Guess the ski area

[thetrailboss]

Don't know where it is, but that's a Yan triple. Do I get any points for that? :wink:

That looks like a Hall/CTEC lift to me judging by the chairs, towers, and terminal.

 

[jerryg]

Don't know where it is, but that's a Yan triple. Do I get any points for that? :wink:

Which is to say it's probably broken down or out of service. :lol: Seriously though, that looks like a cool base area.

 

[jerryg]

Yes, but where?;-)

Access road just below the base between the Superquad and Bucksaw.

 

[loafer89]

Access road just below the base between the Superquad and Bucksaw.

No, but close enough, it's West Mountain X-cut:grin:

 

[jerryg]

That looks like a Hall/CTEC lift to me judging by the chairs, towers, and terminal.

Gonna have to go with BushMogulMaster on this one. Chairs and terminal look very like Yan. Towers do not, but this lift could be a refit. Most of the CTEC chairs I've seen have foot rests.

 

[loafer89]

How's about this one:

Sugarbush North?

 

[BushMogulMaster]

Gonna have to go with BushMogulMaster on this one. Chairs and terminal look very like Yan. Towers do not, but this lift could be a refit. Most of the CTEC chairs I've seen have foot rests.

Hmmmmm... on second thought, it looks more like Borvig based on the bottom drive and the terminal shape. Most Yans of that era were top drive.

But if it's not Borvig, it's Yan.

Of course, it could be a mut. Like a CTEC/Poma/Borvig/Yan/Hall/Stadeli/Carlevario Savio :wink: :lol:

 

[BushMogulMaster]

Sugarbush North?

That'd be right.

Here's another one:

 

[loafer89]

Hmmmmm... on second thought, it looks more like Borvig based on the bottom drive and the terminal shape. Most Yans of that era were top drive.

But if it's not Borvig, it's Yan.

Of course, it could be a mut. Like a CTEC/Poma/Borvig/Yan/Hall/Stadeli/Carlevario Savio :wink: :lol:

I am not sure who made the chairlift in the picture, but it has been rebuilt.

This will probably give it away, since this is a tough one, but a person was killed while riding this lift.

 

[thetrailboss]

Well, let's guess what ski area it is and then look it up/ask them! I still think it is a rebuilt...the chairs look like CTEC Triple Chairs...with no foot rests. The base terminal looks like a CTEC model. Similar to their newer base terminals. Compare to this shot from CTEC:

And the base terminal:

 

[BushMogulMaster]

Well, let's guess what ski area it is and then look it up/ask them! I still think it is a rebuilt...the chairs look like CTEC Triple Chairs...with no foot rests. The base terminal looks like a CTEC model. Similar to their newer base terminals. Compare to this shot from CTEC:

You could be right. Let's wait and find out for sure!

The towers are definitely older. I'm still thinking Borvig drive, but I could just as easily be wrong. It does look an awful lot like that ad you posted.

 

[loafer89]

One last hint picture:

 

[SkiingInABlueDream]

I skied the place ALOT in the 80's and 90's, and it is a great mountain that is unfortunately located in Killington's shadow. I remember some great powder days on 49er and Pike and in Birches Glade. I will never forget riding the summit poma, I thought that lift was going to kill me it was so steep.

Sorry to dig up an old post, but does anyone have pictures of the old summit poma at Pico? (or the summit double?) I too skied Pico (and Kton) a lot as a kid (in the 80's) and I used to LOVE that poma ride!! But the eternal liftlines for the summit double sucked!

 

[loafer89]

Sorry to dig up an old post, but does anyone have pictures of the old summit poma at Pico? (or the summit double?) I too skied Pico (and Kton) a lot as a kid (in the 80's) and I used to LOVE that poma ride!! But the eternal liftlines for the summit double sucked!

I might have pictures of the poma, but I am not sure and I would have to look through my collection of photographs.

 

[Zand]

Trailboss- First big picture in the Doppelmayr paste is Lake Compounce.

 

[SkiingInABlueDream]

very cool thread! I'll throw one in:
[edit: huh, I didnt mean for it to be thumbnail size...]

 

[loafer89]

very cool thread! I'll throw one in:
[edit: huh, I didnt mean for it to be thumbnail size...]

The treeline looks really high, so I am guessing somewhere in the Central Rockies or California/West Coast.

 

[jerryg]

One last hint picture:

Looks like the Sierras, which would bode well for the Yan lift theory.

Here is the base terminal for the Aurora Quad at Sunday River. (April 13, not less) This is a refit, but all Yan parts. I only know because Skip jumped into a thread on the SR forum a while back and informed me about the installation, which was done by SR, but overseen by a Yan engineer.

 

[thetrailboss]

Looks like the Sierras, which would bode well for the Yan lift theory.

Here is the base terminal for the Aurora Quad at Sunday River. (April 13, not less) This is a refit, but all Yan parts. I only know because Skip jumped into a thread on the SR forum a while back and informed me about the installation, which was done by SR, but overseen by a Yan engineer.

You're right. And to be fair, it appears that there are two different lifts in the Sierra picture. The one in this last picture is a Yan (closest to the camera). The one in the distance is a CTEC it appears/

 

[BushMogulMaster]

Good, good. I didn't think I was completely full of sh!t! Well, maybe :wink: