New T-Bar

[Johnskiismore]

I never thought that I would ever read about a 'new' T-Bar being installed!

T-Bar

 

[Hawkshot99]

I really enjoy surface lifts.

 

[millerm277]

Nice to hear.. Actually, while it's not northeast, Kirkwood is putting in both a T-bar and a Poma this year.

 

[snoseek]

surface lifts definately serve a function. I wish there were more in windy exposed areas (top of Cannon, Jay, ect...) . Top of Saddleback will be closed a ton more with a chair, plus the masses will ski it off quicker.

 

[riverc0il]

I drive by Northeast Slopes to get to the MRV. Keep saying I will stop by there for a few turns. Maybe after hours earned turns on a drive home some day perhaps. Tough to make that a destination within a destination but still get enough skiing time in at the Glen to make it worth the drive on the same trip.

 

[skidmarks]

T bars are great

I used to love the surface lift they had at Sugarbush (North Lynx) it was perfect on windy days. I think it was a Poma but I'm not sure.

I also have found memories of Mt Tom's Upper T Bar. However I do remember it breaking down once. We were stuck on it for almost 45 minutes before it started back up.

 

[wa-loaf]

However I do remember it breaking down once. We were stuck on it for almost 45 minutes before it started back up.

Why would you stay on a broken down t-bar for 45 mins?

 

[skidmarks]

An Old Joke

Why would you stay on a broken down t-bar for 45 mins?

Got you with an Old Joke!!!

 

[thetrailboss]

I figured it was NE Slopes...glad to hear that they are adding that T-Bar and that there is some more terrain being added as well.

 

[bvibert]

Cool! I haven't ridden a surface lift in a long time.

 

[prisnah]

That is a sweet website. Thanks

 

[wa-loaf]

Got you with an Old Joke!!!

Doh!

 

[ski_resort_observer]

Some pics from Northeast Slopes last spring

 

[dmc]

I don't understand the nostalgia...

TBars/Pomas/JBars/etc... pretty much sukc.. Unless it's the only thing that the terrain can support..

 

[bvibert]

Awesome pictures. I love the groomer barn.

 

[Beetlenut]

I don't understand the nostalgia...

TBars/Pomas/JBars/etc... pretty much sukc.. Unless it's the only thing that the terrain can support..

Spoken like a true knuckle-dragger! Come on, you can't remember back to when you were first learning, and had to use a rope tow or a T-bar? It's just an element of skiing that, like everything else these days, is becoming history before our eyes. I for one, would like my kids to ride a rope tow or T-bar, so they could experience what skiing was like back when I was a kid! Who knows, maybe then they'll appreciate the chair-ride more!

 

[WJenness]

Spoken like a true knuckle-dragger! Come on, you can't remember back to when you were first learning, and had to use a rope tow or a T-bar? It's just an element of skiing that, like everything else these days, is becoming history before our eyes. I for one, would like my kids to ride a rope tow or T-bar, so they could experience what skiing was like back when I was a kid! Who knows, maybe then they'll appreciate the chair-ride more!

I have a friend who broke a tooth in half when he got smacked in the face with the summit T-Bar at Saddleback last year (not the most coordinated fellow), I'm sure that that made him appreciate chair lifts more

-w

 

[dmc]

Spoken like a true knuckle-dragger! Come on, you can't remember back to when you were first learning, and had to use a rope tow or a T-bar? It's just an element of skiing that, like everything else these days, is becoming history before our eyes. I for one, would like my kids to ride a rope tow or T-bar, so they could experience what skiing was like back when I was a kid! Who knows, maybe then they'll appreciate the chair-ride more!

I skied many many years before I snowboarded...

I remember the rope tows of Ohio in 1976 and ruining my only pair of winter gloves... I remember taking the old poma up the northface at the Butte and having some gaper fall and slam into me... I remember the meathook at Fernie - with people getting dragged by their knees... I remember the death slog poma at Panorama that was so long my legs hurt by the end...

I am not nostalgic for that technology... I've live it... On skis and a board..

 

[wa-loaf]

I don't understand the nostalgia...

TBars/Pomas/JBars/etc... pretty much sukc.. Unless it's the only thing that the terrain can support..

I'm all for the strategically placed t-bar for accessing expert only terrain and in windy areas. I haven't been on anything too bad in the US, but there were a few t-bars in the alps that seemed like they were 5 miles long. Those I can live without.

 

[Beetlenut]

I skied many many years before I snowboarded...

I remember the rope tows of Ohio in 1976 and ruining my only pair of winter gloves... I remember taking the old poma up the northface at the Butte and having some gaper fall and slam into me... I remember the meathook at Fernie - with people getting dragged by their knees... I remember the death slog poma at Panorama that was so long my legs hurt by the end...

I am not nostalgic for that technology... I've live it... On skis and a board..

Yea, I knew you skiied before you boarded, just thought I'd cast a line out there and see what I could catch! Looks like I caught a wopper!! I use to live outside Dayton, OH. I remember riding rope tows, and by the end of the day your hand would just stay in a closed-grip position? I still like T-bars and Pomas as long as they're short, and access some good terrain.