You’re right. I more meant that, as far as I know, the Cascade lift used to be installed where Upper Bowl is now. When Upper Bowl was upgraded some of the older parts were moved to build the Cascade Lift (in a similar alignment to where an old T-Bar used to run).
I could be wrong about some of this, as this is all info I’ve picked up skiing at Skibowl and talking to their lifties, other skiers, etc. over the last 20 years. But it makes sense, as Cascade is made of components that appear to be far older than their 1970s install date would suggest.
I’ve worked on a fair amount of Riblets of all vintages, and Cascade is definitely a mix. The top terminal is a pre-1962 style (might be even older) while the majority of the towers are post-1962 ‘slip-cap’ types (I say post-’62 based off old chair 2 at Baker, which was built then and had the older fixed-caps). The chairs are short-bail, not sure when they switched to a longer bail but it was probably somewhere in the late ’60s. Cool stuff here.
Ski Bowl lists the installation of the original Upper Bowl (which this lift was partly built out of) as 1949. However, my Riblet book also says that Riblet built a chair at Ski Bowl in 1955 that was about 1800’ long. Doesn’t say which.
Upper Bowl and the original Lower Bowl single were the only chairlifts at Ski Bowl and Multorpor at the time. So, either the original Upper Bowl was built in 1955 or Riblet did some kind of major retrofit on one of the lifts in ‘55 or maybe Riblet just had the date wrong.
Skibowl has a history video on their site and in one of the pictures they had, you could see the entire line of this lift when it was installed on the Upper Bowl.
From my count, it looks like it had 1 tube tower at the bottom and 4 lattice towers going to the top (it ran a shorter route to the east of the modern Upper Bowl lift).
They reused all 4 lattice towers for the new Upper Bowl, and moved the terminals and tower 1 to create this lift. So virtually every major component of that original 1949 Upper Bowl lift is still use at Ski Bowl. Wild.
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Does this lift run anymore
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Yes; all the lifts installed at Skibowl still run. This one is the relocated Upper Bowl chair as far as I know.
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The Cascade lift is not the Upper Bowl chair. They are separate lifts and both still running as of Sunday Feb 2 2020 ….
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You’re right. I more meant that, as far as I know, the Cascade lift used to be installed where Upper Bowl is now. When Upper Bowl was upgraded some of the older parts were moved to build the Cascade Lift (in a similar alignment to where an old T-Bar used to run).
I could be wrong about some of this, as this is all info I’ve picked up skiing at Skibowl and talking to their lifties, other skiers, etc. over the last 20 years. But it makes sense, as Cascade is made of components that appear to be far older than their 1970s install date would suggest.
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I’ve worked on a fair amount of Riblets of all vintages, and Cascade is definitely a mix. The top terminal is a pre-1962 style (might be even older) while the majority of the towers are post-1962 ‘slip-cap’ types (I say post-’62 based off old chair 2 at Baker, which was built then and had the older fixed-caps). The chairs are short-bail, not sure when they switched to a longer bail but it was probably somewhere in the late ’60s. Cool stuff here.
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And the drive was before 1956
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Ski Bowl lists the installation of the original Upper Bowl (which this lift was partly built out of) as 1949. However, my Riblet book also says that Riblet built a chair at Ski Bowl in 1955 that was about 1800’ long. Doesn’t say which.
Upper Bowl and the original Lower Bowl single were the only chairlifts at Ski Bowl and Multorpor at the time. So, either the original Upper Bowl was built in 1955 or Riblet did some kind of major retrofit on one of the lifts in ‘55 or maybe Riblet just had the date wrong.
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Would you say the drive, return, and chairs are more likely to be from 1949 or 1955?
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Skibowl has a history video on their site and in one of the pictures they had, you could see the entire line of this lift when it was installed on the Upper Bowl.
From my count, it looks like it had 1 tube tower at the bottom and 4 lattice towers going to the top (it ran a shorter route to the east of the modern Upper Bowl lift).
They reused all 4 lattice towers for the new Upper Bowl, and moved the terminals and tower 1 to create this lift. So virtually every major component of that original 1949 Upper Bowl lift is still use at Ski Bowl. Wild.
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Apparently the drive shaft on this snapped. Not sure if they’ll replace it or what but I hope they get it running again.
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do the even run cascade anymore? Been up several times in the last couple years and never seen it operational
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