What is your preferred method of installed lift service?

[bdfreetuna]

^^
Cool website, orangegondola.

 

[gregnye]

High Speed Quad all the way!!! I hate taking my ski's off, and the quad is the most efficient loading lift. If you don't believe how efficient it is, just watch people try to get on the 6-pack at Ragged! Usually 5 out of the 6 make it on the chair! Triple chairs are also not as cool because usually annoying people want to load 2 people on a 3 person lift when there is a huge line! A double naturally splits up a typical family of 4. But then it also depends on the lifty directing traffic.

 

[mister moose]

The original Pomalift. Fast, windproof, reliable, and there's never a line these days because so many don't know how to ride it.

 

[jimmywilson69]

T-Bar, Specifically the one on Peak 8 at Breckenridge. Man that's a leg burner, but it gets you to the goods!

 

[bvibert]

Single chair, or double.

 

[steamboat1]

T-Bar, Specifically the one on Peak 8 at Breckenridge. Man that's a leg burner, but it gets you to the goods!

Isn't that the one that makes a left turn?

 

[jimmywilson69]

yes it does make a left turn.

 

[ceo]

I'm a big fan of the old-school detachable Poma lifts. Only ones in the East I know of are at Burke and Killington. In Europe they're all over the place, self-serve (you ski through a wand that trips the release) and go around corners more often than not.

 

[Boston Bulldog]

Gondola for a quick way to get to trail pods and mountains, not for sking laps on(Whistlers Gondi's are great; fast, get you to the good terrain and have lifts paralleling for skiers doing laps instead of having to ride it again.)

High speed Quad for large trail pods, 1000 plus vertical. fast, easy to do laps on when not crowded

FG quads and doubles for smaller trail pods. This keeps the noobs away from the lesser known trails becasue all they want is an express, usually meaning better conditions.

One thing that really bugs me is HSQ's that are really short and unnescesary (Bretton Woods: Rosebrook Summit) Is it really worth all that money for a 20 second shorter lift ride?

 

[orangegondola]

^^
Cool website, orangegondola.

Thanks BD

 

[jrmagic]

that never happened.

lol good thing it didn't happen on the lift at Chamonix that smllytelly was talking about lol

 

[skiNEwhere]

Gotta appreciate the poma. When I was kid I used to like to wander in and out of the track, the lifties weren't very happy with that though.....

The hardest lift has got to be the poma at ski Dubai. Yes, ski Dubai. It whips you around a 90 degree corner. I wasn't expecting it as much as i should've, and the disc slid out from between my legs, you really got to hold on tight and anticipate it

 

[dmc]

Gotta appreciate the poma. When I was kid I used to like to wander in and out of the track, the lifties weren't very happy with that though.....

The hardest lift has got to be the poma at ski Dubai. Yes, ski Dubai. It whips you around a 90 degree corner. I wasn't expecting it as much as i should've, and the disc slid out from between my legs, you really got to hold on tight and anticipate it

We didn't use the poma at Ski Dubai.. Was that for park only?

 

[skiNEwhere]

We didn't use the poma at Ski Dubai.. Was that for park only?

The main lift was broken, the poma went to the "summit" as well, I think it's only open though when the chairlift is closed. If you look at My TR http://forums.alpinezone.com/showthread.php?114247-Ski-Dubai-09-7-2012 you can see it on the left

 

[skisheep]

HSQ all the way, once you get skis off for the gondi it's too much of a hassle. Exception for when it's howling wind or frigid, then gondi wins every time. Trams are just absurd, too low capacity and too many people

-skisheep

 

[dmc]

The main lift was broken, the poma went to the "summit" as well, I think it's only open though when the chairlift is closed. If you look at My TR http://forums.alpinezone.com/showthread.php?114247-Ski-Dubai-09-7-2012 you can see it on the left

Cool - just checked my pictures.. Wasn't open when we were there.. Wonder what would close that chair?

 

[skiNEwhere]

Cool - just checked my pictures.. Wasn't open when we were there.. Wonder what would close that chair?

High winds.

Or there not being a qualified lift mechanic for thousands of miles :-D

 

[spring_mountain_high]

i used to ski at a place in jersey called belle mt when i was in high school back in the 80's and they had an absolutely vicious rope tow...they also had a double chair but the tow was faster so we took that...one hand in front, one in back, poles tucked in and you'd have to adjust your grip slowly to grab it or go flying face first...it was great watching people learn to use it...i took a few spills learning myself...his thing was a real glove shredder, so much so that you'd buy a cheap pair just for this lift

 

[deadheadskier]

i used to ski at a place in jersey called belle mt when i was in high school back in the 80's and they had an absolutely vicious rope tow...they also had a double chair but the tow was faster so we took that...one hand in front, one in back, poles tucked in and you'd have to adjust your grip slowly to grab it or go flying face first...it was great watching people learn to use it...i took a few spills learning myself...his thing was a real glove shredder, so much so that you'd buy a cheap pair just for this lift

They used to have one of those where I learned to ski at Ward Hill in Mass. The thing flew. Also had the cheap gloves that I'd line with duck tape to use it.

 

[steamboat1]

High speed detachable, any weather. Oh, and run the thing at full speed, too.

Problem with high speed detachables is they often don't run in weather. Just this past Tuesday at K the only lifts running on the mountain in the morning were the older fixed grip chairs. Snowshed double, Snowdon triple & quad & the North Ridge triple. There was only one detachable lift running, the Snowdon poma. All the other high speed lifts didn't open till 11:00am because of icing problems. Worked out well for me because I was one of the first ones up the Superstar HSQ when it opened at 11. I had one run on a few inches of untracked creme cheese which was actually very nice. It was all tracked out already by the second run. Same thing happened with the lifts on Wednesday but it was the opposite. They had to close the high speed detachables in the afternoon because of icing problems.