Stoke of the Week: Ski Lifts

[H-man]

Ski Lifts, sometimes known as the stairway to heaven. In salute to recent actions and subsequent postings, how about a little Blue Tram Car stoke.

http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic24007.jpg

Which lifts bring back your best memories?

[teledave]

http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic22258.jpg

Some very good memories.

[H-man]

Agreed.

http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic24006.jpg

[teledave]

Throwing in some ski lift humor....

http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic19143.jpg

Notice the guy's jacket.
[Edit: Oops]

[CaddyDaddy77]

Sorry, my pics are never very good or all that interesting, but two of my favs, Silverton.
Early,
http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic15345.jpg
Late,
http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic21266.jpg


Wolf Creek, Waterfall lift.
http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic15150.jpg

[AntiSoCalSkier]

These have been posted before, but they're still good.

http://members.aol.com/BACrocker/notch.jpg


http://members.aol.com/BACrocker/thunder.jpg

[bad_roo]

http://www.frankreichspezialist.de/assets/images/La_Grave_pisten.jpg

[Mulletizer]

http://www.la-grave.com/images/en-images/09.jpg
http://www.lagrave-lameije.com/webgalerie_hiver/Grave_33.jpg

dammit Roo, you fast. Here are the pics. :)

[teledave]

Alta-Supreme (Thanks CS)

http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic22435.jpg

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

Lift Stoke by Tero Repo:

http://www.solidpowder.com/modules/My_eGallery/gallery/repo/reposcene/53_SCENIC.jpg

http://www.solidpowder.com/modules/My_eGallery/gallery/repo/reposcene/59_SCENIC.jpg

[noodles]

queue MRG single.

[Superstar Punani]

Thanks for callllllling Kirkwood!

https://www.tetongravity.com/usergalleries/albums/userpics/10325/normal_DSC01481.JPG

[Superstar Punani]

Best tram ride ever

[Superstar Punani]

Splat Simmons of KISS

[Tippster]

Lifted from the web... there's a lift in this picture, barely visible, called "Supreme." Aptly named, IMHO.

http://www.skibumnews.com/alta6.JPG

[road trip]

Originally posted by Mulletizer

http://www.lagrave-lameije.com/webgalerie_hiver/Grave_33.jpg

My money is on red!

[LCC]

Supreme Chair at Alta, Devil's Castle in the background:
https://www.tetongravity.com/usergalleries/albums/userpics/10245/normal_untitled.jpg

And getting ripped out this summer, Germ:
https://www.tetongravity.com/usergalleries/albums/userpics/10245/normal_untitled2.jpg

[CantDog]

Sugarloaf, Spillway Chairs
http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic15336.jpg

[Baconzoo]

Check out Micha on the left rocking the Fishers...
JH circa 1993? Once Powder Mag did a story on how wasted people got on this "last tram" the next year Cops were on it!
http://www.baconzoo.com/smokey.jpg

[Schmear]

Posted previously, but here's to double chairlifts that show no immediate signs of being replaced....

[tuffy109]

a little more down east from windham. this picture just makes me cold looking at it.

pic taken from, get this chairlift.org. check it, pics from everywhere.

http://www.chairlift.org/pics/windham/wind6.jpg

Joey, what's a poma?

http://www.chairlift.org/pics/hunter/hunter18.jpg

magic

http://www.chairlift.org/pics/ma/ma21.jpg

my first chair at bellayre

http://www.chairlift.org/pics/bell/be8.jpg

[JMO]

First chair I ever rode west of New England:
http://vail.snow.com/gallery/vailvistabahnnov11.jpg
First chair I ever rode east of New England (Grindelwald - Bort):
http://www.earthsci.unibe.ch/people/brouwer/foto16/g04.jpg
Deepest powder day of my life under this:
http://www.tahoevacationguide.com/Slides2/aerialtram-84-78fx.jpg
Former view out my front door:
http://www.squawcreektransportation.com/images/squaw.jpg
Best T-Bar ride ever:
http://www.whistlerblackcomb.com/gallery/recent/graphics/012504_Horstman_Glacier.jpg
Favorite East Coast lift in the making:
http://www.travelnotes.de/rails/wash/pic414.jpg

[jstead]

http://www.netway.com/~theway/ski/2003/mrg/mrg03.jpg

[tuffy109]

jmo - where's that last pic from?

[JMO]

Originally posted by tuffy109
jmo - where's that last pic from?

That's the Mt. Washington Cog Railway. Next season, it's open to skiers all season long up to the Waumbek Tank. Oh yeah.

[Carnivore]

Representing Mammoth

https://www.tetongravity.com/usergalleries/albums/userpics/10549/Lift01.JPG

https://www.tetongravity.com/usergalleries/albums/userpics/10549/Lift02.JPG

https://www.tetongravity.com/usergalleries/albums/userpics/10549/Lift03.JPG

https://www.tetongravity.com/usergalleries/albums/userpics/10549/Lift04.JPG

https://www.tetongravity.com/usergalleries/albums/userpics/10549/Lift05.JPG

The original Mammoth Gondola, 1966-1998 R.I.P.
https://www.tetongravity.com/usergalleries/albums/userpics/10549/Lift06.jpg

https://www.tetongravity.com/usergalleries/albums/userpics/10549/Lift07.JPG

https://www.tetongravity.com/usergalleries/albums/userpics/10549/Lift08.JPG

Whats up with the guy in the loafers?
https://www.tetongravity.com/usergalleries/albums/userpics/10549/Lift09.JPG

https://www.tetongravity.com/usergalleries/albums/userpics/10549/Lift10.JPG

https://www.tetongravity.com/usergalleries/albums/userpics/10549/Lift11.JPG

[teledave]

Not the best lift, but the one I've spent most of my time on, and had the most good times on with some great people.

