Boyne Mountain 1/20/18 and Boyne Highlands 1/21/18 Ciscokid+Ibrake4tbars + Conrad Ward+ Ted Reilly
Well where do I start, we arrived late morning to a Sun filled sky to a very busy and as Maine native Conrad said a good vibe. After we dropped Ibrake4tbars off to go get his rental equipment we parked the Jeep and took the shuttle wagon got our tickets and headed over to the 1936 original first chair lift in the world from Sun Valley sold to Everett Kercher and still many parts used from the first chair lift in the world. So what is the right thing to do is take your very first lift ride with the famous not infamous Ibrake4tbars on the oldest double chair in the world ,it would seem to be the thing to do to start the day out.
This was a very big mistake ,not only do you squeeze two extra large bodies into a tight chair it makes for uncomfortable seating and precarious exiting as demonstrated in our "near fatal "exit off the lift where Ciscokid and Ibrake4tbars tripped each other up, ibrake slammed face first into the snow, glasses flying off, knee bent out of shape and Ciscokid getting slammed in the back by the next chair full speed and ski coming off. Mucho pain ensued by both.
We sucked up the pain and proceeded to do a left to right chairlift picture taking extravaganza with Conrad going over to the Ramshead Centerpole quad after him getting the Hemlock double original chair pictures. We then proceeded down to disciples Ridge chair one with Conrad taking numerous pictures. Over we went to disciples ridge number two and followed suit and then going down to the Alpine Doppylmayr center pole double chair which we rode separate.
We then proceeded over to the front face of the mountain riding the six pack and then cruising cold Springs , a 1 mile easy run over to the lunch prepared for us by Ted Reilly and Jim Dawson at the pick up truck with the grill burning at the bottom of the Meadows chair by the ski patrol. Conrad went off independently on a picture taking single extravaganza and proceeded to blow our minds away with a total day count of 919 photos.
We sucked down some excellent venison kill bossa or bratworst and Conrad inhaled a 1/3 pound venison burger in a matter of moments. We then got Ibrake4tbars back to the lodge where he ended his short-lived day. It was just good to ski a couple hours with Ibrake4tbars and Conrad and then I went off with Jim and Ted and we made numerous runs down the front face from the Super Bowl across the and then over to devils dive and made some runs there which is the steepest run in that area of the mountain I have not done it in ten years. All in all it was a great day at the mountain
We all stayed in a very nice suite which accommodated all five of us very easily with the kitchen and Ibrake4tbars made his famous fondue and we all sat at the table and drank some wine and just relaxed and hit the hot tub and shared many stories
The decision was made for Conrad and Ciscokid to ski the Highlands on Sunday to continue Conrads photo opportunities with the old lifts there which were the first triple in the world ,first detachable liftin Michigan and three center pole Riblet quads. Ted and Jim went to Nubs Nob. Ibrake4tbars rested his knee and we were done in 3 hours. We got an early start back home because of a ice storm expected and did not want to chance not getting Conrad back to the airport so we got home Sunday evening.all in all a great two day adventure
Conrad
Conrad with Nubs in backround
Center pole quad
Ted at top of BM
Devils dive
Ibrake4tbars and Jim in Super Bowl CPQ
Conrad ready to suck down Jims venison burger
Masterchef James Dawson
Delilah venison brat
Ted, Jim and a old Mt Holly patroller friend, and Ibrake4tbars
Conrad and Ibrake4tbars
Ibrake4tbars
This was a very big mistake ,not only do you squeeze two extra large bodies into a tight chair it makes for uncomfortable seating and precarious exiting as demonstrated in our "near fatal "exit off the lift where Ciscokid and Ibrake4tbars tripped each other up, ibrake slammed face first into the snow, glasses flying off, knee bent out of shape and Ciscokid getting slammed in the back by the next chair full speed and ski coming off. Mucho pain ensued by both.
We sucked up the pain and proceeded to do a left to right chairlift picture taking extravaganza with Conrad going over to the Ramshead Centerpole quad after him getting the Hemlock double original chair pictures. We then proceeded down to disciples Ridge chair one with Conrad taking numerous pictures. Over we went to disciples ridge number two and followed suit and then going down to the Alpine Doppylmayr center pole double chair which we rode separate.
We then proceeded over to the front face of the mountain riding the six pack and then cruising cold Springs , a 1 mile easy run over to the lunch prepared for us by Ted Reilly and Jim Dawson at the pick up truck with the grill burning at the bottom of the Meadows chair by the ski patrol. Conrad went off independently on a picture taking single extravaganza and proceeded to blow our minds away with a total day count of 919 photos.
