM

oldest Gondi: Disneyland Sky Ride 1950s von Roll
oldest HSQ: the Quicksilver lift @ Breckenridge 1981 Doppelmayr quad

#8 skierdude9450

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Posted 08 March 2018 - 10:21 PM

Any of the 4 original HSQs at Vail, (Vista Bahn, Northwoods, Mountaintop, and Game Creek) or Summit Express at Winter Park, all built in 1985.

Oldest gondola for me is Sugar Bowl's Village Gondola 1982 I think
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#9 DonaldMReif

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Posted 14 April 2018 - 03:11 PM

For me, the Pioneer Express and Summit Express at Winter Park.
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