What Lifts Have You Ridden in their Debut Season?

[drjeff]

I know I'll forget a few, but here goes:
VT:

Mt Snow:
Yankee Clipper, Nitro Express, Canyon Express, Sunbrook Quad, Covered Bridge carpet, and a bunch of their reconfigurations of older lifts

Stratton: Gondola

Killington: Skyeship, K1, Needles Express, Superstar Express, Snowshed Express, Ramshead Express, Bear Mtn Quad, Snowdon Quad, Canyon Quad, Skyepeak quad

NY: Adironadack Express

NH:
Loon : Northpeak Triple (mid-80's old school stuff there )

Waterville: Quadzilla

Wildcat: Wildcat Express

Attitash: Flying Yankee, Bear peak Express, Abenaki Quad

ME:

Sunday River: White heat quad, white cap quad, Jordan Express, North peak express, Oz, Aurora quad

UT:
The Canyons: Tombstone 6 pack, Dreamscape, daybreak, Dreamcatcher, peak 5

Snowbird: Mineral basin

Deer Valley: Jordanelle Gondola, Sterling Express, Quincy Express, Ruby Express, Silver Strike Express, A couple of other to that by brain is blurring since DV always seem to and an express quad or two each year!

MA: Jiminy: Q1, Summit Triple (old school again! - I actually rode the old Mueller double with the side close saftey bars before the triple!)

Man, trying to remember almost 30 years of skiing and 30 years of new lifts is tough on the brain

 

[Greg]

• Berkshire Express at Jiminy
• North Peak Quad at Loon
• Highline Quad at Butternut
• Magic Carpet at Sundown

Gotta add a few:

• Widow White Quad at Jiminy
• Meadows Triple at Catamount

 

[bvibert]

I think that's the only one for me.

Oops, forgot one:

Sunny Spruce Quad at Stowe, might have even been the first day it was open IIRC.

 

[TwinTips21]

North Peak Express Quad at Ascutney

 

[Newpylong]

Jiminy Peak: Q1 and Berkshire Express

Mount Snow: Nitro and Canyon Express, Sunbrook Quad, reconfigured lifts.

Killington: Skyeship, Needle's/Northbrook Quads, K-1, Snowdon and Ram's Head Quads, Canyon Quad.

Sugarbush: Super Bravo and Gatehouse Quads, North Lynx Triple, Slidebrook, New Castlerock, Northridge Express, Whatever the piece of crap Quad at the bottom of North used to be called (sluggo?)? and the GMX reincarnation.

Pokemo; Jackson Gore lifts.

 

[from_the_NEK]

Sensation Quad at Stowe (Spruce PEak Summit lift)

I forgot one as well...

 

[threecy]

Mt Snow - Nitro Express
Berkshire East - Summit Triple
Berkshire East - Top Notch Double
Berkshire East - Bobcat Tow
Berkshire East - West Quad
Ragged Mountain - Summit Express
Gunstock - Panorama Express
Crotched Mountain - Summit Quad
Bretton Woods - Mt. Rosebrook Express
Bolton Valley - Vista Bowl

 

[ERJ-145CA]

Belleayre - Superchief detachable quad
Mt. Peter - Hailey's Comet

Both in the 2006-2007 season.

 

[Geoff]

Killington:
K1 gondola
Needles Eye HS quad
Rams Head HS quad
Snowshed HS quad
Superstar HS quad
Skyeship gondola
Snowdon quad (when they converted it from a double)
Bear quad (when they converted it from a triple)
Skye Peak quad
Devils Fiddle quad
Canyon quad
Northbrook quad
Southridge triple

The Canyons:
9990, among others

Deer Valley:
Empire HS Quad

 

[Mapnut]

The Buckboard double at Sugarloaf, 1971, their first chairlift. Probably the Spillway too, and probably the Barker Mountain double at Sunday River, their first chairlift. The Exhibition quad at Berkshire East.

 

[SIKSKIER]

Boy,I've rode many debute chairs but here's one that dates me.Cannon's "new" Peabody chair which was taken out maybe 7 years ago or longer when they installed a used triple from Sunapee.Gee,even my memory is fading.It was always called the Hong Kong chair cuz of it's red white and blue plastic chairs.It did have one nice feature though.The seats pivoted up at night to keep them clear of snow and ice.
How about a debute tram?Cannon's in 1980.
First customer to ride the Cannonball quad when that opened.

 

[loafer89]

I took a trip up to Killington to ski on the Skyship the day it opened on December 15th, 1994.

My wife and I paid $160 to ride in the private Skyship gondola cabin with leather seats, Blaupunkt stereo and tinted windows in October of 1994. I still have the champagne and the picture of the two of us at the top of Skye Peak.

 

[skibum9995]

Cannon - Peabody Quad
Burke - Sherburne Express
Jay Peak - Metro Quad
Sunapee - Summit Express
Sunapee - Sun Bowl Quad
Attitash - Flying Yankee

 

[sledhaulingmedic]

Onset: 2 Hall Doubles and a Hall T

Crotched West: Summit Quad

Temple: Quad

SR: Several, but I can't remember which.

Blue Hills: Handle tow and Magic Carpet.

Ragged: Six pack

Why-choose-it: Both quads

Cannon: Summit Quad

'Bird: Mineral Basin

 

[thetrailboss]

The seats pivoted up at night to keep them clear of snow and ice.

A lot of chairs have that feature. It's just the resorts need to choose to use it. :wink:

I took a trip up to Killington to ski on the Skyship the day it opened on December 15th, 1994.

My wife and I paid $160 to ride in the private Skyship gondola cabin with leather seats, Blaupunkt stereo and tinted windows in October of 1994. I still have the champagne and the picture of the two of us at the top of Skye Peak.

Must have been VERY cool!

 

[loafer89]

Must have been VERY cool!

It was, it's amazing what a couple can do in just a few minutes time:razz:

 

[eastcoastpowderhound]

Sugarloaf Superquad, Wiffle Tree quad, Timberline Quad
Sunday River Barker Quad, Jordan Quad, Oz Quad, Aurora Quad, White Heat Quad
Shawnee Peak Triple...back in the early 80s first triple chair I think I ever rode.
Stratton...two of the six packs
Vail China Bowl express
Canyons Flight of the Canyons gondy, Tombstone Express, 9990' chair
Steamboat thunderhead express
Probably a few others, but none that come to mind right now.

 

[drewfidelic]

This past season, the new HSQ at Windham.
________
Babe Spanish

 

[Newpylong]

I took a trip up to Killington to ski on the Skyship the day it opened on December 15th, 1994.

My wife and I paid $160 to ride in the private Skyship gondola cabin with leather seats, Blaupunkt stereo and tinted windows in October of 1994. I still have the champagne and the picture of the two of us at the top of Skye Peak.

I think a little show and tell is in order!

Is that cabin still around???

 

[kcyanks1]

I may not be totally perfect with my accuracy, but here it goes:

(1) Straightbrook Quad (Gore)
(2) North Quad (Gore)
(3) Bear Mountain Gondola (Gore)

Ones I am pretty sure about but not quite as confident:
(4) Topridge triple (Gore)
(5) Skyeship (Killington)
(6) Face Lift (Whiteface)
(7) Cloudsplitter Gondola (Whiteface)

There may be others, like maybe the first year of the Castlerock replacement at SB South and I might have been on the Green Mountain Express first edition in its opinion year at SB North.

Need to add: East Ridge double at Jackson Hole.