Ober Gatlinburg, the Black Lift (even if it is red :confused: )

http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic24027.jpg

http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic24028.jpg

http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic24029.jpg

and the largest tram in North America.

http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic19060.jpg

[CS]

Originally posted by teledave
Alta-Collins Lift (I think, or is it Wildcat, Utards?)

http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic22435.jpg

Supreme, I believe.

[DaveTV]

Name this one:
http://www.chairlift.org/pics/copper/co3.jpg

[Tippster]

My supremo-core sleuthing right click abilities tell me it was a chair some time ago in Copper Mtn.

[Xover]

Tippy,

You JONG!! That is Germ in the background.

CS,

The first dude was right; that is Supreme.

[The AD]

Anyone know this lift? Yes, it's easy if you cheat, so don't.
http://home.comcast.net/~seussnelson/images/big-chief113003.jpg

[Tippster]

Originally posted by Xover
Tippy,

You JONG!! That is Germ in the background.

...
Speaking of Germ...
http://www.ski-dondiego.org/images/Alta%20Dec.%2099/Germania%20chair.jpg

Ahem... I'd tell you you're wrong, but that would be rather silly, wouldn't it? However, Mr. Smartypants... might I refer you to my signature... ;)

[teledave]

More lift goodness:

Horstman T-Bar, Blackcomb

http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic24039.jpg

http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic24038.jpg

Jersey Cream Express, Blackcomb

http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic24037.jpg

Excelerator Chair, Blackcomb

http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic24035.jpg

Of course what chair isn't great on a snowy day?

http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic24036.jpg

Rest assured we put the windshield to good use even on sunny days like this.

[summit]

Tyrone: I like those.

Ski Bum Love Exhibition:

[Idris]

http://www.braich.demon.co.uk/web04/midicables.jpg

9000+ feet to the baselodge...

[Karl Stall]

Originally posted by Idris

9000+ feet to the baselodge...

mommy.....

[summit]

damn, idris!
nice!

[Schmear]

Originally posted by The AD
Anyone know this lift? Yes, it's easy if you cheat, so don't.


Stevens, Big Chief?

[The AD]

Originally posted by Schmear
Stevens, Big Chief?

You are correct Sir!

[DaveTV]

Where is this one?
http://home.beld.net/~davev/rightclickingwillnothelp.jpg

[tuffy109]

hahahaha @ the properties

i'd say that's somewhere back in the late 70s/early 80s

[The AD]

Originally posted by DaveTV
Where is this one?

Steamboat?

[crashnburn'd]

https://www.tetongravity.com/usergalleries/albums/userpics/10880/normal_2nd%20chair.jpg

Second chair, 12 inches, skipping work :D

Did anyone here happen to ski Plattekill with CMH Volkls? If you did you, were in the chair ahead of me and I blew past your ass for first tracks :p

[Lone Star]

http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic23042.jpg

[KrisSkis]

[i]Originally posted by tuffy109

my first chair at bellayre

http://www.chairlift.org/pics/bell/be8.jpg [/B]

Oh my God...the memories....that was my first chair too...i was all of 6 yrs old...we still have our house 5 minutes away on the opposite side of the mountain :D

[tibaher]

Originally posted by The AD
Anyone know this lift? Yes, it's easy if you cheat, so don't.
http://home.comcast.net/~seussnelson/images/big-chief113003.jpg

call me a JONG but I've had some of the best turns of my life under this chair. No shit. Also one of the worst runs too. This particular pitch shown here has been known to eat man or beast alive and spit them out broken ribs and all. 30 degrees of off fall line, cut up spuds... I never ever ski this pitch...

Nice stoke of the week!

[shirk]

http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic24069.gif

http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic24066.jpg

http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic24067.jpg

[Squirrel99]

Originally posted by Schmear
Posted previously, but here's to double chairlifts that show no immediate signs of being replaced....

Missing that Chair 2 at Alpental right now:(

[StormRider]

Originally posted by JMO
That's the Mt. Washington Cog Railway. Next season, it's open to skiers all season long up to the Waumbek Tank. Oh yeah.

HEY! WHOA! Is this really true? I'd almost head back east for a weekend to check this out. Where can I find an official word on this?

[Squirrel99]

Top of G @ Blackcomb

[ArmchairExtreme]

Good on ya to H-Man for the thread. Lift pics are the shit, because, let’s face it… We don’t stop to set up and shoot in the middle of a great pow run. Well maybe Splat does, but he’s old as fuck and has has to pimp the photos for pass money (wink, oldster)

I usually whip out my little digi (hanging curve) and get a few shots in on the lift to try and remember the day. I love Mammy and wish I could be back there at the end of the season. Some of the late season pics that have come up recently are painful to look at.

Here’s some of my favorite Mammy lift pics from the last few seasons:
https://www.tetongravity.com/usergalleries/albums/userpics/10014/first%2023%202-27-03.jpg
that was a cool little pow day

https://www.tetongravity.com/usergalleries/albums/userpics/10014/poaching%20from%203.jpg

edit... forgot a photo of gaper wiping out in the pow that morn. heheh
https://www.tetongravity.com/usergalleries/albums/userpics/10014/23%20poww%202-27-03%7E0.jpg


here’s the place that will make ya smile.
https://www.tetongravity.com/usergalleries/albums/userpics/10014/June%20face%202-26-03.jpghttps://www.tetongravity.com/usergalleries/albums/userpics/10014/23%20poww%202-27-03%7E0.jpg

[dbp]

http://www.jacksonhole.com/mountain/pics/corbets_tram.jpg

[The AD]

Originally posted by tibaher
call me a JONG but I've had some of the best turns of my life under this chair. No shit. Also one of the worst runs too. This particular pitch shown here has been known to eat man or beast alive and spit them out broken ribs and all. 30 degrees of off fall line, cut up spuds... I never ever ski this pitch...

The people in the photo don't exactly look like they're tearing it up! Is one of them you, tibaher? :p

This picture was taken on November 30th, 2003. It was my first day of the season. As I recall conditions were not great!

