This was the second chairlift built at Sandia and the first Riblet.Top terminal with vault drive.Another view of the top station.Looking down the line.Unloading before the top bullwheel.Middle section of the lift line.View up the lift.Lift line overview.Lower terminal and operator house.Lower bullwheel with tensioning.View up from the load point.Side view of the bottom station.
Wrong on the alignment! It ran close to Chair 4 to the right and went really far uphill. It ended near tower 32 of Chair 3 but far right. I saw the lift line while I was hiking
I got the 1972 year from Sandia’s 2016 master plan. They said Chair 2 was built in 1972, and Chair 3 was built in 1981. Chair 3 first appeared on a picture from 1979. Chair 2 was definitely built in 1969
This lift starts a couple hundred feet away from the site of the mid-load on the defunct Chair 1 (midstation was removed in 2005). If Chair 1 was down, but below the midstation was closed due to low snow, this lift would serve the upper mountain as a backup
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This was actually built in 1972 and a 1948 Constam T-Bar used to run in the alignment
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Wait I am wrong about the t-bar. It was built in 1946 and ran in a part of Chair 3’s alignment.
The picture:
Chair 3’s alignment:
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Wrong on the alignment! It ran close to Chair 4 to the right and went really far uphill. It ended near tower 32 of Chair 3 but far right. I saw the lift line while I was hiking
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That was actually the platter on Aspen/Diablo that destroyed itself in the late 1960s
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I got the 1972 year from Sandia’s 2016 master plan. They said Chair 2 was built in 1972, and Chair 3 was built in 1981. Chair 3 first appeared on a picture from 1979. Chair 2 was definitely built in 1969
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This lift rarely runs. Last time it ran was roughly 2021
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This lift starts a couple hundred feet away from the site of the mid-load on the defunct Chair 1 (midstation was removed in 2005). If Chair 1 was down, but below the midstation was closed due to low snow, this lift would serve the upper mountain as a backup
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