What is your preferred method of installed lift service?

[Nick]

Installed being a permanent fixture on the mountain, so no climbing skins / helicopter / CAT served skiing included here. This is lifts / tows / gondolas / trams.

If you need to qualify your answer based on conditions ("On a spring day" vs. "On a subzero day"), that's OK.

I'm not thinking of a specific resort as I think we've had that thread already although some resorts do have their unique lifts so we can include those (MRG Single, Sunday River Chondola, Mt Snow Bubble 6-pack, etc.)

 

[deadheadskier]

the one with no lines that gets me where I want to go quickly

 

[millerm277]

General: HSQ - Gets me up the mountain fast, I don't have to take my skis off. I hate Gondolas unless we're talking a >15 minute ride.
Specific: FG Doubles running at max speed seem pretty much perfect for restricted terrain. Natural snow areas, areas with only a few trails, etc. Keeps the crowds down, and doesn't take too long....the extra 25% line speed over a quad makes a difference.

 

[Hawkshot99]

Magic carpet!

 

[Terry]

Fixed grip lift with the carpet loader. Runs fast, inexpensive (compared to a HSQ).

 

[Smellytele]

It matters. Weather Freezing cold - Tram, Gondola. Windy - tow. Blue bird day - chair.
If a chair feeds a small amount of trails then a double. If a larger amount of trails a high speed quad is nice. With my family of 5 on a non busy day a six pack comes in handy. :-D
So if the mountain has thought things out and has enough terrain it should have a mixture of them all.

 

[Sky]

I like the tram @ Cannon. :>

Otherwise, I like the HSQ option. Fast, easy on/off....nice nice.

 

[ScottySkis]

At non busy hill double is great, in the West high speed quad.

 

[Nick]

generally on nice days i'm on with the HSQ also. Although I will say the fast uphill capacity also does typically mean more crowded downhills (depending on the options from the unloading area). In those times; it can be nice to have slower lifts or smaller lifts, you wait more; but have a less crowded ski down. I hit MRG for the first time last year and the lift took FOREVER but it was awesome to feel like you were the only one coming down the mountain.

 

[Geoff]

Ignoring cost, my preferred method:

 

[andyzee]

Magic carpet!

Yes, I too like the magic carpet ride

 

[Nick]

Yeah that's why had to modify the thread to state fixed installs who wouldn't pick a helicopter haha

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[Warp Daddy]

At Tremblant where it is colder than a well diggers ass ........ The Gondi
anywhere else ......... The shortest lifeline

But my all time favorite "lift mechanism ". Boobies. Big ones :beer: Sorry ladies , I' ll. go quietly to my corner and duck the incoming , but damn I can't lie :dunce:

 

[Sky]

Hahahaha....WD in the gutter. Great to see your still "interested". :>

 

[jrmagic]

At Tremblant where it is colder than a well diggers ass ........ The Gondi
anywhere else ......... The shortest lifeline

But my all time favorite "lift mechanism ". Boobies. Big ones :beer: Sorry ladies , I' ll. go quietly to my corner and duck the incoming , but damn I can't lie :dunce:

LMAO Warp playing the trump card FTW:razz:

I've never been a gondi fan. I like being outside yes even when its cold so give me HSQs for accessing different sections of a big mountain and give me a FG double or triple for the smaller trail pods.

 

[Warp Daddy]

OH HELL yeah Sky !!! Use it or loose it don't just apply to skiing my man , remember just bcuz there's snow on da roof don't mean there A,int a fire ragin in da furnace hehehehe

 

[Bene288]

J-bar

Just kidding. I'll take a double or a quad over a gondola/tram any day. I don't understand why people cram into a gondola when it's sub-zero or puking snow. You'll just be skiing down the mountain when you get to the top. I'd rather dress appropriately and stay acclimated to the weather. I think it's Gore that has an old fixed grip double chair. There's just something about that lift..

 

[Cannonball]

Smoke Bubbles. Wish we had more (any?) in the East.

 

[ScottySkis]

Smoke Bubbles. Wish we had more (any?) in the East.

Mount Snow has the bubble.

 

[steamboat1]

I miss the entertainment factor you used to get watching people fall off t-bars-j-bars, poma's & rope tows. Very few of them left.

The detachable high speed triple at Gore is an interesting lift.