Chairlift Riddles

[loafer89]

Something at Mt Snow perhaps?

Nope not Mount Snow.

Another hint:

This lift has been replaced.

 

[loafer89]

I picked a good one.

Another Hint:

At the time I was constructed, I was the highest capacity lift of my day, and I had a line speed of 750 feet per minute.

 

[thetrailboss]

I picked a good one.

Another Hint:

At the time I was constructed, I was the highest capacity lift of my day, and I had a line speed of 750 feet per minute.

Hmmm....this is a good one. I was thinking it was the Slide Brook Express, but ASC has not really gone bankrupt.

750 fpm....probably an early HS lift of some kind. Now you say "bankrupt the company that designed it," is this the manufacturer of the lift or the company that owned the resort that had it installed?

 

[loafer89]

It bankrupted the manufacturer of the lift, though it really hurt the finances of the ski area installing it as well.

Another hint::smash:

It's not a HSQ:-D

 

[thetrailboss]

I know it!

I know it!

It was Carlevaro-Savio that went bankrupt building the original Killington Gondola...i.e. the one that ran from Route 4 to the Summit.

 

[thetrailboss]

Here is mine:

I was brought into this world in 1965 by PHB Hall. I was the mainstay of this ski area for quite some time. My linespeed was 620 fpm and I rose about 2400 vertical feet. I am still considered to be a legend. RIP 2000.

 

[loafer89]

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeessssssssssssssssssssssss

:beer:

Not a bad lift trivia question I think. The hard part was giving as few hints as possible without making it obvious. The lift manufacturer's name helped I think?

 

[loafer89]

Here is mine:

I was brought into this world in 1965 by PHB Hall. I was the mainstay of this ski area for quite some time. My linespeed was 620 fpm and I rose about 2400 vertical feet. I am still considered to be a legend. RIP 2000.

I would say the Sugarloaf Gondola, but the dates seem wrong for it to be that lift.

 

[kcyanks1]

Here is mine:

I was brought into this world in 1965 by PHB Hall. I was the mainstay of this ski area for quite some time. My linespeed was 620 fpm and I rose about 2400 vertical feet. I am still considered to be a legend. RIP 2000.

I've never been there so it's a wild guess, but is it Sugarloaf's gondola? I don't know when it was taken out or what company it was. But 2400' vertical limits the mountains it can be considerably, and I know SB's Gondola was gone way, way before then.

 

[thetrailboss]

I would say the Sugarloaf Gondola, but the dates seem wrong for it to be that lift.

Yes, Sugarloaf's gondola.

It was removed in 2000, but I just looked again and saw that it did not run after 1996.

 

[thetrailboss]

Here is the next one:

I was installed in 1968 or 1969 by Hall. My double chairs carried people for several years before I was retired. Since then, my towers have stood silent vigil over the remnants of my ski area. Though my cable has not moved in several years, this is not preventing people from visiting....

 

[loafer89]

Yes, Sugarloaf's gondola.

It was removed in 2000, but I just looked again and saw that it did not run after 1996.

Yes I took one of the last rides on the upper section in April 1996:-(

It was cool how the lift operator pulled on a cord/chain to connect the gondola car to the cable in the Gondi Mid-Station. It would be neat to have another gondola in it's place, especially on the -0F days during the winter.

I really miss that lift

 

[thetrailboss]

A great page on the Gondi.

 

[loafer89]

I visit that site quite a few times a year to look at all the old chairlifts. I also like to visit NELSAP from time to time. I was just talking with my wife about Bear Creek Mountain Club AKA Round Top, and how I remember when it was abandoned and I snowmobiled past a chairlift in the early 90's that had Birch and Maple trees growing up through the lift

 

[tree_skier]

Here is the next one:

I was installed in 1968 or 1969 by Hall. My double chairs carried people for several years before I was retired. Since then, my towers have stood silent vigil over the remnants of my ski area. Though my cable has not moved in several years, this is not preventing people from visiting....

Mittersill?

 

[tree_skier]

On the bankruptcy theme

I was installed by CTEC in 1986 replacing a T-bar. A good friend of mine did his managerial economics project (for his MBA) on my installation and trail work. His conclusion was that my installation would result in doom for my area. The area manager said it was a ski decision, not a business decision. Well business won and I now reside at a different area.

 

[thetrailboss]

Mittersill?

Yep.

 

[thetrailboss]

On the bankruptcy theme

I was installed by CTEC in 1986 replacing a T-bar. A good friend of mine did his managerial economics project (for his MBA) on my installation and trail work. His conclusion was that my installation would result in doom for my area. The area manager said it was a ski decision, not a business decision. Well business won and I now reside at a different area.

That would be the Triple at King Ridge.

 

[tree_skier]

That would be the Triple at King Ridge.

Yes

 

[Marc]

Yep.

Damnit, TB, Mittersill was probably the only one I could have guessed.


Notwithstanding the fact that the only reason I would have been able to guess it was from talking with you at the Cannon outting.