Most Disliked Lifts

[skiadikt]

Rountabout is fun. You don't need to ride the Southridge to ski it though. Actually, do you need to ride Southridge to ski anything?

Southridge is really a love/hate thing for me. The left turn is cool, but it's another "lift to nowhere" that happens to take the long way to get there.

true you can access the southridge trails from other lifts but if you don't ride the southridge triple back up, you're forced to ski the fallsbrook trail, a long, flat green to the base of bear. then you'd have to take 2 lifts to access those trails again.

 

[skibum1321]

The old Big Spruce Double,froze my rear off many a day to get the powder while everybody else was runing laps over at Mansfield.
The old double at Jay was always a cold ride also.

Big Pig was great. There was never one up at the summit and you could always find fresh pow for a while after a storm. Slow, yes - bad lift, no.

 

[SkiDork]

Rountabout is fun. You don't need to ride the Southridge to ski it though. Actually, do you need to ride Southridge to ski anything?

Southridge is really a love/hate thing for me. The left turn is cool, but it's another "lift to nowhere" that happens to take the long way to get there.

If you could get off at midstation, South Ridge would be awesome!

 

[skiNEwhere]

Summit triple at Attitash
Gondi at Loon (nothing much I like at Loon though anyway)

I definitely agree with you on attitash, I was wondering why they didn't just put in a HSQ. But look at their map, they only have one intermediate trail. And that trail is icy enough at the end of the day with its current triple. Look at Ascutney, they added a HSQ a few years ago, and they only had 2 trails open at the top, a double black, and an intermediate, that trail was a solid sheet of ice by the end of the day. Piss poor planning on their part ( I just looked at their trail map, I see that they have added another intermediate trail from the top.

How can you hate the south ridge triple. I know if you skied at Killington when you were a kid you were just dying to go on that. Yea it is cold and takes awhile but what other lift provides more amusement than that?

When the sunrise lift operated from the bottom, man that thing took forever......But it was good to go because we didn't have to drive all the way up killington road, and no one really skiied in that area.

The old lynx double at killington, not only was it slow, but it was having serious mechanical issues. One time when I was there, a few minutes after I got off of it, the line fell off of its sheaves. They couldn't fix it and they had to maunally load everyone off the lift, chair by chair. I wish I was on the lift though, they got 3 free days of skiing:razz:

 

[sledhaulingmedic]

Ah yeah, I remember many a sunny WARM days skiing at Sunrise. I wish they would have kept it running at least on weekends. Let's hope if they ever decide to put that area back in, its still possible.

Unfortunately, my understanding is that the sun has set on Sunrise. The land was promised to be converted back to "wilderness" in exchange for additional Act 250 permitting. Just what K needs, more beds, less skiing.

 

[skiNEwhere]

Unfortunately, my understanding is that the sun has set on Sunrise. The land was promised to be converted back to "wilderness" in exchange for additional Act 250 permitting. Just what K needs, more beds, less skiing.

What is your source on this?

 

[56fish]

Sterling double - not a joy. GRF (Green Mountain Freezer) at Jay can be unpleasant.

 

[mlctvt]

Any lift at mount snow --Funny too because its ASCs most profitable mountain yet they have not done any improvements there since the Reagan administration--ever ride the sunrise quad when its blowin 25+ out of the north---gouging my eyes out with a spoon would be more enjoyable

The Sunbrook lift is considered "the slowest lift in the east" it's so painfull to ride because you could swear you could walk up the mountain faster, but there may be an improvement this year. My friend who works at the mountain said they're removing every other chair and increasing the lift speed by 50%. There's seldom a line there anyway so removing every other chair shouldn't hurt too bad.

 

[Paul]

I don't mind the summit triple at Attitash, like Lambo said, there's only 3 trails from the top, and 2 of them both lead to NW passage. The slow trip keeps the crowds (and there usually aren't too many) off the trails.

My vote goes to the Gondi at Stratton, pointless (rather just take American Express to Ursa Express) gets hot in there, and usually end-up with asshats as companions. At least on a lift, I can look straight ahead, pretend to be cold, and ignore them.

 

[skiNEwhere]

I don't know why I didn't think of this one before.

