Being an occasional skier at Mount St. Louis I have always been amazed at the uphill capacity for a relatively small resort. For fun, I created a stat: uphill capacity per hour divided by the acreage of the resort. Picking a small sample: Whistler has a value of 7.6 people per hour per acre; Blue Mountain (which is a very high capacity resort in its own right) has a value of 57.7 and Mount St Louis has a whopping value of 120 people hour. Does any one know of resorts with similar uphill capacities?
I just checked on some midwest and southeast hills since they usually have a lot of lifts/trail, and I found Mt Kato in MN, Boston Mills/Brandywine in OH, Snowstar in IL, and App. Ski Mt. in NC all have an uphill capacity per hour/acreage of over 200.
MSLM can get insanely busy, especially on weekends and holidays. All 4 Six-Packs can be stacked full almost all day during the busy season. Louis side parking lot is typically full by 11am on most weekends now, forcing people over to the Moonstone side.
The Adventure 8 is now operational! The lift is equipped with an L-shaped bottom terminal, with a large widescreen display nicknamed the “snowtron”. While riding the lift, the safety bar with footrests must be lowered manually, however, the bar automatically raises at the top just before unloading. The chairs are also equipped with heated seats. This lift now has the most uphill capacity per hour of any lift in North America.
There was also a Double Chair on Smart Alec for some time that was removed in 1997 and replaced with the Outback Quad. Date built or manufacturer unknown. There was a T-Bar on Gentle Ben- 1965-1992 and dual T-Bars built in 1963 located in what is known now as T-Bar Alley, and was ultimately replaced by the Summit Six.
This place must get absolutely PACKED looking at how much uphill capacity they have for such a small mountain, with two high- capacity detachable lifts paralleling each other on each peak
The answer is yes it gets busy, but on a busy day, the lift capacity puts almost everyone either in the chalet, on the hill or on a chairlift going up, the lines aren’t that crazy. On the Summit Six EXP / Josl Huter EXP side, (known as the Mount St Louis side), where both lifts are High Speed Sixes, the wide open hill is 800 feet wide, half way down. On the Adventure 8 / Promenade 6 side (known as the Moonstone side, both lifts are high speed lifts and the wide open hill is almost 1100 feet wide half way down. (both by Google earth measurement. MSLM is a ski hill that was dug out of a very large hole in the ground, which is now a 120 gallon snowmaking pond. Half of the vert is natural, the other half is “above the treeline” . Ski with your eyes alert, the traffic is constantly coming at you, but it’s not like lots of places in North America where high speed lifts drop at the top of very narrow trails. The hill (and the skiers) spread out fast from the top. There are places in Ontario that have just as many people on narrow trails. My two cents.
Promenade is now mostly relegated to weekend relief duties and is still well used. This past family day weekend was busy for both Adventure8 and Promenade, with both lift lines basically merging at times. Majority of Promenade riders are utilizing the much bigger and longer green runs on the Moonstone side.
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Being an occasional skier at Mount St. Louis I have always been amazed at the uphill capacity for a relatively small resort. For fun, I created a stat: uphill capacity per hour divided by the acreage of the resort. Picking a small sample: Whistler has a value of 7.6 people per hour per acre; Blue Mountain (which is a very high capacity resort in its own right) has a value of 57.7 and Mount St Louis has a whopping value of 120 people hour. Does any one know of resorts with similar uphill capacities?
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Tremblant’s somewhere around 38 people per hour per acre (guesstimating).
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I just checked on some midwest and southeast hills since they usually have a lot of lifts/trail, and I found Mt Kato in MN, Boston Mills/Brandywine in OH, Snowstar in IL, and App. Ski Mt. in NC all have an uphill capacity per hour/acreage of over 200.
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MSLM can get insanely busy, especially on weekends and holidays. All 4 Six-Packs can be stacked full almost all day during the busy season. Louis side parking lot is typically full by 11am on most weekends now, forcing people over to the Moonstone side.
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any pictures of old Stretcher triple?
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The Adventure 8 is now operational! The lift is equipped with an L-shaped bottom terminal, with a large widescreen display nicknamed the “snowtron”. While riding the lift, the safety bar with footrests must be lowered manually, however, the bar automatically raises at the top just before unloading. The chairs are also equipped with heated seats. This lift now has the most uphill capacity per hour of any lift in North America.
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Do we want to place bets online on Liftblog on how fast Peter hops an airplane to Ontario to come see Adventure8: :). My bet is by mid January 2024.
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There was also a Double Chair on Smart Alec for some time that was removed in 1997 and replaced with the Outback Quad. Date built or manufacturer unknown. There was a T-Bar on Gentle Ben- 1965-1992 and dual T-Bars built in 1963 located in what is known now as T-Bar Alley, and was ultimately replaced by the Summit Six.
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This place must get absolutely PACKED looking at how much uphill capacity they have for such a small mountain, with two high- capacity detachable lifts paralleling each other on each peak
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trail map:
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The answer is yes it gets busy, but on a busy day, the lift capacity puts almost everyone either in the chalet, on the hill or on a chairlift going up, the lines aren’t that crazy. On the Summit Six EXP / Josl Huter EXP side, (known as the Mount St Louis side), where both lifts are High Speed Sixes, the wide open hill is 800 feet wide, half way down. On the Adventure 8 / Promenade 6 side (known as the Moonstone side, both lifts are high speed lifts and the wide open hill is almost 1100 feet wide half way down. (both by Google earth measurement. MSLM is a ski hill that was dug out of a very large hole in the ground, which is now a 120 gallon snowmaking pond. Half of the vert is natural, the other half is “above the treeline” . Ski with your eyes alert, the traffic is constantly coming at you, but it’s not like lots of places in North America where high speed lifts drop at the top of very narrow trails. The hill (and the skiers) spread out fast from the top. There are places in Ontario that have just as many people on narrow trails. My two cents.
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with the addition of the adveture8, how have the lines on the promenade express fared?
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Promenade is now mostly relegated to weekend relief duties and is still well used. This past family day weekend was busy for both Adventure8 and Promenade, with both lift lines basically merging at times. Majority of Promenade riders are utilizing the much bigger and longer green runs on the Moonstone side.
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