Bottom terminal.Lower station looking up the lift line.Looking up the lift line.Hold down tower 7.Approaching the top terminal with Mt. Rainier in the background.Top terminal in the summer.The upper terminal tucked into a hillside.Upper station turnaround.View down from the summit.Middle part of the lift line.This lift has a very interesting profile with ups and downs.Lower lift line.The first two towers.Side view of the bottom station.Green Valley.Loading area.Tower 4.
This lift is great and all, but I miss the old Riblet. It had a standard old-school load ramp (i.e., don’t drop the rope to the skiers, make the skiers sidestep up to the rope) and I recall many years where we had enough snow to have to ski *down* to the load board.
I got to build the that ramp on the latest closing day they have had in a long time. 14 July. (or was it 11 July? Anyway.) I and some patrollers made it with some ice blocks from the bottom of West Face and anger and some pulaskis. Last day on rear entry boots, coincidentally. Good times.
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This was one of the last Spacejet terminals made by Doppelmayr, as they started making Uni G’s the following year
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This lift is great and all, but I miss the old Riblet. It had a standard old-school load ramp (i.e., don’t drop the rope to the skiers, make the skiers sidestep up to the rope) and I recall many years where we had enough snow to have to ski *down* to the load board.
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I got to build the that ramp on the latest closing day they have had in a long time. 14 July. (or was it 11 July? Anyway.) I and some patrollers made it with some ice blocks from the bottom of West Face and anger and some pulaskis. Last day on rear entry boots, coincidentally. Good times.
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