Bottom terminal in Purgatory Village with counterweight tensioning.Return carriage and bullwheel.Bottom station overview.Riding up the first part of the line.A mid-station serves alpine slide offloading in the summer and skier loading in the winter.Split tower and mid-load.The upper two-thirds of the lift spins empty all summer.Classic Riblet breakover.Upper lift line.34 towers!Arriving at the overhead drive.Unloading ramp and operator house.Side view of the top terminal.Empty lift line.The mid-station.Alpine slide part of the line.First few towers.Lower lift line.
It’s a very out-of-the-way mountain, so the Purgatory Village express is all the uphill capacity Purgatory really needs. In the future, I could see this lift getting replaced with a Skytrac quad or triple, but not a HSQ.
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How many pre-1984 (or was it some other year that Riblet changed its designs?) Riblets have safety bars?
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Song Mountain NY, that one has footrests
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It’s probably time to upgrade this to a high speed quad. Kind of crazy that they still have a Riblet running here considering it is out of base.
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It’s a very out-of-the-way mountain, so the Purgatory Village express is all the uphill capacity Purgatory really needs. In the future, I could see this lift getting replaced with a Skytrac quad or triple, but not a HSQ.
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Hasn’t been officially announced yet. But, it appears that Purgatory plans to replace this lift with a Gondola in Summer of 2028.
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Not from what I’ve heard. I just talked to a supervisor down there and she hasn’t heard anything like that. It’s not even in their master plan.
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