[Buster Highmen]

Home: http://www.feedthehabit.com/pics/ski/crystal/high_campbell.jpg

[Squirrel99]

Originally posted by Buster Highmen
Home: http://www.feedthehabit.com/pics/ski/crystal/high_campbell.jpg

Ahh, good ol' chair 6. My 'new' home

[zion zig zag]

man i spent alot of time on this lift this winter. i miss it already...bad.
https://www.tetongravity.com/usergalleries/albums/userpics/10497/normal_basin3-3-4%20004.jpg

[FollowMe]

Originally posted by flykdog
man i spent alot of time on this lift this winter. i miss it already...bad.
https://www.tetongravity.com/usergalleries/albums/userpics/10497/normal_basin3-3-4%20004.jpg

Did you spend anytime on that ridge in the background?

Edit to add one of my favorites...
http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic24074.jpg

[powderhound]

"Mountain on the Lake" what we can't see is the guys stomping out the word "SKI" on the lake below.
https://www.tetongravity.com/usergalleries/albums/userpics/11291/normal_scan%7E3.jpg
Eyes forward
https://www.tetongravity.com/usergalleries/albums/userpics/11291/normal_scan0003%7E0.jpg
Big Sky
First gondola ride, jus like dinneyland
https://www.tetongravity.com/usergalleries/albums/userpics/11291/normal_scan0001%7E1.jpg
good for one thing...hotbox
https://www.tetongravity.com/usergalleries/albums/userpics/11291/normal_scan0004%7E0.jpg
This place stretches out.
https://www.tetongravity.com/usergalleries/albums/userpics/11291/normal_scan0002%7E1.jpg

[powderhound]

Summer lifts?
https://www.tetongravity.com/usergalleries/albums/userpics/11291/normal_scan0007.jpg
I'd like to live here:
https://www.tetongravity.com/usergalleries/albums/userpics/11291/normal_scan0006.jpg
https://www.tetongravity.com/usergalleries/albums/userpics/11291/normal_scan0005.jpg

[bad_roo]

A few more of my personal favourites...

https://www.tetongravity.com/usergalleries/albums/userpics/10319/grandmontetstram.jpg
Grands Montets tram, Argentiere

http://www.myntet.ac/240/skidakning/2003/images/101_0182.JPG
Pic Blanc tram, Alpe d'Huez

http://www.boardmonger.com/images/alpine/a3.jpg
Summit Six chair, Alpine Meadows

http://www.boardmonger.com/images/squaw/s11.jpg
Siberia Chair, Squaw Valley (helllo Palisades)

http://www.jacksonhole.com/images/photos01-02/021202.jpg
Thunder Chair, Jackson (just visible above Tower 3 Chute there)

http://www.spicebham.com/gallery/Skiing/Alpe%20dHuez%2002/images/The%20Scream%20Chair%20Lift.jpg
The Sarenne chairlift, Alpe d'Huez (it's going under the end of the resort's altiport runway and about to drop into the Sarenne Gorge. Very dramatic ride.)

https://www.tetongravity.com/usergalleries/albums/userpics/10319/beefcurtain.jpg
Casse de Bouef in Serre Chevalier. Lots of fun to be found here.

[zion zig zag]

Originally posted by FollowMe
Did you spend anytime on that ridge in the background?


yep, one of the things that made it great.

[The AD]

Originally posted by bad_roo
http://www.jacksonhole.com/images/photos01-02/021202.jpg
Thunder Chair, Jackson (just visible above Tower 3 Chute there)

That's the worst Photoshop clone job I've ever seen!

[bad_roo]

Where? I must be missing something...

[Mulletizer]

Well, it looks to me as if the chair that goes straight across the picture has been badly airbrushed out.

I am not stalking you

[The AD]

Originally posted by bad_roo
Where? I must be missing something...

It looks to me like the chair cuts across the sky area right above the skier. To me it looks like whoever retouched the photo tried to clone out the lift, but didn't do a very good job.

[edit: looks like I got beat by Mulletizer]

[bad_roo]

Typical. I look for a shot that includes the Thunder lift in and some fucker is trying to include it out.

[milton]

1st annual Mt. Ellen classic at Sugarbush, here's some from the Summit Quad, one of my favorite lifts.

http://voigtnet.com/mtellen/DSC01366.jpg

Summer Sticks
http://voigtnet.com/mtellen/DSC01367.jpg

Teeing off

http://voigtnet.com/mtellen/DSC01369.jpg

The "course"
http://voigtnet.com/mtellen/DSC01364.jpg

[Mulletizer]

http://www.jacksonhole.com/images/photos01-02/021202.jpg

Skiing in a down jacket --------> So hot right now

[Cosmic Bandito]

http://www.greekpeak.net/images/trailpicfinished/images/Iliad-with-title_jpg.jpg

heh.

[CS]

Did you need a belay for that first tee? Or was it farther down that you had to rope up?

http://voigtnet.com/mtellen/DSC01369.jpg

[milton]

Originally posted by CS
Did you need a belay for that first tee? Or was it farther down that you had to rope up?



Negative, but goofy attire was encouraged.

[interloper]

http://www.kokotele.com/021202.jpg

[CS]

Originally posted by milton
Negative, but goofy attire was encouraged.

Oh, ok. Then that totally explains why that guy has a carabiner clipped to his backpack.

[H-man]

Originally posted by StormRider
HEY! WHOA! Is this really true? I'd almost head back east for a weekend to check this out. Where can I find an official word on this?

Yep, it's true. Bretton Woods now owns the Cog and 60yards +/- on each side of the tracks. They are grooming it and opening it to skiers this coming winter. They had a test/ media event this winter that some local North Conway reporterrs I know whent on. It was raining but they said it was still fun/different. Go to Bretton Woods web site for more info I bet.

