"World's highest, scariest chair lifts"

[marcski]

The old Millicent double chair at Brighton made me hug that center pole like no other!!

 

[jaytrem]

The old Millicent double chair at Brighton made me hug that center pole like no other!!

That one didn't get me as bad as 7th Heaven at Stevens Pass. That thing is an elevator. Found a decent pic on google images, see upper right...

http://danielarndt.com/albums/56/skiing-at-stevens-pass

Short and STEEP.

 

[jimk]

Taos has a chair that goes over a gully and you are really off the ground, no safety bar and I was on it when it was blowing the chair sideways!! only chair that had me worried.

The places with the hairy terrain tend to be the ones with the hairy lift rides :grin:
Skied Taos a couple years ago. Tremendous ski area. There's a cool old center pole there, but don't think it's the one you are talking about:

The chair that goes to the highest lift served point at Taos probably IS the one you are talking about. It's really high off the ground at the spot where this pic was taken. Pretty bad a$$ runs all over the place, the lightly gladed one there is called Castor:

 

[MadPatSki]

Off the top of my head :

Aiguille du Midi Tram, Chamonix
Le Brévent Tram, Chamonix

Marte chairlift in Las Lenas
The old Whistler Peak chair, Whistler
Chair 23 at Mammoth

The LaGrave gondola isn't scarry, maybe they're considering the terrain that you have to ski afterwards?

 

[BeefyBoy50]

Some lifts at Alta are pretty scary granted that they don't have lift bars (don't understand this, especially because Alta is skiers only and snowboarders are the ones who I would say use the bar less often). The main lifts that come to mind to me there are Supreme and Wildcat. Both have sections that are high above the ground, and wildcat is just an old center pole. These lifts are similar to those at Squaw valley (like Red Dog and Squaw Creek)
Given that the article pretty much used height to mean "scary", I'm also suprised the Snowbird tram isn't on here. That thing is easily 200 feet above the base of the Cirque at times.
The Challenger chair at Big Sky is pretty high up and it gets windy up there too. I can't remember if there is a bar.
The T-bar at Breckenridge (going up towards peak 8) is straight up a black-diamond steepness run and really hurt my nuts

 

[SIKSKIER]

Whistler Peak chair made me put the bar down after the butterflys kicked in.

 

[teqeeler]

If I recall, Jordan Double chair at Sunday River is really high. I would put that on my personal list.

well the title is worlds scariest lifts. Me personally I wouldn't deem anything at sunday river remotely scary unless you happen to be young or afraid of heights

 

[andrec10]

How about the Peak 2 Peak Gondola at Whistler with the glass bottom!

 

[skiNEwhere]

I was at Jay in 2009 on a windy day with an instructor. I took a run at the end of the day, there were only a couple of people on the tram with me, and the wind was blowing the cab back and forth pretty strong. The lift operators kept stopping the lift so that it wouldn't hit the tower. The instructor told me that he was in the tram before when it was passing the last tower and a strong gust of wind hit the side of the tram and blew it right into the side of the tower. Not sure to the credibility of the story, but I'm sure it's happened before. I'd imagine getting a jolt like that would be terrifying. Good thing for the "oh-shit" handles.

I'd say the old Castlerock double (I think it was carlevaro-savio) was scary in the fact that it looked like it was going to disintegrate. If they didn't replace it, it probably would've.

 

[Highway Star]

Weather Channel = FAIL.

 

[Cannonball]

Whistler Peak chair made me put the bar down after the butterflys kicked in.

Yeah that's the scariest one I've been on.

When I worked at Copper I would sometimes download into the backbowls at the start of the day. I'll tell you what, it feels a LOT higher when you are looking down a high, steep lift as opposed to looking towards the mountain. Used to scare the crap out of me.