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[Lift Kid]

What is the slowest Fixed Grip Chair that you have ridden on? If you have a picture or any Info about the lift like a Manufacturer or where the chair is locate that would be great!!!

Mine is The Miner Double Chair at Buck Hill in Minnesota
I think it Might be a miner Denver Relocation but I am unable to find any real info about it.

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[iceberg210]

I remember an old thread like this a while back when I first joined. Man its been a while...

Anyway last time I nominated Majestic at Brighton when it was an old Riblet however I'll change that nomination to a lift that still exists to Mid Gad at snowbird due to the fact that it takes forever due to all the people falling getting on and off the chair even though it isn't a beginner chair technically or at least not in the same way that Chickidee is. Also Apex at Solitude ussually isn't run to fast although Moonbeam II took the title at that resort until this year when the old Thiokal was removed in favour of a CTEC FGQ. However note that I'm only nominating lifts I have myself ridden.

I think that in the old thread Alan said that the old Red lift at his mountain took 45 minutes to get up on auxuillary and had an insanely slow line speed (obviously) but I'm sure he could tell us more about it.

[Lift Kid]

I think I read about the Red Chair a While Back. 45 minutes would make me freak out!!!

[Allan]

I think that was my Red chair - 45 minutes on evac drive. 8 normal.

[Aussierob]

Magic chair at Blackcomb does 1.4 m/s. You can nearly walk up hill faster.

[floridaskier]

I nominate the Homestake quad at DV. It slows down pretty often for all the little kids getting on and off, and even when it's running normally it's really slow. Homestake used to be a Yan triple chair (original 1981 DV lift) but it was replaced in 1999 with a CTEC fixed quad. Crown Point (a Yan triple) is a much better way to get back.

I would guess most of the slowest lifts are fixed quads

[iceberg210]

Yep Alan that's your Red. BTW do you remember what the speed of the Red chair is on EVAC? I looked in the depths of the fourms but couldn't find the answer although I remember you telling us at one point.

[Allan]

It's somewhere in the neighbourhood of 0.4 m/s.

[coskibum]

everytime this thread resurfaces i always post the same lift. Chair #2 at Loveland. Sometimes I feel I could walk faster up the slopes. It also gets very windy at the top.

[floridaskier]

I just noticed for the first time that the backrests say YAN on them

[iceberg210]

A couple lifts at Brianhead have the YAN backrests too. He really liked advertisement didn't he just like the Y tower heads.

[mtbphoto]

This summer I went to deervalley, the lift was very slow, I forget which one it was, but I think I could of walked faster than the lift

[SkiBachelor]

If you went in the summer, only two lifts are open. Silver Lake Express and Sterling.

[pete643]

iceberg210, on Dec 29 2005, 08:08 AM, said:

He really liked advertisement didn't he just like the Y tower heads.

The Y tower heads actually look more like Martini glasses to me.

[floridaskier]

mtbphoto, on Jan 4 2006, 10:22 PM, said:

This summer I went to deervalley, the lift was very slow, I forget which one it was, but I think I could of walked faster than the lift

That would have been Sterling, a 1983 Yan triple. They run it slower in the summer, and it's not a whole lot faster in the winter, but in the winter there's two other high speed quads that go to the same spot. On the subject of slow summer lifts, the Payday six pack at PCMR is run really slow. Its so that you can get off at the midstation (the chairs don't detach). Any other mountains use a high speed six pack for summer operations?

[SkiBachelor]

Willamette Pass converts theirs over to a gondola if that counts? Maybe Jiminy Peak operates its in the summer too.

[Snoqualmie guy]

Mine is Buttercup double (YAN) at Mt. Hood Meadows. The lift is only about a hundred, if that, yards and it took 5 minutes with no stops.

This post has been edited by Snoqualmie guy: 08 June 2007 - 09:05 PM

[EagleAce]

Chair 6 (a Riblet) at Dodge Ridge. Stops constantly! Our double Yan, Bruin, is a more constant speed.

This post has been edited by EagleAce: 08 June 2007 - 09:10 PM

[Skiing#1]

I first learned how to ski in 1975, and I first rode Mary Riblet Lift at Brighton (it was replaced Crest Express now). Anyway, I rode most Riblet lifts at Alta, Snowbird, Park City, Park West (Now it is The Canyons), Sundance and Brighton. Some areas were small. How I felt like that??? It was normal, no patience and enjoyed.

Now there are high speed lifts are not the same as old lifts. Some resorts added areas or trails to be very large. I know the people like high speed lifts better like I do, and you, too.

How image how you feel you used old typewriter? Felt like normal until today we use computer, it is easy and fast than old non-electricity typewriter. No one wants old non-electricty typewriter and old lifts LOL.

At Park City, durning the summer, the Payday Lift is very slow due the people unload at the mid-station. I rode from the bottom to the top for fun. It took about 20 minutes. I wish they would have mid-station detach and re-detach, it would be fast and nice. That picture looks like. (I borrow that picture to show, is that ok?)

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I remember I was little girl, there was old TV, black and white and only 3 channels. No remote control. Also no mircovwave oven, no video camera, no computer, no Ipod, no video games, big size film camera (no digial cameras). Wow everything had been changing, much better, much easier, much faster. High speed lifts are much better than old lifts smile.

I wonder in the future, what a new lift will be looking like than the high speed lift?

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[jasdmd0]

Sunbrook Quad (C-tec) at Mt Snow. Listed at 400ft/min, seems more like 40 ft/min most days MS is trying to get the permit approval from Vt tramway board to remove some chairs so they can up the line speed until it will hopefully be replaced with a HSQ by the new owners in a couple of years