[H-man]

Originally posted by bad_roo
A few more of my personal favourites...

http://www.jacksonhole.com/images/photos01-02/021202.jpg
Thunder Chair, Jackson (just visible above Tower 3 Chute there)



Roo, I'll see your Thunder Chair with Tower Tree Chute and Raise you a Sublett Chair with Alta One Chute;)

http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic24076.jpg

[H-man]

Here is one that is very personal to me. No longer exists, but a lot of history.

http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic24077.jpg

http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic24078.jpg

http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic24079.jpg

[The AD]

Gotta love this one, too:
http://www.skiinghistory.org/GRAPHICS/Atkinson/At07.jpg

No lift in this one, but just for the sake of stoke, check this one out from the same site:
http://www.skiinghistory.org/GRAPHICS/Atkinson/At06.jpg

More here: http://www.skiinghistory.org/kruck1.html

[teledave]

Originally posted by The AD
No lift in this one, but just for the sake of stoke, check this one out from the same site:
http://www.skiinghistory.org/GRAPHICS/Atkinson/At06.jpg


FKNA!

Is that Ernie Blake at Taos?

[The AD]

Originally posted by teledave
FKNA!

Is that Ernie Blake at Taos?

The caption said "Joe Marrilac, Squaw Valley, California 1952"

[snowsprite]

I liked the siberia chair at Squaw for the altitude induced vertigo-nausea sensations I got at the top! (I'm an altitude whimp)



http://www.rgj.com/news/files/2003/02/08/21907_350.jpg

Sprite

[Phil]

The fucking crasiest ride around.

http://www.southamericaskiguide.com/Argentina/laslpic1.jpg

http://www.snow-forecast.com/coppermine/albums/userpics/10008/normal

http://www.laslenas.net/gallery/slopes/images/13.jpg

http://www.laslenas.net/gallery/slopes/images/19.jpg

I swear to god Seth Morrison pointed me to my line from the lift in a white out. I didn't realise it was him till later...

I was scared shitless going up there. Mad wind, sketchy chairs and Argentinos digging it out constantly all day.

[teledave]

Originally posted by Bullet
Joe Marrilac, Squaw Valley, California 1952

Thanks, Bullet & AD, I'm at home on dial -up so looking at the pics in that link ain't happenin' until Monday.

Phil/Gorillo: Marte, definitely on "the list" .

[bad_roo]

http://www.nevisrange.co.uk/winter/images/BACK1.jpg

And one in Mulletizer's back yard ;)

[Tippster]

Some mad toe-pressure-steeze rahtcheer:

http://www.skiinghistory.org/GRAPHICS/Atkinson/At09.jpg

Papa Phunkenstein?

[basom]

Originally posted by Phil
The fucking crasiest ride around.

http://www.southamericaskiguide.com/Argentina/laslpic1.jpg

http://www.snow-forecast.com/coppermine/albums/userpics/10008/normal

http://www.laslenas.net/gallery/slopes/images/13.jpg

http://www.laslenas.net/gallery/slopes/images/19.jpg



ding ding! marte = the fucking shit

the ride up is almost as puckering as the ride down :D

http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic24105.jpg

[snowsprite]

From a Chilean travel review on http://observer.guardian.co.uk/

SlingShot Lifts

They are the stuff of skiers' nightmares, stopping even the most proficient in their tracks and leaving anyone still coming to terms with the sport quaking in their ski boots. Known as slingshot lifts, they cause a line of jaws to drop open on the slopes as white-faced skiers get a first glimpse of the terrifying sight.

We are talking about the grand-daddy of all button lifts - five in a row zipping up the impossible-looking gradient at an incredible speed. Think 18 miles an hour on a 35 degree angle - for many skiers, including myself, a challenging set of statistics just going downhill. But uphill!


'It's like flying,' says my ski instructor. 'Or waterskiing uphill. Nothing scary about it.'

I watch an experienced snowboarder wipe out going up the slope while the other four people on the lift seem to be having their arms wrenched out of their sockets in the effort to hold on.

He finally gets the nerve to go on the lift:

I stick with the mountain theme, heading off with a Swiss teacher, Heidi. Together, we face my bete noir. Within minutes of me asking whether she thinks I am capable of it, I find myself on the Condor slingshot lift, holding on for grim death, feeling an amazing surge of adrenaline course through my body as we fly up the hill. At the top, I wait obediently as we slip down the slope slightly before let ting go of the lift, one by one, carefully, so as not to upset the balance too much.

A huge grin breaks out on my face. It doesn't matter that there's still so much adrenaline in my body that I wipe out on the descent. Or that any future forays are cut short when Heidi points to the rock face behind the lift down which snow is flowing and tumbling; not a life-threatening avalanche, but enough for the guides to blow their warning whistles. I have survived the slingshot lift. What's more, I've got a taste for powder and skiing in Chile that's going to see me back on the plane next year.

Anyone been on one of these? :eek: Pics?
Sprite

[Phil]

This is one of those explosive lifts. Ya get a real bang out of it. Sorry for the supersized pic but all I could find.

There is a starting gate to cross and all. Ready set, cross the bar, stick between your legs, hold, hold, yeeha !

http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic13362.jpg

[tuffy109]

so it's basically a poma lift?

[Phil]

Yup, the attack of the deadly poma, keeps the gorbs and slowboarders away from the goods.

[basom]

Originally posted by tuffy109
so it's basically a poma lift?

its the high speed bungie nut crushing poma

[Squirrel99]

Originally posted by basom
ding ding! marte = the fucking shit

the ride up is almost as puckering as the ride down :D

http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic24105.jpg

Ding Ding is fucknEhRight. Marte kicks so much ass it is ridiculous. And loads of fun when you get stuck hovering between towers 4 & 5... If there is any lift worthy of trumping the JH tram, this is it. Aright beyoatch, see ya in September.

[DaveTV]

No more guesses on the last one?
Where is this?
http://home.beld.net/~davev/chair.jpg

[basom]

Originally posted by DaveTV
No more guesses on the last one?
Where is this?
http://home.beld.net/~davev/chair.jpg

blue hill?

[The AD]

I'm not sure where it is, but they could use this shot to illustrate what is meant by "marginal conditions."

