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[poloxskier]

This was a picture that I found as a post card on ebay and is titled as the Bell Mountain lift, I assume that this lift ran the same line as the current Riblet/Poma lift. I am unsure if this is the same one you are referencing as I am unaware of the lift numbers. If I am correct in assuming chair 3 ran the line from the top of F.I.S. to the top of Ajax but all the pictures I have seen of that lift show it as a Riblet.

This post has been edited by poloxskier: 24 March 2006 - 10:17 PM

[skiersage]

Here are the chair numbers as far as I know:
-Chair 1 was the former Heron single chair that is now where shadow mountain is.
-Chair 1a is the current shadow mountain SLI Double.
-Chair 2 never made it to the point of having a name but it ran from the top of F.I.S. and was a riblet double.
-Chair 3 has always been where the current ajax express is now to my knowledge. It was a Heron, then a Riblet, Then a Poma HSQ, and now a Leitner Poma HSQ.
-Chair 4 I am unsure of but I imagine it was the little nell lift seeing as though bell mountain is chair 5.
-Chair 5 is bell mountain
-Chair 6 was the F.I.S. Riblet double.
-I am not sure what number the ruthies lift was but I am sure it was Chair 7 seeing as though all the other numbers were taken.
-The gents ridge lift does not have a number seeing as though it was installed after numbers were used instead of names.

The lift in Bryan's picture is the Bell Mountain lift for sure. So either the lift in the picture was not installed as the segundo lift or lift 3 was never installed at sunlight as segundo.

There was a chair 3 Riblet that replaced the Heron chair 3 if it existed.

Here are some maps courtesy of coloradoskihistory.com


Aspen in the 60's


Aspen in the 50's

[skier2]

i think it's interesting that Aspen had beginner runs in the 50s-70s and then eliminated them from the map or called them intermediate from the 80s on.