Guess the ski area

[skiNEwhere]

OK, If anyone can get this without cheating I will be AMAZED
, so don't look at the imbedded comment

Both pictures are from the same place

 

[castlerock]

How about Dizin in Iran?

I have a close friend that left Iran several years after the revolution. I have never been but the view matched his description. Way above timberline, great terrain, and antiquated lifts. So I googled up some photos and saw the gondola and chair adjacent to each other....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dizin

 

[skiNEwhere]

You have got to be kidding me..........Wow, good on ya, I thought that one was going to be going on a while.

Anyone skiied there?

It's only 4 bucks for a lift ticket so if you're in the area for some reason, I think it would be worth the money.

 

[castlerock]

I recall a magazine article

A few years ago Powder magazine (I think) had an article on a trip to Dizin and some other area in Iran....I'll bet it would be tough for you to get there (at least flying commercial) today anyway. I'm not sure how many tour groups are organizing Fallujah>Teheran trips!

 

[skiNEwhere]

I came across this one on the internet, but it didn't say where it was from, so if anyone knows, speak up!

 

[SkiDork]

sideways chairs. Interesting

 

[Birdman829]

I've heard that in the southern hemisphere water spins the opposite way down the drain. Perhaps their chairlifts are sideways? Therefore I'm guessing someplace in NZ or Chile

 

[bvibert]

sideways chairs. Interesting

I saw that too, must be hard to unload with skis on. Of course the riders in the pic aren't wearing skis so maybe you aren't meant to ride that lift with skis...

 

[SkiDork]

maybe the chairs somehow turn after loading, and again before unloading?

 

[bvibert]

It's Snow (Sněžka) Mountain in the Czech Republic

Check out the gallery for more pics of the same lift:
http://www.snezkalanovka.cz/galerie.php?lang=3&ro=1

 

[bvibert]

maybe the chairs somehow turn after loading, and again before unloading?

It does look like they could rotate.

 

[Big Game]

I think the biggest clue is the chair number appears to be 36. So that rules out all countries with non-arabic numbers. So the mountain is definitely in the Roman Empire.

Also, steel wire was not lightweight or strong enough until 1754 or so. So then this picture was taken sometime between then and now.

But modern color photography wasn't widespread until the 1930's And judging by the saturation (and hue --- never forget the hue), I would say this pic was taken definitely post-war.

The people look old. So that means the picture was not taken sometime in the future in a society that once people reach the age of 30, a jewel in the palm of their hand begins to blink and they enter "carousel" so they can make an effort to reincarnate.

So our time frame is somewhere between now and Sept. 2, 1945.

That's all I got for now.

 

[skiNEwhere]

ok bvibert, could you divulge to the rest of us HOW YOU FIGURED THAT OUT???

And for extra credit, tell me who makes that lift

 

[bvibert]

ok bvibert, could you divulge to the rest of us HOW YOU FIGURED THAT OUT???

And for extra credit, tell me who makes that lift

I cheated a little...

The file name of the picture is "snezka80.jpg", so I Googled "snezka" and found a Wikipedia page on the mountain (which is half in Poland too). The Wikipedia page had a link to the website I linked to earlier which has photos of the chair in question.

I have no idea who made the lift, but I'm sure it could be found...

 

[Birdman829]

Cheater :roll: We need to start uploading pics to photobucket and giving them a generic name.

 

[bvibert]

Cheater :roll: We need to start uploading pics to photobucket and giving them a generic name.

Most people in this thread do give their pics generic file names just for that reason. Llamborghinii didn't, I guess because he didn't even know where it was from...

I came across this one on the internet, but it didn't say where it was from, so if anyone knows, speak up!

I was merely using all clues available to me to answer the question...

 

[skiNEwhere]

Take a stab at these. The bottom 2 are from the same place

 

[roark]

Mount Snow?

 

[AMAC2233]

The bottom ones are from Blue Hills ski area in Canton, MA.

 

[Marc]

Hahahaha..... page *69*


Heh. Sweeeeet.