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02-04-2014, 06:26 PM #26
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02-04-2014, 09:03 PM #27
That's what I have heard also.
Great old footage that shows the old single on Red, the original Granite chair and the now long gone Poma: http://www.youtube.com/user/spiritofred
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02-04-2014, 09:38 PM #28"Those 1%ers are not an avaricious "them" but in reality the most entrepreneurial of "us". If we had more of them and fewer grandstanding politicians, we would all be better off."
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02-04-2014, 09:57 PM #29
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02-05-2014, 07:46 AM #30Registered User
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The original wooden towered, single chaired Red Mountain chairlift was built in 1947. It was replaced with the "new" Mueller double chair in 1974.
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02-05-2014, 08:17 AM #31
Monarch Mountain officially started as a ski area in 1939, although people had been skiing the mountains surrounding the valley for as far back as 1914. Monarch was built by Works Project Administration workers, and then given to the city of Salida. A 500' rope tow powered by a gear box from an old oil derrick and a Chevy engine ran from what is now the parking lot to the top of Gunbarrel, at the time only half its current length.
The "bullwheel" and some cable is all that's left. The trees to the left were very sweet yesterday.
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02-05-2014, 09:13 AM #32
I don't know where West is or anything about that chair but I wouldn't doubt that there are some chairlifts of that nature. Many were just jerry-rigged old tramways that the locals modified to become chairlifts. The first specifically purposed double chairlift, though, was built by Riblet. Riblet also got their start with tramway systems for mining operations so, not a stretch to believe old-timers did whatever to make various up-transport systems for their new-fangled ski hills.
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02-05-2014, 12:45 PM #33
The original lift 1 at aspen was built in the 40s from re purposed mining equipment. Replaced in the 70s though.
What about europe? Gotta be some older ones there. Theres probably a tram still running there that predates any N American lift?>__________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ ________________
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02-05-2014, 12:55 PM #34Registered User
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Back in the 80's the HW guy who had been at cominco for 41 years told me back in the day he got a bill for something so he went to accounting and asked whatsup cuz he worked for IBM not cominco the woman said "oh don't worry about that its for the chair lift" obviously some creative accounting
If you ever met any of "The old bastards" at red they were pretty coolLee Lau - xxx-er is the laziest Asian canuck I know
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02-05-2014, 01:14 PM #35
Those videos are great! My first trip to Red was in 1971 or so and I still remember thinking the Red chair was pretty funky, kind of cool with the wood towers and single chairs. What I really vividly remember, though, is riding the Granite Chair and nearly shitting myself when we went over the gully. It seemed like we were 200' off the ground. It absolutely scared the hell out of me.
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02-05-2014, 01:21 PM #36Funky But Chic
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02-05-2014, 10:23 PM #38
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02-06-2014, 11:26 AM #39
Mt Baldy's main lift goes back to 1952. Slow as fuck and now crowded with Mexicans going for 1/2 days trips up to frolic in the snow...when there's snow.
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02-06-2014, 12:36 PM #40
Huh....I remember that chair. I rode it in the summer of 1982 to go up hiking on a hot August day. Looks funny now, thirty-two years later.
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02-06-2014, 01:11 PM #41
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02-06-2014, 01:16 PM #42
I just watched an older Warren Miller flick, and was reminded of the old single at Boyne Mountain in northern Michigan. The lift was purchased from Sun Valley, and was the first lift in the Midwest. It was sold and replaced with a double which is still in use. No idea where the single ended up.
Maybe this was from the same era as the single at Eyak?
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02-12-2014, 10:33 AM #43
i was told years ago that the lift at the hill i started skiing on (another mt. baldy, in ontario) was put up sometime in the late 30s or early 40s. not sure if that's true or not.
that's the lift in '63 anyway. it's definitely still trucking along today.
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02-12-2014, 10:52 AM #44
A bit OT, but has anyone ridden that lift that links the 2 'peaks' at Whitecap in Northern Sconny? Scariest goddamn lift ride ever. It doesn't go up, just across. At one point you're 200ft up on a rickety old double with no safety bar.
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02-12-2014, 11:51 AM #45
True dat. I met one of them riding the chair, and did a lap with him on paradise. At that point, one of them had passed, and (although he didn't let on) they were preparing to sell.
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02-12-2014, 05:47 PM #46
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02-12-2014, 09:19 PM #47
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02-12-2014, 09:27 PM #48
I wanna know when the lift at skiland was built... bbecause it feels ooooold.
They do rent strait skis and rear entry boots! and have the farthest north chairlift in North America
http://www.skiland.org/
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02-12-2014, 11:22 PM #49
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02-20-2014, 07:29 PM #50
very cool info everyone. thanks
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