Favorite Chair Lift?

[billski]

whatever lift I am on.

As long as it's running?

 

[snowmonster]

Favorites:

Jordan Bowl (SR) -- access to Blind Ambition and Wizard's Gulch, some crowding but not ridiculous
Timberline (SL) -- access to the snowfields, great views
Single Chair (MRG) -- unique, allows me quiet time to collect my thoughts, access to great terrain

Least Favorite:

Green Mountain Flyer (Jay) - access to great terrain but way too cold especially after you clear THAT ridge

 

[Geoff]

My favorite lift used to be the old Killington gondola. Best lift ever for having sex since it was so slow. You could also typically count on it stopping 4 or 5 times to help prolong things.

 

[drjeff]

Favorite: The tram at Snowbird. Just an awesome iconic lift that services some serious kick a$$ terrain and on a clear day has great views out all sides of it!

Just gotta be carefull if the windows are up and a few folks pigged out at one of the mexican buffets places down in SLC the night before

 

[bvibert]

Red Chair at Magic gets the award for Most Uptime on a Windy Day.

Good one, that's a runner up for me.

 

[riverc0il]

East: MRG single.

16 posts before someone mentions The Single :-o

The Single is really the only stand out for me. Zoomer at Cannon and Jet at Jay are two of my other favs, both Dopp triples servicing great trail pods. Short vertical but lots of great laps. For doubles, I would go with the Red Chair at Magic and the summit double at Black, NH. Burke has the best poma. Quads? Eh. Guess you have to go with the Forerunner at Stowe. The Wildcat Express always pisses me off because there is so little terrain right off the quad that snow conditions get crappy really quickly. I wish they had installed the high speeder where the Tomcat is and made the summit lift a mid-mountain fixed grip lift. Gondolas I could do without and I rarely ride the trams at my home mountains.

So, yea, The Single.

 

[eastcoastpowderhound]

the brand spankin new tram at Jackson Hole. Fast, an i-pod doc for the operator, and access to some of the best skiing in north america.

at the home mtn, Sunday River, tie for the Oz Quad and White Heat Quad...no lines at either one even on a busy Sat and access to the better terrain SR has to offer. I guess the Heat quad would win out due to the entertainment factor of watching people in the clutches of fear skid and flail over the headwall on white heat...classic lemming trail.

 

[ta&idaho]

I like 'em slow.

Out West I'd probably go with Chair 22 at Mammoth. Pre-HSQ, I would have said the Collins Lift at Alta.

I have more limited experience in the Northeast, but I'm a big fan of the Bear Mountain Quad at Killington. Honorable mention: Valley House Double at Sugarbush.

 

[marcski]

I like 'em slow.

Out West I'd probably go with Chair 22 at Mammoth. Pre-HSQ, I would have said the Collins Lift at Alta.

I have more limited experience in the Northeast, but I'm a big fan of the Bear Mountain Quad at Killington. Honorable mention: Valley House Double at Sugarbush.

I might be in the minority..but I like the new Collins lift. You can now just take one lift and do laps on the backside, eagles' nest, germ, freds, suzie's trees etc. etc. etc. So many more options off that lift. I do acknowledge the place tracks out much faster now than with the old lifts.

 

[ta&idaho]

I might be in the minority..but I like the new Collins lift. You can now just take one lift and do laps on the backside, eagles' nest, germ, freds, suzie's trees etc. etc. etc. So many more options off that lift. I do acknowledge the place tracks out much faster now than with the old lifts.

Yeah, its definitely still an amazing area to ski, but I have really vivid memories of the old Germania lift. What a great place.

 

[SKIQUATTRO]

SMUGGS- Madonna Summit (steep, rocky, great views of Stowe)
MRG-Single
Park City-the one that goes into town
Deer Valley- Empire (nuts that most west chairs dont have saftey bar)

MT Snow: the summit lift back in the 70's with the bug eye'd shield

 

[Newpylong]

The Peak chair at Whistler has some scary exposures.

Scariest ride in North America bar none!

http://pics.livejournal.com/skidream/pic/000b15dc/s320x240

 

[Beast_Ed]

Mark Jane 6-Pack

"Super Gauge Express"

http://ww2.skiwinterpark.com/downloads/0809_trailmap_lowres.pdf

 

[Johnskiismore]

The bus at Powder Mountain, Utah, picks you up at the road after skiing awesome terrain!

 

[jerryg]

Gunbarrel Quad at Heavenly - 1800 feet of bumped vert in 4 minutes - so steep!
KT-22 Quad at Squaw - words don't do justice to the lines you can scout from that ride.
Spillway East at SL - It's old and slow, but it delivers great terrain yet horrible when it's crowded.
White Heat Quad at SR - The slow ride is good between runs.
OZ Quad at SR - When there's snow in OZ it's the best place to be.
Mott Canyon Double at Heavenly - Perfect view of the chutes and god lines on the slow ride up from the canyon floor.

 

[skidmarks]

Lucky You

My favorite lift used to be the old Killington gondola. Best lift ever for having sex since it was so slow. You could also typically count on it stopping 4 or 5 times to help prolong things.

 

[skidmarks]

My favorite lift used to be the old Killington gondola. Best lift ever for having sex since it was so slow. You could also typically count on it stopping 4 or 5 times to help prolong things.

The old Sugarbush gondola would have been more exciting for sex! You'd never know if it was going to fall off at the wrong time.........

 

[icedtea]

Pico - Outpost is a classic.

 

[Telemechanic]

The Peak chair at Whistler has some scary exposures.

Scariest ride in North America bar none!

http://pics.livejournal.com/skidream/pic/000b15dc/s320x240

Its not the same kind of scary but wait until you look down through the glass floor from a Peak to Peak Gondola over Fitzsimmons Creek!

 

[marcski]

Hey now....that's the Old Squaw Gondola, not the old K one!