SkyTrac Monarch top terminal.Breakover tower.Bottom terminal with fixed return bullwheel.Bottom station.SkyTrac controls at the return.The load has a Chairkit conveyor.The top terminal in summer.Monarch station.Tower next to the top terminal.Looking down the lift line.Side view of the Peak return station.View up the lift line.Lift overview.The first few towers.Steepest part of the lift line.Return bullwheel.Tower 11.Skytrac quad chair.View back down the lower line.Riding out of the base.
5 thoughts on “Rampart – The Summit at Snoqualmie, WA”
pbropetechJuly 14, 2021 / 8:39 pm
I skied this pod repeatedly off of old chair 3 in the 80s, when Hyak used to have night skiing (does it still?). Having this lift would definitely have changed the routine.
Hyak has not had night skiing since the ‘90s. This chair essentially replaced Chair 3, in a better alignment. It was always an uphill battle to get from the top of Chair 3 to Sissy’s and Mom’s, which were my two favorite runs back then
Chair 3 to folks who grew up in KC, especially East KC, and are olds like me. Hyak chairs were numbered first, and maybe there were names but nobody used them. There were pomas, too, so who knows. They deroped quite a bit, as those things did. I think Ski Acres and Summit chairs were named and not numbered. Alpental may have been both cos at least the Sessel (Chair 3) name has been around at least as long as I can remember, and I’m old, like I said. Booth Creek kinda numbered and named and definitely made it weird. Or maybe it was Moffat before Booth Creek showed up. Chair 2 at Alpental was 17, for some reason. I’m pretty sure the names at Hyak didn’t show up until there was some amalgamation/M&A. Anyway, Keechelus is the reservoir/augmented lake down on the Yakima. Chair 3 ran parallel to and north of Chair 1, but started above the base area. I think it was yellow. Somewhere near the Oly can, or not. It was partly damaged when the hill slid back in 20whenever. You posted a map on the main Snoqualmie Pass comment page that lists it as “C-3”. Every so often I catch a whiff of a smell or a cologne or perfume that reminds me of the Hyak day lodge. That or I hear Waylon or Bach. Either one’ll do. Carry on.
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I skied this pod repeatedly off of old chair 3 in the 80s, when Hyak used to have night skiing (does it still?). Having this lift would definitely have changed the routine.
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Hyak has not had night skiing since the ‘90s. This chair essentially replaced Chair 3, in a better alignment. It was always an uphill battle to get from the top of Chair 3 to Sissy’s and Mom’s, which were my two favorite runs back then
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By chair 3 do you mean Keechelus?
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Chair 3 to folks who grew up in KC, especially East KC, and are olds like me. Hyak chairs were numbered first, and maybe there were names but nobody used them. There were pomas, too, so who knows. They deroped quite a bit, as those things did. I think Ski Acres and Summit chairs were named and not numbered. Alpental may have been both cos at least the Sessel (Chair 3) name has been around at least as long as I can remember, and I’m old, like I said. Booth Creek kinda numbered and named and definitely made it weird. Or maybe it was Moffat before Booth Creek showed up. Chair 2 at Alpental was 17, for some reason. I’m pretty sure the names at Hyak didn’t show up until there was some amalgamation/M&A. Anyway, Keechelus is the reservoir/augmented lake down on the Yakima. Chair 3 ran parallel to and north of Chair 1, but started above the base area. I think it was yellow. Somewhere near the Oly can, or not. It was partly damaged when the hill slid back in 20whenever. You posted a map on the main Snoqualmie Pass comment page that lists it as “C-3”. Every so often I catch a whiff of a smell or a cologne or perfume that reminds me of the Hyak day lodge. That or I hear Waylon or Bach. Either one’ll do. Carry on.
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C-1 was the old Dinosaur lift and is now East Peak/Hidden Valley
C-2 was the old Easy Gold lift
C-3 was the old Keechelus lift and is now Rampart
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