We sucked down some excellent venison kill bossa or bratworst and Conrad inhaled a 1/3 pound venison burger in a matter of moments. We then got Ibrake4tbars back to the lodge where he ended his short-lived day. It was just good to ski a couple hours with Ibrake4tbars and Conrad and then I went off with Jim and Ted and we made numerous runs down the front face from the Super Bowl across the and then over to devils dive and made some runs there which is the steepest run in that area of the mountain I have not done it in ten years. All in all it was a great day at the mountain
We all stayed in a very nice suite which accommodated all five of us very easily with the kitchen and Ibrake4tbars made his famous fondue and we all sat at the table and drank some wine and just relaxed and hit the hot tub and shared many stories
The decision was made for Conrad and Ciscokid to ski the Highlands on Sunday to continue Conrads photo opportunities with the old lifts there which were the first triple in the world ,first detachable liftin Michigan and three center pole Riblet quads. Ted and Jim went to Nubs Nob. Ibrake4tbars rested his knee and we were done in 3 hours. We got an early start back home because of a ice storm expected and did not want to chance not getting Conrad back to the airport so we got home Sunday evening.all in all a great two day adventure
Conrad
Conrad with Nubs in backround
Center pole quad
Ted at top of BM
Devils dive
Ibrake4tbars and Jim in Super Bowl CPQ
Conrad ready to suck down Jims venison burger
Masterchef James Dawson
Delilah venison brat
Ted, Jim and a old Mt Holly patroller friend, and Ibrake4tbars
Conrad and Ibrake4tbars
Ibrake4tbars
Comments
Thanks for the report
Ask my wife when we all watched the dismount on the first Hemlock chair lift ride the profanity and grunting and whatnot was repeatedly played and it was overwhelmingly demonstrated that Ciscokid was at fault almost causing Ibrake4tbars loss of life and limb!
Conrad took the 919 saturday, he will be putting them on remontees mechaniques( spell)
Don't know how many Sunday
Ted said the crowds were sparse at Nubs also I believe
Conrad do we have a pic count from Sunday at the Highlands?
I’ll ski there again, no question about it.
IBRAKE
Sure wish Ibrake4tbars had the opportunity to ski Nubs, he seemed to be a big Riblet fan unlike ski_it, the butter like grips are a strong selling point.
I would have liked to see 200 or so of Conrads pics of Nubs colored lifts
http://www.boyne.com/x1880
I believe the TOP NOTCH DOUBLE HERON was on the current Borvig/ Riblet Boyneland triple if I were a betting man. Being it was removed in 2005 we should be able to confirm this
The Meadows CONVEYOR LOADING quad was built about 10 yrs ago slightly further down the hill to the south closer to Super bowl. The original Heron FIRST QUAD IN THE WORLD was very close to the ski patrol shack
http://www.skilifts.org/old/images/resort_images/mi-boynemt/boyneland/boyneland.htm
http://www.boyne.com/boynemountain/media/history
Look at the chair closely, I would say it was early conversion to a double replacing the original Sun Valley single, AGREE? Obviously the unloading area further up than it is now Ibrake4tbars
and the Eagles Nest on left
Boyne Mountain had FIVE DOUBLES at one time, I need help finding OLD TRAILMAPS, MAPNUT?
This map solves it thanks Ted, Express double, Victor used to be double, and North Boyne was a double now the Boyneland Borvig triple
Looks to have had a double lift in the Super Bowl to left of "NEW "Super Bow lift
Conrad now we know why Macgully is closed all the time ( or most of), if average height skiers are on lift you'd have to litterally be a midget to ski under them
Like doorway I can always tell how old a lift is by how much I have to duck, with or without go pro
OK TED, now we need OLD TRAIL MAPS FRIM THE HIGHLANDS
https://skimap.org/SkiAreas/view/407
Hey they had s HEMLOCKtrail here too
Adk correct me if I'm wrong, aren't you the one who serve/ served in the military?( and may have been injured, if so thanks for serving and protecting our freedom)
Would love to see reports if able from adirondack areas if that is your forte.
Conrad, I see your name attached to a couple of maps particularly interesting the 1967 w the old Harbor Highlands.
I can't figure out the '85 one
Boyne Highlands- Macgully or Heather( Conrad or Ibrake4tbars need help) FIRST TRIPLE IN WORLD 1963
Other lifts Ramshead Centerpole quad 1969
super bowl 1973
Additions or corrections?Victor
Hemlock
On that one map Thunder chair? From Thunder mountain that Kercher bought?
Don't know if Quebec will ever be in my itinerary although the city and the Fairmont hotel interests me but not my pocket book. Le Massif always intrigued me. We got enough 4-600 vert hills here.
Proud to have something in Michigan that drew a Maine native and Vermont resident here.
And we had fondue!