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skier72 April 3, 2021 / 10:27 am I found a picture with the bottom of old chair 6, and an interesting Goforth Brothers J-Bar (Maybe 8?). LikeLike
Carson December 5, 2022 / 1:42 pm http://www.chairlift.org/beech.html this has a couple photos of old lifts LikeLike
Carson October 8, 2024 / 2:25 pm https://www.digitalwatauga.org/items/browse?tags=Carlevaro-Savio some more photos of the old gondola. It should be noted that it was a detachable double with bubbles. another couple of photos https://www.digitalwatauga.org/files/original/e29d669d776070d4a451b9f474ed71af.jpg https://www.digitalwatauga.org/items/show/9236 Also the high speed double was replaced at some point with a heron poma double that reused the towers. https://www.digitalwatauga.org/files/original/9ebdcfbaf15b8c57ec727378af05f749.jpg One other Fun photo shows one of the Goforth Brothers double chairs in a triangle configuration. https://www.digitalwatauga.org/files/original/5fb2ae013d60d93e54095908a9b4fe48.jpg And the last photo that has the Borving double https://www.digitalwatauga.org/files/original/675c4a45f1b8f0022303fdf4ec031de0.jpg LikeLike
Carson October 10, 2024 / 8:58 pm https://www.digitalwatauga.org/items/browse?tags=Carlevaro-Savio some more photos of the old gondola. It should be noted that it was a detachable double with bubbles. another couple of photos https://www.digitalwatauga.org/files/original/e29d669d776070d4a451b9f474ed71af.jpg https://www.digitalwatauga.org/items/show/9236 Also the high speed double was replaced at some point with a heron poma double that reused the towers. https://www.digitalwatauga.org/files/original/9ebdcfbaf15b8c57ec727378af05f749.jpg One other Fun photo shows one of the Goforth Brothers double chairs in a triangle configuration. https://www.digitalwatauga.org/files/original/5fb2ae013d60d93e54095908a9b4fe48.jpg And the last photo that has the Borving double https://www.digitalwatauga.org/files/original/675c4a45f1b8f0022303fdf4ec031de0.jpg LikeLike
Carson April 9, 2025 / 11:29 pm it was in the “land of OZ” park that was above chair 5. It must have overlooked the park at one point. It was removed sometime in the 70’s when the park was abandoned. The lan of OZ has reopened since then. But no lift has taken its place since. LikeLike
Mishers April 14, 2025 / 8:01 pm Top terminal of the old quad. https://earth.google.com/web/search/b/@36.18541003,-81.87986401,1656.49717837a,0d,31.44011656y,340.23499852h,95.50156376t,0r/data=CiwiJgokCQAAAAAAAAAAEQAAAAAAAAAAGQAAAAAAAAAAIQAAAAAAAAAAQgIIASIwCixBRjFRaXBQd2NOOWRlbFM5VTJwcU1CeGYtNnhTaUd3TnhyZk1PVkdvXzg5YxAFOgMKATBCAggASg0I____________ARAA LikeLike
Mishers December 1, 2025 / 12:15 pm You can see the gondola and the triangular chair running in this video. LikeLike
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I found a picture with the bottom of old chair 6, and an interesting Goforth Brothers J-Bar (Maybe 8?).
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Any pics of the old gondola?
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http://www.chairlift.org/beech.html this has a couple photos of old lifts
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Who is Goforth Brothers?
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https://www.digitalwatauga.org/items/browse?tags=Carlevaro-Savio some more photos of the old gondola. It should be noted that it was a detachable double with bubbles. another couple of photos https://www.digitalwatauga.org/files/original/e29d669d776070d4a451b9f474ed71af.jpg
https://www.digitalwatauga.org/items/show/9236
Also the high speed double was replaced at some point with a heron poma double that reused the towers. https://www.digitalwatauga.org/files/original/9ebdcfbaf15b8c57ec727378af05f749.jpg
One other Fun photo shows one of the Goforth Brothers double chairs in a triangle configuration. https://www.digitalwatauga.org/files/original/5fb2ae013d60d93e54095908a9b4fe48.jpg
And the last photo that has the Borving double https://www.digitalwatauga.org/files/original/675c4a45f1b8f0022303fdf4ec031de0.jpg
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https://www.digitalwatauga.org/items/browse?tags=Carlevaro-Savio some more photos of the old gondola. It should be noted that it was a detachable double with bubbles. another couple of photos https://www.digitalwatauga.org/files/original/e29d669d776070d4a451b9f474ed71af.jpg
https://www.digitalwatauga.org/items/show/9236
Also the high speed double was replaced at some point with a heron poma double that reused the towers. https://www.digitalwatauga.org/files/original/9ebdcfbaf15b8c57ec727378af05f749.jpg
One other Fun photo shows one of the Goforth Brothers double chairs in a triangle configuration. https://www.digitalwatauga.org/files/original/5fb2ae013d60d93e54095908a9b4fe48.jpg
And the last photo that has the Borving double https://www.digitalwatauga.org/files/original/675c4a45f1b8f0022303fdf4ec031de0.jpg
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Where was the triangular GB chair?
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it was in the “land of OZ” park that was above chair 5. It must have overlooked the park at one point. It was removed sometime in the 70’s when the park was abandoned. The lan of OZ has reopened since then. But no lift has taken its place since.
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Top terminal of the old quad.
https://earth.google.com/web/search/b/@36.18541003,-81.87986401,1656.49717837a,0d,31.44011656y,340.23499852h,95.50156376t,0r/data=CiwiJgokCQAAAAAAAAAAEQAAAAAAAAAAGQAAAAAAAAAAIQAAAAAAAAAAQgIIASIwCixBRjFRaXBQd2NOOWRlbFM5VTJwcU1CeGYtNnhTaUd3TnhyZk1PVkdvXzg5YxAFOgMKATBCAggASg0I____________ARAA
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You can see the gondola and the triangular chair running in this video.
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The video did not work.
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