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[Lift Kid]

I found this website a while ago. It is quite interesting. There are pics of the lifts and lodge and more.

Link: Candy Mountain

[Peter]

The plaque for the Hall lift says "Designed and built in 1970 for Loch Lomond Ski Area" Does anyone know if this lift was moved from Loch Lomond to Candy Mtn?

[Lift Kid]

Loch Lomond owned Candy Mountain so they may have asked for their name on it. I will look into it though.

Edit: I found on the instalation survey that it was sold to Loch Lomond. But, they still owned the area.

[lastchair_44]

That's really cool...I like those lost area pics. It always makes you wonder...thanks for sharing!

[coskibum]

wow, that place is in bad shape compared to Cuchara and Ski Rio who all closed during the same time period.

[andyh1962]

Lift Kid, on Nov 11 2006, 08:51 PM, said:

Loch Lomond owned Candy Mountain so they may have asked for their name on it. I will look into it though.

Edit: I found on the instalation survey that it was sold to Loch Lomond. But, they still owned the area.

I lived in Thunder Bay from 1982 to 1984 while I was at school. Loch Lomond and Candy Mountain were definitely owned by different ownership groups during that period. The Lift Construction survey shows a HALL double chair built at Loch Lomond in 1970. Two more Borvig double chairs were added at Loch Lomond in 1972. . These 1972 chairs are still in place today at Loch Lomond.
Candy Mountain is on the construction survey in 1971 for a Poma double chair. If the Name Plate on the lift now at Candy Mountain says Loch Lomond that would be due to the fact that in 1986 Loch Lomond replaced the 1970 Hall lift with a Quad chair built by BM Lifts. For a period of time, certainly in the 1990's Loch Lomond and Candy Mountain were run by the same ownership group. Why the drive unit from the original Poma chair was replaced with one built by Hall is the big question. Perhaps someone more knowledgeable about individual Lift manufacturers could look closer at the pictures on the Candy Mountain website and see what parts are Hall and which are Poma.

[Lift Kid]

If you scroll to the bottom of the Candy Mountain page, there is a news paper article that talks about how candy mountain was recently sold to a couple for residential and they are living in the refurbished rental shop.

[Tramway Guy]

Skier, on Nov 11 2006, 11:41 PM, said:

The plaque for the Hall lift says "Designed and built in 1970 for Loch Lomond Ski Area" Does anyone know if this lift was moved from Loch Lomond to Candy Mtn?

The entire Hall lift was definitely moved from Loch Lomond to Candy Mountain. I saw it there in the late '70's or early '80's. When I returned to Loch Lomond many years later, it was gone, and replaced by a BM lift. Went to Rock Candy and there it was.