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[Kicking Horse]

What was the slowest chair that u have ever been on....

[Bill]

Discovery at Crystal Mountain. Given its a beginner chair....

[Kicking Horse]

oh and no beginner chairs.....

[Bill]

High Campbell @ Crystal Mountain... its slow... but not a very long chair ride either.

[Allan]

Silverlode... 344 fpm (1.75m/s). Wait... I lied the Red chair running on Auxiliary - 45 minute ride.

[Allan]

BTW - the APU speed for Red is about 88 FPM (.45 m/s).

[SkiBachelor]

Ouch...I guess if you ever do replace your Yan triples, you should replace Red with one. But again, Red is a unique lift.

[Allan]

Red chair will probably be replaced with a new lift of the same capacity eventually... It is unique, maybe I can convince the powers that be to do an eskimo style video with it :)

[edmontonguy]

Probably was the Knob Chair@Marmot the usualy speedy ride was slowed to about 1m/s due to high winds

[liftmech]

I'd have to say old chair 5 at Crystal (when it was full-length.) I know chair 6 is probably slower, but chair 5 ran in the shadow until about 500 feet from the top. It was about 7500 feet long, if I remember right, and you would absolutely freeze on the way up.

[Eric]

Snowdon triple @ Killington is pretty slow

Also, I know that olympic chair at whistler is very slow :---:

[Kicking Horse]

the slowest chair that i have ever been on is West End Double @ powderhorn. it is a bout a 24 min ride. :)

[hyak.net]

I believe Thunderbird was the slowest chair at Snoqualmie Pass so that must have been the slowest for me....even though Silver Fir sure seems to run like a dead horse.

[edmontonguy]

paradise @ LLouise is pretty slow a 15 minute ride
the old Wheeler @ sunshine was romered to be slow too
don't know if this counts but the old gondi @ sunshine was a 20 minute ride but it was fairly long

[Bill]

Yes, the old Chair 5 at Crystal (Campbell's Basin) was in the shadow and you froze your ass off everytime you rode it. And yep the 7500' length didn't help matters any.

[Eric]

Edmontonguy, What are you talking about !!!

The Paradise chair at LL is not slow at all. The resort says that it's 15 minutes long but it takes about 8 minutes

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[Skidude]

Hermo's Express at mammoth runs about 350fpm. It is the slowest chair I have been on.

[vancouverguy]

I have to agree with the Olympic Chair, but it's a beginner lift.

[Kicking Horse]

no beginner chairs they are slow aways

[edmontonguy]

dunno but when i was there it was running slower