The Devil's Fiddle Quad. Ya know why? In all the years I've been to Killington, I have never seen that chair move an inch. If they aren't gonna use it why not just get rid of it, or stick it elsewhere on the mountain.

 

[ckofer]

One of the worst implemented lifts is the Tiger Triple at Gunstock:

It's best value is when it's running fast but it requires diligence in loading folks more than ever (fixed-grip, short turn) and the off-load area is horrible for snowboarding. I both ride and ski. Simply put, you should have a comfortable area to glide away from the lift.This one drops hard to the right. The problem is the worst when it's hardpack/icy and busy.

 

[Skier75]

I think one of the worst at Sunday River would be the South Ridge Triple or Spruce Peak Triple, they are pretty slow, cold rides.....

 

[maplevalleymaster]

I feel the same way about the South Ridge Triple at K. If it wasn't for the left turn I would never go on it either. I agree with having to take the two lifts at the base is annoying at Okemo. I have no idea why they planned it that way.

 

[roark]

Mount Snow Summit Local... only because its a FG lift right next to a HS lift... so you feel like you're going extra sloooow and it's almost always rediculously windy blowing right into your face. Crappy lift. It always has no line for a reason.

I enjoy riding that lift while watching the quad stop 6-7 times. Seriously, I don't think I've ever ridden the quad without it stopping. I almost always get up the hill quicker on the old local when you figure in lift lines and stoppage. Plus I get more time for snacks, drink, whatever on the way up. The Snow lift system is pretty silly - almost all the lifts going to essentially the same place...:x

 

[KevinF]

The summit triple at Attitash -- the thing just c-r-a-w-l-s, and there are some nice trails off the top. I agree though that it's nice to not have crowds up there.

The lifts that serve the beginner area at Okemo. Thank God you only have to ride those things once a day.

The old summit chair at Spruce Mountain at Stowe. You could die of old age on that thing. They replaced it a year or two ago.

And I know that this is the Northeast skiing and snowboarding forum, but the Challenger chair at Big Sky in Montana takes the cake. No safety bar, and you are waaayyyyy up there at times. :-o And the one time I rode it we got off at the top and were immediately greeted by a "Warning! Icy conditions! Falls will result in death and/or uncontrollable slides". They weren't kidding. Steep icy bumps the whole way down through the bowl (that's the only way down -- the lift takes you to the top of Challenger Bowl). Man, I was glad to get out of there.

 

[bill-now]

I dislike any lift where you can't sit. That includes ALL Pomas, T-bars, and especially the Cabriolet lift at Moutain Creek.

 

[Lostone]

I hate trams. I'm thinking of the one at Jay, but I hate the idea.

You wait at the bottom until they have enough people, then get jammed in like sardines, some of which make sardines smell pretty good.uke: Then They bring you up to the top, where you are let out in a crowd.

Is there a better way to ruin a skiing experience? :evil:

 

[Newpylong]

I don't know why I didn't think of this one before.

The Devil's Fiddle Quad. Ya know why? In all the years I've been to Killington, I have never seen that chair move an inch. If they aren't gonna use it why not just get rid of it, or stick it elsewhere on the mountain.

The last two years they have been running it only on weekends, but its usually empty. I agree, I rode it only because I had never ridden it before. Its location is very poor (it really only serves the Fiddle), either remove it or put it somewhere else. The liftline would be gnarly with the towers removed.

 

[Newpylong]

Unfortunately, my understanding is that the sun has set on Sunrise. The land was promised to be converted back to "wilderness" in exchange for additional Act 250 permitting. Just what K needs, more beds, less skiing.

Unless this has happened since last year, this is untrue. I discussed thsi with the lift manager at Killington last season and originally the lift was installed as a feeder to the parker's gore area (to the skier's right of South Ridge). That area never got developed, tree huggers, bears, etc. Killington swapped that land for some land at the base of Killington or the Interconnect (if I still had the email I could confirm). He told me they closed it because of its low elevation, they didnt'w ant to staff the lift, no one used it, they didn't want to patrol the area, or staff the lodge. Lame if you ask me. That was part of the mountain, staff it. Nothing like actually REMOVING ski terrain while others are adding.

 

[snoseek]

on a cold day when most people steer clear of cannon, I go and ride the tram half empty all day long. It also gives you the chance to run in and warm up while you wait for the next car.