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Arizona???
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If I ever have the chance to get there and take pictures I will!
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Can you add Telluride, CO? You wouldn’t necessarily need pictures, and I know basically their whole lift system going back to the 70s (including manufacturers).
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In the Vail pictures in Colorado, Gopher Hill is labeled as chair #13 but it is chair #12.
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Fixed.
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Even after I clear cache, I can only view it once before it shows the error again
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Strange. If you feel comfortable sharing who your internet service provider is, that might help me narrow it down. Do you get the same error message when you click “View in Fullscreen?”
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Never mind, it seems to be working now. I use safari
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The lift are coming down at suger loaf mi
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Sad to hear. Any word if they sold to another ski area?
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They were sadly scrapped (including the VonRoll triple).
https://miskireport.com/chairlifts-scrapped-sugarloaf-resort/
Some pics of the old lifts can be found here: http://www.skilifts.org/old/mi-sugarloaf.htm
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Can you get a video?
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It seems just like yesterday I was just getting on chair 2 back in the winter of 1998-1999 I did not know that they are removing the lifts or even that it was abandoned! I hope the lifts go to a different resort I live in Utah know and ski solitude resort for 17 years.
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You should do Minnesota
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you should do the lift in texas
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Which one? There are six now!
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the one at spider hill
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The page for the one resort in iowa is requiring you to open it in drive
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this is kinda random but I don’t know where else to ask-are there any operating center pole quads outside of the Midwest? I know Michigan has a few, and there are a couple in MN and WI as well, but I can’t think of any at west coast/rockies or east coast resorts.
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https://liftblog.com/sunrise-mountain-high-ca/
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If you consider Clear Fork, OH to be operating, then the center pole quad on their “advanced” hill would count. They aren’t open for skiing anymore, but the area is currently used for summer operations.
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There are still a few Borvigs in the Mid-Atlantic / Northeast at smaller ski areas that are the center-pole quad design. Many have been replaced over the past decade but a few are still around. Tussey Mountain, PA still has one.
Ribets were extremely rare in the Mid-Atlantic / Northeast so many of the older lifts were Hall or Borvig.
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So apparently there are four states without any lifts: Arkansas, Delaware, Hawaii, and Louisiana.
Hawaii is quite surprising given all the volcanoes and tourism focus. Arkansas has some topography and tourism too … for instance, the Mount Magazine Lodge sits on the state’s high point 1000 vertical feet above the surrounding valley.
Delaware and Louisiana make more sense. Flat, coastal states with no skiing.
There is a relatively new-looking pulse gondola in a forest park in Puerto Rico … though from the ltitle I can find online, it appears to be standing/not-operating.
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Doppelmayr CTEC built the Puerto Rico gondola in 2012 and it was open only for five years. Closed ever since Hurricane Maria. If it ever reopens, I will certainly go.
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There was also another CTEC double at a theme park in Puerto Rico. The chair (as far as I know) closed in the early 1990s, even though the the theme park re-opened a few years later. There’s a good video of it here:
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New Orleans used to have a Poma Gondola that crossed the Mississippi River.
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There is an old double chair in the Dominican republic just out punta cana on their website they claim it was built by europian experts to boast its safety. The chairs look a bit like the double chairs on heather canyon at mt hood but the bars are curved instead of straight and im not sure what the lifting frames are from. If Someone who knows more than me could tell me that would be cool. It was really cool when I was there a few years ago and it takes you up to a high point to zipline down. I linked it below and also put it in the website portion of the comment
https://lahaciendapark.com/chairlift/
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Looks like a classic Poma double. Thanks for sharing.
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I seem to remember it being pretty quiet, would it have been electric or diesel?
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That’s a Poma. Poma lifting frames and Poma chairs similar to Panda Peak at Buttermilk, CO
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What are the odds all three of us just said the same exact thing at the same exact time?
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Based on the images on the website, that’s a Poma double chairlift probably dating to the late ’70s or early ’80s. It uses the European-style Delta terminal for its drive, and given that only a few of that model of terminal were ever built in North America, it was probably fabricated in France (so the website’s claim about it being built by “European experts” has some truth to it). The website says that the park opened in 2016 so the chairlift is likely a relocation from Europe.
What’s interesting to me is that newenglandskihistory.com states that Mount Snow’s old Carinthia Double (Riblet) was possibly relocated to a “canopy tour in Dominica” yet the current chairlift is definitely not a Riblet. The Carinthia Double must have either ended up elsewhere or been scrapped.
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That really looks to me like an old complete Poma build (https://www.remontees-mecaniques.net/bdd/reportage-tsf2-du-planeil-poma-257.html), but I’d definitely like to hear some other opinions on it
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A lift for every birthday (to a point) … based on the number of towers …
Birth — Lone Peak Tram, Big Sky
One — Alyeska Tram
Two — Jay Peak Tram
Three — Cannon Tram
Four — Peak2Peak Gondola
Five — Jackson Hole Tram
Six — Gatlinburg Tram
Seven — Monarch Crest Scenic Gondola
Eight — Seventh Heaven, Stevens Pass
Nine — Imperial Superchair, Breckenridge
Ten — Gold Coast Funitel, Palisades
Eleven — Three Bears, Copper
Twelve — Pallavicini, A-Basin
Thirteen — Ramcharger 8, Big Sky
Fourteen — Castle Rock, Sugarbush
Fifteen — Mount Rainier Gondola, Crystal WA
Sixteen — Goat’s Eye Express, Sunshine Village
Seventeen — Arizona Gondola, AZ Snowbowl
Eighteen — Champagne Express, Panorama
Nineteen — KT-22, Palisades
Twenty — Sunburst Six, Okemo
Twenty-One — Strawberry Express, Snowbasin
Twenty-Two — FourRunner, Stowe
Twenty-Three — Golden Eagle Express, Kicking Horse
Twenty-Four — K-1, Killington
Twenty-Five — Cloudsplitter, Whiteface
Twenty-Six — Steamboat Gondola
Twenty-Seven — Sheer Bliss, Snowmass
Twenty-Eight — Challenger, Sun Valley
Twenty-Nine — Burfield, Sun Peaks
Thirty — Orange Bubble Express, Park City
Thirty-One — Duncan Express, Tremblant
Thirty-Two — Grizzly, Purgatory
Thirty-Three — River Run Gondola, Keystone
Thirty-Four — Chile Express, Angel Fire
Thirty-Five — Gondola, Heavenly
Thirty-Six — :(
Thirty-Seven — Madonna I, Smugglers Notch
Thirty-Eight — Sunshine Express, Telluride
Thirty-Nine — A-Chair, Breckenridge
Forty — Slide Brook Express, Sugarbush
Forty-One — Chair 3, Sandia Peak
Forty-Two — Whistler Village Gondola II
42-44 — :(
Forty-Five — Gondola, Silver Mtn ID
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How long did it take you to come up with that list?
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About an hour with Beautiful Soup and Pandas. It mostly involved statements like this:
all_lifts[ (all_lifts[‘Status’] == ‘Operating’)
&(all_lifts[‘Towers’] == 30)].sort_values(‘Vertical Rise’).dropna(subset=[‘Vertical Rise’]).tail(20)
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