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[Skiing#1]

Yesterday I noticed something on load chairlift at Brighton and never see it before. It is a newer. I don't know what it called. It is different than carpet or conveyor. It helps to make skiers and snowboarders stay without slip. It looks like "sticky" black lines.

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[SkiLiftsRock]

Maybe it is the wood foundation for the snow to build up on?

[Skiing#1]

They can walk, ski or snowboard on it until red line "here" without any slip also helps slow down easy and very smooth. I can feel that something stops me over red line.

I just want to know what it called.

[Allan]

Looks similar to our ramps - ours our puckboard strips on top of a wood frame. Makes the ramp easy to maintain.

[SuperRat]

It looks like a ramp design Boyne was encouraging its New England resorts to adopt a few years ago. Basically as Allan described. 1x4 inch board of a plastic material placed perpendicular to the ramp about a shovels width apart and filled in with snow. The vertical boards support the weight of the skiers and help slow snow compaction and icing.