High Alpine – Snowmass, CO

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Top terminal seen from Sheer Bliss.
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LPA station in a new location below that of the old Riblet.
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Loading area and operator house.
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Lift overview.
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Tower 1.
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View down from T5.
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Nearing the summit.
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Tower 14.
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Top station and unload ramp.
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Side view of the top station.
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LPA terminal with wood paneling.
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Lift line near the summit.
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Middle portion of the line.
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Upper lift line.
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View down towards the base.
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Lower lift line.
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Side view of the bottom drive terminal.
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Top station looking towards Sheer Bliss and Big Burn.
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Another view of the return from below.

14 thoughts on “High Alpine – Snowmass, CO

  1. skitheeast's avatar skitheeast September 25, 2019 / 7:44 pm

    Ski Co added chairs to this lift over the summer to increase its capacity to 1800 from 1200.

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    • Donald Reif's avatar Donald Reif December 29, 2019 / 2:38 pm

      I wonder how many chairs High Alpine has now compared to when it was constructed.

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      • skitheeast's avatar skitheeast December 29, 2019 / 3:21 pm

        Its original capacity was 1200 and now it is 1800 (50% increase), so I am guessing it has 50% more chairs.

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  2. Donald Reif's avatar Donald Reif January 29, 2020 / 2:11 pm

    Interesting is the fact that the chairs have the older yellow swoosh Poma logo, although the terminals have the modern logo:

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  3. Joshua Redman's avatar Joshua Redman January 8, 2022 / 3:00 pm

    They were imported from Europe so it is possible that Leitner-Poma just put the POMA logo on it and LPA put theirs on the terminals.

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  4. Donald Reif's avatar Donald Reif April 7, 2022 / 5:51 am

    Here’s some video of the lift after the capacity upgrade:

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  5. TheColoradianTexan's avatar TheColoradianTexan April 2, 2023 / 7:51 am

    Is there a reason as to why every single lift except Shadow Mountain at Aspen-Snowmass has at least some Poma or Leitner-Poma parts? Like, do they have some kind of deal doing on?

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    • AO's avatar AO February 19, 2024 / 11:29 am

      From a maintenance perspective it’s nice to have only one manufacturer, bonus when that manufacturer is just two hours down the road. On more than one occasion an emergency parts run was made to get a lift operational for the next next day

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      • pbropetech's avatar pbropetech February 19, 2024 / 6:12 pm

        We’ve done that run as well. Definitely convenient.

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  6. skitheeast's avatar skitheeast March 23, 2025 / 8:56 pm

    I do not know the exact technical term, but one of this lift’s deceleration sensors has been acting up all season, causing the lift to stop fairly frequently.

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  7. Skiliftfreak's avatar Skiliftfreak May 9, 2026 / 1:05 am

    Old high alpine:

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  8. Skiliftfreak's avatar Skiliftfreak May 9, 2026 / 1:06 am

    not a good video but better than nothing

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