Top station with Doppelmayr operator house.Breakover towers just below the unload.Upper lift line view.Lower part of the line.Towers 1-2.Lower terminal below the River Run Gondola.Loading area and operator house.Riding up.View back down the line.The entire line is adjacent to the gondola.Drive station.Another view of the top terminal.Looking down from the top.Anther lift line view.Doppelmayr tower with catwalks.
This lift replaced a Lift Engineering triple called Erickson, which didn’t run top to bottom, and started at the junction of Whipsaw, Jacques St. James and Santa Fe (one can notice that the junction looks like the appropriate spot for a lift to start).
At one point, this lift was called the River Run Chair, and the River Run Gondola was just called Gondola. There is a lodge in the village called Expedition Station that has a map inside the rooms with it marked as River Run.
It has been full-time for most of its life. A few years it was a reliever, but Key gets busy, and the Gondola isn’t a great lap lift since you need to cross the bridge over the Snake River, and of course remove skis.
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This lift replaced a Lift Engineering triple called Erickson, which didn’t run top to bottom, and started at the junction of Whipsaw, Jacques St. James and Santa Fe (one can notice that the junction looks like the appropriate spot for a lift to start).
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Rare Doppelmayr lift that runs at 1100 fpm.
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Even at that speed, it’s still a 9.25 minute ride.
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That’s because it made some slow downs.
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Without slowdowns, it’s a nine minute ride. If you slow only once, it’s about nine and a half minutes.
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Curiously, for the first year or two, some maps labeled this lift as the Skyway Express.
Though sometimes inconsistently as others referred to it as the Summit Express:
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At one point, this lift was called the River Run Chair, and the River Run Gondola was just called Gondola. There is a lodge in the village called Expedition Station that has a map inside the rooms with it marked as River Run.
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So is this lift like a reliever lift that only runs at peak times?
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This lift runs at all times, due to the fact that not all terrain on this side of Dercum Mountain provides ways to return to the Montezuma Express.
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It has been full-time for most of its life. A few years it was a reliever, but Key gets busy, and the Gondola isn’t a great lap lift since you need to cross the bridge over the Snake River, and of course remove skis.
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At one point, this lift was called the River Run Chair, and the River Run Gondola was just called Gondola.
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