Ruud Mtn Single Chair

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• obienick

  March 2017 Posts: 1,435

  Are those wooden towers?
• MrMagic

  March 2017 Posts: 201

  Wow more details please. Those towers sure look wooden to me . Look as the all the old single chairs still hanging on the line.
• NewEnglandSkier13

  March 2017 Posts: 5,479

  That's world's oldest standing chairlift and the third ever built.
  
  https://liftblog.com/2015/09/14/the-worlds-first-chairlift-almost/

  - Sam
• obienick

  March 2017 Posts: 1,435

  Just found that and was about to post it.
• NewEnglandSkier13

  March 2017 Posts: 5,479

  That picture posted on this thread is from that blog post.

  - Sam
• NJSki

  March 2017 Posts: 445

  I wonder when the last time was that they ran that lift?
• newman

  March 2017 Posts: 456

  It always got buried. The liftline had to be cleaned of snow for it to run more than not. In the early days of chairlifts, I think this one was a big summer attraction.
• ciscokid

  March 2017 Posts: 5,277

  Didn't read the whole thing but there are a few pics
  
  
  https://www.google.com/amp/s/skibums.wordpress.com/2014/02/14/getting-up-the-hill-part-2-chairlifts-gondolas/amp/
• OldMan

  March 2017 Posts: 15

  Yes, I first saw this on the liftblog site and was really surprised, almost like a holy grail.  To the left of the liftline are the remains of a ski jump which shows up on the Google overhead.  Other than Kratka Ridge in CA, are there any other abandoned singles out there?
• ciscokid

  March 2017 Posts: 5,277

  OldMan said:

  Yes, I first saw this on the liftblog site and was really surprised, almost like a holy grail.  To the left of the liftline are the remains of a ski jump which shows up on the Google overhead.  Other than Kratka Ridge in CA, are there any other abandoned singles out there?

  Iirc there is a single operating in Alaska or Canada somewhere. Don't know of abandoned
• Snowmaster

  March 2017 Posts: 268

  TCS had noted one in Wyoming some years back, not sure where or what may have happened to it.
• jaytrem

  March 2017 Posts: 745

  WY one was at Pine Creek, replaced maybe 10 years ago with a quad.