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Started by Skidude, Feb 14 2006 08:23 PM

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#1 Skidude

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Posted 14 February 2006 - 08:23 PM

What lifts have you been on that are not used for skiing? My list is:

Eagle's Flight, Paramount's Great America
Skyride, Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk
Skyride, Orange County Fair
Skyfari, San Diego Zoo
Skyride, Sea World San Diego
Tube Tow, Sledz
Magic Carpet and Scenic Chairlift, Alpine Slide at Magic Mountain
Chair 12, Snow Valley

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Posted 14 February 2006 - 08:27 PM

Cabriolet at the Canyons
Fairlift at Salem State Fair
Skyride at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk
Eagle's Flight at Paramount's Great America
The gondola at Dinsney World
The gondola at Dinsneyland.
The gondola at Sterling Vinyards
Blizzard Beach, FL
Silver Mountain Gondola if that counts.
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Posted 14 February 2006 - 08:54 PM

Skyride, Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk
Skyride, Oakland Zoo
Eagle's Flight, Paramounts Great America
Chair 2, Mt Lemmon AZ
Cable Car, Squaw in the summer
Thats all I can remember.
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Posted 15 February 2006 - 04:47 PM

What type of lift is that at mt. Lemmon?

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Posted 15 February 2006 - 06:00 PM

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Posted 15 February 2006 - 06:27 PM

Not to much for me

-Calgary Stampede skyride
-Niagra Spanish Areo Car
-Jasper Tram
-Hell's Gate Tram
-Banff Gondola
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Posted 15 February 2006 - 07:05 PM

Blizzard Beach (Disney World) chairlift
South Florida Fairgrounds triple
Disney World gondola
Lagoon theme park (Utah) chairlift
Cabriolet at The Canyons

There's probably more, but I can't think of them
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Posted 15 February 2006 - 08:34 PM

I believe the lift at mt lemmon is an old heron-poma. I haven't been up there in years.
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Posted 15 February 2006 - 08:35 PM

Snow Mountain Double chair at Waterville Valley
Chairlift n. A transportation system found at most ski areas in which a series of chairs suspended from a cable rapidly conveys anywhere from one to eight skiers from the front of one line to the back of another.

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Posted 17 February 2006 - 01:03 AM

WaterWorld, the one near Rocky Mountain National Park, Morach Crest, Glenwood Springs, SkyCab, Sandia Peak Tram,
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Posted 24 February 2006 - 04:14 PM

Heavenly Gondola (there's no way to ski to it!)
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Posted 24 February 2006 - 07:53 PM

Just 2 for me that i can remember

"Sky Glider" (Iowa state fair lift)
and the Adventure land lift (Des Moines local Amusment park's Lift)

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Posted 24 February 2006 - 10:00 PM

Heavenly Gondola
Eagle's Flight @ great america
Skyride @ Santa Cruz
Skyride @ Oakland Zoo
Squaw cable car
Echo and vista chairs @ northstar (mtn. Biking)
Village Gondola @ Mammoth
Panorama Gondola @ mammoth (summer ops)
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Posted 01 March 2006 - 05:11 AM

The Glenwood Caverns pulse pictured above (Poma)
Heritage Square's alpine slide double (Hall)
The old Von Roll (?) three-seater gondola at the Puyallup Fair
Red Tram at Grouse (skier? non-skier? you make the call!)
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Posted 09 May 2006 - 02:47 PM

There is that one at Bush Gardens, FL. I am not sure what it is called...

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Posted 23 June 2007 - 09:46 PM

This is a skyride at Indiana Beach amusement park. Can anyone identify the maker or vintage?

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Posted 24 June 2007 - 05:10 AM

Last year, I saw many different skyrides on the website, and it was very interesting. I gave the website address to SkiBachelor. I recently looked for it, and I can't find it. SkiBachelor, do you have the address?

I found one picture in the webiste seach, and the website, KMOV.com (St. Louis) said not found. The gonadola fall. Do you know anything about this?

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Posted 24 June 2007 - 07:56 AM

I remember it being skyrides.net, but it appears they closed up shop.
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Posted 24 June 2007 - 09:36 AM

View Postpoloxskier, on Jun 24 2007, 12:46 AM, said:

This is a skyride at Indiana Beach amusement park. Can anyone identify the maker or vintage?

I'm gonna guess that it's an early Borvig, possibly with Hall, or Thiokol chairs. Another idea is that an amusement park rides company built it as a ride.

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Posted 24 June 2007 - 05:12 PM

View Postpoloxskier, on Jun 24 2007, 01:46 AM, said:

This is a skyride at Indiana Beach amusement park. Can anyone identify the maker or vintage?


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