This lift services intermediate terrain and is the only original chairlift which remained after the 2020 purchase of Bousquet.Drive equipment movable on a track.Another look at the drive bullwheel.Looking up the line.Lower station overview.Lift towers with added frames.Tower 7.Looking down the line.Bullwheel unloading.Center pole Hall chairs with bars are quite rare.Top station set up for summer operations.The last span of the lift.
Depending on how they do, I really hope the new owners do something with this lift in the coming years. It could use some upgrades and a full blown replacement. I have seen so many people, especially snowboarders have trouble loading with the center pole chairs. I personally don’t have trouble with them but they can be a little irritating.
I was about to correct you but then saw you specified New England, not the north east! I myself have ridden an additional 5 center pole lifts I can think of that still exist in New York: Hunt Hollow’s double chair, Song Mountain’s double chair, and the 3 Borvig quads at Swain. I also got to ride Kissing Bridge’s Coal Chute chair but that got taken down the year after
i feel like not all snowboarders really know how to board a center pole: my aunt has snowboarded since she was young and she grew up on center poles and that’s why she learned how to ride one. I think the snowboarders just need to keep trying and experiment with different body positions to figure out which one is best for boarding a center pole. u can become a natural at those lifts if you practice long enough. And i know this is true cause my aunt is really good at boarding these center poles after years of practice.
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Depending on how they do, I really hope the new owners do something with this lift in the coming years. It could use some upgrades and a full blown replacement. I have seen so many people, especially snowboarders have trouble loading with the center pole chairs. I personally don’t have trouble with them but they can be a little irritating.
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I feel like the solution to any snowboard-specific problem is to ski. That’s my two very worn-out pennies.
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It’s one of 2 operational CP chairlifts in New England!
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I was about to correct you but then saw you specified New England, not the north east! I myself have ridden an additional 5 center pole lifts I can think of that still exist in New York: Hunt Hollow’s double chair, Song Mountain’s double chair, and the 3 Borvig quads at Swain. I also got to ride Kissing Bridge’s Coal Chute chair but that got taken down the year after
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i feel like not all snowboarders really know how to board a center pole: my aunt has snowboarded since she was young and she grew up on center poles and that’s why she learned how to ride one. I think the snowboarders just need to keep trying and experiment with different body positions to figure out which one is best for boarding a center pole. u can become a natural at those lifts if you practice long enough. And i know this is true cause my aunt is really good at boarding these center poles after years of practice.
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Those. chairs look like riblet chairs.
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Are there any more hall center poles left in North America?
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Yes, in the Midwest, I forgot where though…
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Ski Brule still has two or three of them.
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