[Spamhelmet]

Fernie : white pass quad, with the usuall fernie weather...

https://www.tetongravity.com/usergalleries/albums/userpics/10887/Picture%20208.jpg

[G]

Originally posted by DaveTV
No more guesses on the last one?
Where is this?


That's hell, Dave.

Or at least that's what hell looks like.

[edit] and Massachusetts.

[skea 457]

I can't say I have skied it but...

https://www.tetongravity.com/usergalleries/albums/userpics/11516/Antarctica%20rope%20tow.jpg

[DaveTV]

Originally posted by Geoff
That's hell, Dave.

Or at least that's what hell looks like.

[edit] and Massachusetts.
Really now Geoff. That's 1/2 mile from company's parking lot. I get to go at lunch.
PS Hell=mexifornia. Sorry dude. Wouldn't live there for anything ;)

[Ski Beaver]

Peak Chair, Whislter

http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic19445.jpg

Lake Louise - Frontside

http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic19455.jpg

Paradise Chair - Lake Louise - Backside

http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic19971.jpg

[laseranimal]

poking around and I thought I'd bump this one up from the depths

[AfroMullet]

I fell in love with the trees on the back of the lake. mmmmm tasty face-shots 5 days after a storm, even during peak holiday season in bluebird skies.

http://skibrighton.com/gallery/upload_large/1044308847IMG_0190.JPG

The lift tops out on the ridge to the right of the summit. I have soooooo many good memories of that bootpack and wolverine cirque. Now let me wipe away the drool.

[Pura Vida]

Didn't see one of my personal favorites on here. Lincoln, Chair 22 Mammoth. All sorts of fun on a stormy day or any day for that matter. :D

A deep day last year...stoked

http://ahigherground.net/img/lincoln.jpg

[FreakofSnow]

https://www.tetongravity.com/usergalleries/albums/userpics/normal_Bridger%20Chair%20Bridger%20Bowl.jpg

Bridger lift

[gonzo]

first chair, KT-22. in the maw of the Jan, 2005 'gurge.

http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic32620.jpg

[rip]

here are my late additions

frontside lift at bohemia (taken 3/23/03)
http://tetongravity.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=3951&stc=1

the 2 person chair on the backside(only runs on weekends)
http://tetongravity.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=3952&stc=1

and the scourge of gapers all across the UP, the t-bar at ripley
http://tetongravity.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=3953&stc=1

[skea 457]

http://www.snow.co.nz/clients/snow/photogallery/images/986.jpg

[davey]

the old sugarloaf gondola
http://www.nelsap.org/skihistory/sugarloafgondola.jpg

[warthog]

http://www.snow.co.nz/clients/snow/photogallery/images/986.jpg
Is it at Courchevel(sp?)? That looks really familiar from my Trois Vallees trip.

[baseWeldr]

Lone Peak Tram at Big Sky, base just visible in front of skier
http://bozemandailychronicle.com/art/photos/winter/apr2001pics/cg5.jpg
two 15 person cars...
http://www.bigskyresort.com/images/bs_ch_tram_01.jpg

[Free Range Lobster]

An East Coast classic:

Wildcat - Tomcat Triple

http://photo.ifeelhappy.com/albums/userpics/10001/normal_snow6.jpg

Sunday River - White Heat Quad after it was closed last season (And with fkn deep base)

http://photo.ifeelhappy.com/albums/userpics/10001/normal_10heat.jpg

[SkiJunky05]

Big Spruce @ Stowe:
http://www.chairlift.org/pics/stowe/st20.jpg

Couldn't find a good pic of the Castlerock Double at Sugarbush, but it's on the fun list.

Cannon's old tram
http://www.chairlift.org/pics/ca/ca1.jpg

[mattitude]

Aguille Du Midi - Cham
http://mattitude.com/europe_trip_2001/aguille_du_midi_tram_chamonix.jpg

[bigtrubs]

Seventh Heaven on Blackcomb in July. Can't forget the mini sound-system in the backpack for lift parties!

http://images.snowboard.com/members/459810/photos/872251.jpg

[mattitude]

These are all from Mammy

Chair 23 with G2 in background
http://mattitude.com/adventures/mammoth_new_year_2004/images/IMG_0802.jpg

Mr and Mrs Barnballs on 22
http://mattitude.com/adventures/mammoth_new_year_2004/images/IMG_0766.jpg

http://mattitude.com/adventures/mammoth_12_20_03/images/IMG_0608.jpg

Mammy 25
http://mattitude.com/adventures/mammoth_new_year_2004/images/IMG_0794.jpg

Chair Quiver
http://mattitude.com/adventures/mammoth_new_year_2004/images/IMG_0801.jpg

Early Season Cornice G2
http://mattitude.com/adventures/mammoth_11_15_03/images/IMG_0354.jpg

Chair 2
http://mattitude.com/adventures/mammoth_11_15_03/images/IMG_0344.jpg

14
http://mattitude.com/adventures/mammoth_04_26_03/images/IMG_2675.jpg

Village G
http://mattitude.com/adventures/mammoth_12_20_03/images/IMG_0605.jpg

[skea 457]

Is it at Courchevel(sp?)? That looks really familiar from my Trois Vallees trip.

Exactly the wrong side of world. Rugby tow at Broken River (http://www.brokenriver.co.nz/images/trail_large.jpg) (to the right of the Palmer day lodge). The lift is a nutcracker, a high speed rope tow which you hold on to with a clamp so the pulleys don't break your hand. The black thing on the left is the guys hand, he was holding the camera with one hand next to his hip. How to ride a nutcracker (http://www.chillout.co.nz/mountains/nutcracker/default.asp) and here (http://www.invincible.co.nz/tow.htm), expert skiers who are good on T bars and platters will still take several attempts before being able to get all the way up to the top the first time they use this type of lift. But these lifts are the reason there are no stupid gapers at these mountains. The busiest day I have ever seen at Craigieburn there were about 50 people, and to get from the car park to the lifts at BR there is a 1/2 hour hike. These places are the anti-Deer Valley of ski areas.

