Some weekends, usually until the morning crowd abates, maybe 5-10 weekends a winter. Face laps are more better if 4 is running, although new Chair 2 will probably change that. I’ll still ride 4 because RIBLET.
The Riblet lifts at Bogus have always been bail chairs, not center pole. These are newer chairs (they replaced them all in the 90s I believe), but the old ones were narrower bail chairs as well. Learning to ski at Bogus in the early 80s, I didn’t realize there was such thing as a center pole until I skied Brundage for the first time and looked to the outside to grab on and realized there was nothing to grab on to.
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How often does this lift run? You can get to everything from the HSQ.
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Some weekends, usually until the morning crowd abates, maybe 5-10 weekends a winter. Face laps are more better if 4 is running, although new Chair 2 will probably change that. I’ll still ride 4 because RIBLET.
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Are the chairs on this lift original? These appear to be newer Riblet bail chairs.
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I’d say not those chairs came around in the late 1980s most likely it would of been a center pole double
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Riblet made bail chairs at least as early as ’62.
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Note those bail chairs though.
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As early as the 1940s, on their first double chairlifts.
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The Riblet lifts at Bogus have always been bail chairs, not center pole. These are newer chairs (they replaced them all in the 90s I believe), but the old ones were narrower bail chairs as well. Learning to ski at Bogus in the early 80s, I didn’t realize there was such thing as a center pole until I skied Brundage for the first time and looked to the outside to grab on and realized there was nothing to grab on to.
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