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[iceberg210]

When I was at Bridger Bowl recently helping one of my Dad's customers fix a foundation leak on the main lodge the Head of Mountain Operations came up to see how we were doing. I was able to ask him some questions about the mountain that I didn't know and also that wasn't in our database on Bridger.

Anyway the Platter was intalled in 2000.

There has been two removed lifts the Bridger T-Bar and Pierre's Knob. The Bridger T-Bar ran the same line as the Snowflake Chair. The origanal Pierre's Knob was built in 1978 and removed immediately before the new Pierre's Knob was installed. However the Riblet double's towers were realigned in 1980 to help shorten a particularly long span that made many people uncomfortable among other things.

Both Bridger and Alpine have been shortened in thier life. They both used to run all the way to the bottom and have midstations at thier current end stations. The shortening of the lifts helped make the mountain run more efficiently expecially during busy times.

The other thing I learned was that last year they had 165,000 skier days in 170 days. Well I hope someone appreicates the information.

[SkiBachelor]

Thanks for the information Erik. I presume the original Pierre's Knob lift is the one that's shown in the picture in the new lodge that has wooden towers. It made since to shorten it since you had to ski green runs all the way back and it was pretty flat and don't forget about hiking up in that one area behind the Deer Park lift. But I never knew that there was an old Riblet double that ran where the current Pierre's Knob lift does, I guess I thought it was all new when that area was built.

[Tin Woodsman]

Did you get any info on the likelihoof of their moving ahead with their expansion plans to the North and South? I've seen plans calling for lifts to be strung pretty much to the top of the Ridge. If that's the case, then Bridger becomes a whole new beast. Right now, the bottom half is little more than a flat run out and the best skiing can only be accessed via a 600 vertical foot climb straight up. A lift to the top of the Ridge would create about 1400-1600' of good lift servied instead of the current 800'.

[iceberg210]

I really didn't get much info on the furture of Bridger besides for tthe fact that he said that new lifts may well be in Bridger's future. So if that means a replacement of something, a rope tow or a gondola to the top I have no idea.

[SkiBachelor]

I think a detachable would be nice there, but the old lifts are just too short.

[iceberg210]

The one place though I think a detachable would work is to replace the Virginia City and Deer Park lifts with a HSQ with a mid load and unload by the Deer Park Chalet. Although I don't think it worked as well in Alta as I would have hoped I think in this case it would work very well and help anchor the mountain to a central lift.