[bcrider]

Ski Lifts, sometimes known as the stairway to heaven.

Really cool thread topic and pictures! :)

But please don’t confuse a chairlift with a “stairway to heaven”.
Stairway implies walking and sitting on a chairlift is anything but.

Magic carpet ride is more appropriate. ;)

[p.blz]

Gotta throw in my two bits here.

If you haven't ridden this lift......I suggest you do.

Aiguille du Midi - Chamonix France

http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic26643.jpg

[cj001f]

Main tow at Temple Basin.

Whats real fun is digging it out the day after a storm - especially before there's a platform dug at the top.

[Nate Dogg]

I'm disappointed no one has mentioned one of my all-time favorites. Another lift from this same mountain has mentioned, but not this little beauty? I only enjoyed a handful of rides on this lovely gondola due to its recent retirement (and my only being 18, started riding it at age 6), but they were all entertaining. The cinder blocks to help prevent blowing in the wind, and at 6 years old I found it entertaining to watch the lift attendant push us to the end of the station and tug the rope...kind of like the car wash. Unfortunately I don't have my own pictures of it but these will have to do. Also included is the gondola from Ischgl, which, being from the East Coast...I was very impressed with (that, and the rest of their modern lifts...not so modern lines :the_finge )

*EDIT: Why don't the pics show up in the thread, I'm an attachment jong :(

[timmay]

my happy place, northwest chair, bachy

[PNWbrit]

https://www.tetongravity.com/usergalleries/albums/userpics/normal_F-AMnLlw5auGzgxgQUdqpeYA%5B1%5D.jpg

Roca Jack - Portillo, Chile, August 2004

[Mit]

https://www.tetongravity.com/usergalleries/albums/userpics/poma_first.jpg

First, Switzerland

[spanky]

A chairlift that doesn't return?

[AfroMullet]

A chairlift that doesn't return?


Where is that?

[The Suit]

Where is that?I don't remember the name, but it's gotta be Killington.

[spanky]

I don't remember the name, but it's gotta be Killington.

Killington - South Ridge (or "Fridge") Triple. It actually goes around in a triangle. About halfway up it takes a left turn over two consectutive bullwheels. People riding it for the first time can be "thrown" for a surprise if they're not aware of it.

[snowfire]

Le Brevent tram with paragliders

http://elizabethrs.smugmug.com/photos/15042319-M.jpg

La Grave telecabine

http://elizabethrs.smugmug.com/photos/15042399-M.jpg

La Grave telecabine disappearing into the fog

http://elizabethrs.smugmug.com/photos/15043886-M.jpg

Biggest tram I've ever seen... end of the day at Glacier 3000

http://elizabethrs.smugmug.com/photos/15042342-M.jpg

[mrryde]

Tuesday Stoke Bumpage ^^^^

[K-Stormchaser]

http://www.heejee.com/images/d.4009.jpg

sic magic carpet gnar

[Brewski2]

http://www.chairlift.org/pics/jay/jay4.jpg

Rode in this baby since I was 3. Spent one winter and 2 summers working on it and repainted the outside of both cabins once. It was a blast to ride in the 'crows nest' on top where it attatches to the cables.

[soul_skier]

Horray For Jay!!!!!

[PTracy P1]

What a great thread. Thankles to all. :)

[BOOMTOWN58]

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c192/boomtown58/primo1.jpg


http://photobucket.com/albums/c192/boomtown58/ogbowl.jpg



Snowbasin 2006

[H-man]

I don't think it has made it yet but very deserving.

Schindlergrat Bahn, St. Anton
http://www.biglines.com/photosv2/2006/03/120x120/biglines_55938.jpg

[Dobish]

http://www.telemarktips.com/Photopost/data/510/Img0690.JPG

[skideeppow]

a little more down east from windham. this picture just makes me cold looking at it.

pic taken from, get this chairlift.org. check it, pics from everywhere.

http://www.chairlift.org/pics/windham/wind6.jpg

Joey, what's a poma?

http://www.chairlift.org/pics/hunter/hunter18.jpg

magic

http://www.chairlift.org/pics/ma/ma21.jpg

my first chair at bellayre

http://www.chairlift.org/pics/bell/be8.jpg
THese are classic, I learned to ski at windham and have not been back for over 15 years. I used to think how big it was (compared to butternut and vernon valley).
Thanks for the pixs

[easterntreeskier]

Mad River Glen in vemont:
http://www.easterntreeskier.com/site/images/madriver0225060012-600x400.jpg

Jay Peak in Vermont:
http://www.easterntreeskier.com/site/images/jay-35mm-300-0006r-600x400.jpg

[stayalert]

red x's or photos...new to tgr not new to stoke....6 pages and no cats or copters?

[aralls]

I took this one during my brief stay in Chamonix:

http://static.flickr.com/39/119710815_ab92dc7208_b.jpg

[aralls]

My other scenic skiing photo, taken at the top of the lift at Grindelwald (near Interlocken), Switzerland, at the end of the ski day:

http://static.flickr.com/46/119705017_f5289da26a_b.jpg

[AtomicTwinStix]

Hooray for Jay!
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y136/greshamb/VermontSkiPics026.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y136/greshamb/JayHey.jpg

Musty Fart Central - Jay Tram
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y136/greshamb/VermontSkiPics029-1.jpg


Rock Island Quad - Cataloochee, NC
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y136/greshamb/Cat12-9-06014.jpg


Top 'o Wildcat
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y136/greshamb/TopofWildcat.jpg

Madonna - Smuggs

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y136/greshamb/VermontSkiPics009.jpg

[AsheanMT]

yesterday at Lost Trail
http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p143/asheanMT/LTchair_1.jpg

[single]

Pierres
http://www.biglines.com/photosv2/2006/12/120x120/biglines_69889.jpg
Bridger
http://www.biglines.com/photosv2/2006/12/120x120/biglines_69888.jpg

[Inspect-her Gadget]

Favorite lift? By the ankles up over my head. Oh, you mean ski lift! Ha! DC, baby

[Roo]

http://www.maxsteeze.co.uk/Sancy/chemineedumascle.jpg
Marmottes3 at Alpe d'Huez is rapidly becoming a favourite because in 180 seconds it gets you back to the top of this...

http://www.biglines.com/photosv2/2006/04/120x120/biglines_56785.jpg


The tram at Sancy is another sleeper.
http://www.maxsteeze.co.uk/Sancy/CouloirdesCabines.jpg
Serving this sort of short but very steep stuff...
http://www.maxsteeze.co.uk/Sancy/CouloirPoubelle.jpg
http://www.maxsteeze.co.uk/Sancy/CouloirPasDeLAne1.jpg

[shirk]

Damn Roo that looks like some fun stuff.

[flatlander420]

Chair 3,.Mt Baldy Ca.

http://www.biglines.com/photosv2/2006/04/120x120/biglines_56403.jpg

[jonesy]

http://www.tremblant-insider.com/IMG_z1957.jpg

[hairy]

23 at mammoth
http://www.gomammoth.com/1103firstchair.jpg

[0g]

Sorry this is so big but I think it is deserving

http://www.madriverglen.com/ski_museum/index-Images/40.jpg

[0g]

The North Face
http://www.newenglandtravelplanner.com/photo_gallery/vermont_ski/images/snow_res2872.jpg

http://skiphotos.franklinsites.com/Vermont-Open/LivingMemorialPark/tbar-2002-0424e.jpg

[skideeppow]

The North Face
http://www.newenglandtravelplanner.com/photo_gallery/vermont_ski/images/snow_res2872.jpg

http://skiphotos.franklinsites.com/Vermont-Open/LivingMemorialPark/tbar-2002-0424e.jpg

where is this in the east?

[BeanDip4All]

I'm disappointed no one has mentioned one of my all-time favorites. Another lift from this same mountain has mentioned, but not this little beauty? I only enjoyed a handful of rides on this lovely gondola due to its recent retirement (and my only being 18, started riding it at age 6), but they were all entertaining. The cinder blocks to help prevent blowing in the wind, and at 6 years old I found it entertaining to watch the lift attendant push us to the end of the station and tug the rope...kind of like the car wash. Unfortunately I don't have my own pictures of it but these will have to do.

Ha!

The Easter Egg gondola! So many memories in that thing. The craziest was when we rode one that literally had a hole in the floor about the size of a cantalope. You could get your boot through it if you wanted to. I remember riding it as a little kid with my dad, bro in law, and uncle and the four of us barely fitting. There are a few kicking around N Conway:
http://a411.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/7/l_2a86395a5f1767d2f75f75bc539f6f7a.jpg

[skifree]

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d63/ramble__on/IMG_6912.jpg

Heavenly this February

[0g]

where is this in the east?
Top is Mt. Snow, bottom is Memorial Park, Brattleboro, VT!!

[Dickeymotto]

Mt. Allen Tram, Snowbasin, UT
Some sick terrain is accessed by this thing.
http://www.snowbasin.com/images/media_center/mt_allen_tram-med.jpg

[PK]

Ooooh, first post!!

Hi everyone.

http://howtoskiboard.com/dscn323.jpg

Alpbach, Austria - Jan 2007.

[Sponge McBragg]

Six Shooter chair Moonlight Mt
http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q154/PCskiculture/100_0044.jpg
Lone Tree ,Moonlight
http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q154/PCskiculture/100_0058.jpg
Summit chair,Tamarflats,Idaho
http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q154/PCskiculture/ok004.jpg
Wildwood chair ,Tamarflats
http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q154/PCskiculture/231020.jpg
http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q154/PCskiculture/231025.jpg

[BushwackerinPA]

Gad 2 at the Bird
http://photos-d.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v64/6/97/505253356/n505253356_31351_3645.jpg

[Burrrr]

The Marte Lift, Las Lenas Early Sept 2001. They said it snowed 9 meters the night before we showed up. The resort was closed for about 10 days prior do to the storm. They had to dig out the lift at the top bowl! We needed a snorkel all week. Ignore the dates on the pics they are wrong. You can see the bottom half of the lift behind us in the last pic, it puts it into perspective.

[skideeppow]

The Marte Lift, Las Lenas Early Sept 2001. They said it snowed 9 meters the night before we showed up. The resort was closed for about 10 days prior do to the storm. They had to dig out the lift at the top bowl! We needed a snorkel all week. Ignore the dates on the pics they are wrong. You can see the bottom half of the lift behind us in the last pic, it puts it into perspective.

Is that jason in the last pix lower right hand side?

[Burrrr]

Is that jason in the last pix lower right hand side?

Nope, thats me.

[macmahoooon]

http://www.snow.co.nz/clients/snow/photogallery/images/986.jpg

Craigieburn was my first experience with a nutcracker when I went to NZ, and its one hell of a ride. Had no problems with it but man its scary as to be whipping by the pulleys with your fingers inches away

[SailCat]

http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd186/SailCat_photo/Griz1a.jpg
Grizzley chair at Bear Valley 3/2/07
This was the first day the lift was open last year.
Many huge grins at the bottom that morning.

[pOLLEn]

the ride to Peak - ski WHISTLER!!!

[Tips^Up]

Bunny hill lift at Sundown. Not the most stellar lift there but I really like the mid-western sunset.
http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd147/greenson14s/IMGP01812.jpg
A little more steepness can be found under the Pali at A-Basin
http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd147/greenson14s/IMGP09252.jpg
Pour out a little liquor for the tram
http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd147/greenson14s/JacksonTrip090.jpg

[CDubz]

another wicked thread! i love this site!

[Feral]

[QUOTE=skea 457;318610]http://www.snow.co.nz/clients/snow/photogallery/images/986.jpg[/QUO

Either Mt Olympus, broken river or Craigieburn but I will go with Mt Olympus

[450rider]

i know its been posted, but i still love this sketchy old lift

http://la-grave.com/images/en-images/09.jpg
(la grave)

[Buttepacker]

Red in Rossland, BC last year.

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e209/mtnbikinbryno/IMGP0320.jpg

[powder_prophet]

Panorama lift at Monarch.

http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee133/powderprophet/IMG_1205.jpg

[mjskibum]

Lift six at Breck.

[tomas tequila]

Nostalgia = Old P-dog chair at the Bird late 70's to mid 80's, pre brutal grooming, (they winch silverfox now ferchrissakes). It was almost an event unto itself while the rest fought for pow--bump skier ruled on Peruvian. Stu O'Brien (RIP buddy), Jonjo and Christy too, Dean the Machine J-Dog (how many patrollers ski bumps all day on days off?), GE Joe and Cubby, (aka superchunk), The Wilson girls from the Steakpit, Jen was often with Greta("Liners" is keeping Stu company) later on a teenage chick named Ulmer showed up and willed herself into a world class bump skier...Rick Shaner, Mikey Grey, Timmy the bump fag. Alison Brown...

...the list goes on the chair is gone and who hung the rubber chicken from tower 4 every time there was a bump contest?

[ex-powderbroker]

any day it runs is good enough for me:

http://www.chairlift.org/pics/sb/cr1.jpg

[hitmanbob]

http://hphotos-snc1.fbcdn.net/hs027.snc1/2395_1105623563505_1314261737_303012_1989_n.jpghtt p://hphotos-snc1.fbcdn.net/hs027.snc1/2395_1105623603506_1314261737_303013_2306_n.jpg

It will be a sad day if the master development plan ever gets the funding it needs. It may improve flow, but fuck is this building nostalgic

[deh310]

http://www.gasolinealleyantiques.com/images/Historical%20Page/alyeska1.jpg

[Liveezy]

http://www.champery.com/Images/Chavanette_small.jpg

[unfunkyufo]

https://www.tetongravity.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=380&pictureid=2120

http://photos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v2129/124/30/568827503/n568827503_1417260_7462.jpg

[MyMaserati]

http://www.porterstahoe.com/uploaded_images/miked.JPG

[Breakwater]

1234567

1234567

[mfkracing]

Silverton Mountain 58" day in 2009.

105806

[userA]

i like to look t this thread when it isn't snowing much.
sometimes it helps

[zartagen]

Chair 17 at Vail last year.

https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/179011_868984057045_47271_n.jpg

I love that chair and will miss it when Vail trashes it for an unnecessary high speed quad.

[austnappies]

Why you love and will be misses this chair 17, hmmmm.... any memorable moments with this chair?






:confused:
Kaitlyn Lansell
Nappies Australia (http://www.modern-clothnappies.com.au/modern-cloth-nappies-australia.htm) and Australian Nappies (http://www.modern-clothnappies.com.au/modern-cloth-nappies-australia.htm), Product Supervisor
Townsville, Queensland

[Buster Highmen]

http://www.tgrmedia.com/i.ashx?i=http://media.kickstatic.com/kickapps/images/75233/photos/PHOTO_15835986_75233_7435673_ap.jpg&w=640&h=0

[jcnoble5]

MRG '07

108149

[latzz]

Italian side of Chmonix...

http://cbshredbetty.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/italy-first-days-269.jpg

Alagna - Italy (Funivia Bocchetta delle Pisse-Punta Indren )

http://www.funivie.org/funigallery/albums/userpics/indren~0.jpg

Lets zoom out...

http://www.trincerone.com/archive/gressoney-0204/Gressoney-B-05.jpg

some more..

http://www.trincerone.com/archive/alagna/cresta-rossa/cresta-rossa-alt.jpg

too bad this lift closed in like 2008 or somtn

Domolites - Itly

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/39565/funivia.jpg

And finally..

http://en.graubuenden.ch/typo3temp/pics/samnaun_doppelstockbahn_SAM2153_ba9781960a.jpg

:)

[latzz]

Italian side of Chmonix...

http://cbshredbetty.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/italy-first-days-269.jpg

Alagna - Italy (Funivia Bocchetta delle Pisse-Punta Indren )

http://www.funivie.org/funigallery/albums/userpics/indren~0.jpg

Lets zoom out...

http://www.trincerone.com/archive/gressoney-0204/Gressoney-B-05.jpg

some more..

http://www.trincerone.com/archive/alagna/cresta-rossa/cresta-rossa-alt.jpg

too bad this lift closed in like 2008 or somtn

Domolites - Itly

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/39565/funivia.jpg

And finally..

http://en.graubuenden.ch/typo3temp/pics/samnaun_doppelstockbahn_SAM2153_ba9781960a.jpg

:)

[irati]

wow, it's very nice to open this topic. I was born and grew up in a tropical country, where i just see snow on TV or through pic like that. It's a chance for me to open my eyes when i join access this forum .

[Buster Highmen]

That was such an insane lift:
http://www.trincerone.com/archive/alagna/cresta-rossa/cresta-rossa-alt.jpg

The old guy that ran it had hands that looked like wood burls. It creaked and moaned as you rode it. An looking up at the icefalls above you one the traverse (The Balma?): they don't make skiing like that anywhere but Yurp.

[BFD]

not an engineering marvel or spectacular. However the Mt Eyak chair in the winter of 2011-2012 needs a place here.
exit tunnel
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj270/leopow/winter%202012/winter2012005.jpg
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj270/leopow/winter%202012/mounyeyak004.jpg
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj270/leopow/winter%202012/mounyeyak006.jpg

[Alaskan Rover]

http://www.porterstahoe.com/uploaded_images/miked.JPG

Ha ha ha......WTF????

That's about the funniest pic I've seen in some time!!!!!

--

[SkeezeBall]

Ah yes Skyline lift at Vail. My buddy has a pic of this too but his includes about 100 people in line with their phone out taking pictures of this guy. I heard Vail hooked him up for his troubles...

Or maybe he just sued their pants off for a nice chunk of change

[chewie]

http://i.imgur.com/Cy6SL.jpg