Skiing Trivia

newpylong

Brodie?

joshua_segal

Newpylong gets the next question. Brodie it was in the early 70s. It was around Columbus Day. Just Gramps chair was running and the line went halfway up the hill. (It was free!) Went back the next day hoping for a few uncrowded turns (with or without lift) and it had pretty much melted away.

newpylong

Wow didn't know that. I grew up skiing at Brodie but didn't start until the mid 80s. By then Jiminy has started to already pull ahead in snowmaking, etc.

My question will stay in that area. What type of lift served the summit of Brodie for a few seasons until the "Dot's chair" went in? The liftline was still an active trail until the end.

Bonus question: Next door Jiminy had 3 similar double chairs for quite a long time. Name the chairs and manufacturer.

joshua_segal

They didn't run it very often, but it was a T-Bar. BTW, it was very long for a very little vertical.

Remski

newpylong;c-36620 wroteWow didn't know that. I grew up skiing at Brodie but didn't start until the mid 80s. By then Jiminy has started to already pull ahead in snowmaking, etc.

My question will stay in that area. What type of lift served the summit of Brodie for a few seasons until the "Dot's chair" went in? The liftline was still an active trail until the end.

Bonus question: Next door Jiminy had 3 similar double chairs for quite a long time. Name the chairs and manufacturer.

Snowmaster

Exhibition and Grand Slam are Riblets. They have Riblet triples, and the original summit chair was a Mueller. I don't think there is or was a trio of doubles like you describe.

Treilly

newpylong;c-36620 wroteWow didn't know that. I grew up skiing at Brodie but didn't start until the mid 80s. By then Jiminy has started to already pull ahead in snowmaking, etc.

My question will stay in that area. What type of lift served the summit of Brodie for a few seasons until the "Dot's chair" went in? The liftline was still an active trail until the end.

Bonus question: Next door Jiminy had 3 similar double chairs for quite a long time. Name the chairs and manufacturer.

Jiminy had the Grand Slam double,Novice chair and Exhibition Chair, they were all double center poll Ribilets. Also the Novice and Exhibition lifts shared the same lift towers until the Novice lift reached the top of the 180 trail and the Exhibition lift had a 3/4 unload station at Merry Go Round that was used at night when Jiminy did not have lights at the summit

newpylong

Correct - Brodie's summit was served by a 2500' T-Bar for at least one season until Dot's was built, and then stuck around for a bit after. The trail became O'Connell's Run and was a great way to get from the top back to the Gramp's area, albeit no snowmaking or lights. When Jiminy bought Brodie they built the summit snowmaking pond in the middle of this trail, but we able to reroute it around the pond using a very narrow strip.

For Jiminy - Treilly has it. 180, Exhibition and Grand Slams center pole doubles. The majority of my skiing Jiminy was mid week in the early 90s and I used to love when they had the exhibition chair running, as it was much faster than the Summit Triple. It also made getting to Left Bank (a young kid's favorite run) much easier. Back then they also used to make snow on Upper Exhibition which IMHO is the toughest run besides Upper Liftline. Certainly narrower.

joshua_segal

So who gets the next question? Go for it either snowmaster or Treiley: I've had 2-questions already.

Snowmaster

One lift manufacturer has suffered three very different accidents in the U.S. while Snowjournal has been around. Give us the lifts and their maker, please?

rickbolger

Macomber and Dodge later built Wildcat, interesting coincidence. I suspect there was a lot of shortcuts taken in the early years of ski racing on those long CCC trails

jgreco

Snowmaster;c-36628 wroteOne lift manufacturer has suffered three very different accidents in the U.S. while Snowjournal has been around. Give us the lifts and their maker, please?

Borvig
Sugarloaf: King Pine 2015
Sugarloaf: Spillway East 2010
Tussey: Utah Quad 2017

newpylong

If Borvig, add Sunday River Spruce Triple - 2016

NewEnglandSkier13

Don't forget the Granite Gorge incident where the chair slid back.

Snowmaster

And the crossarm dismount at Timberline, WV. They've had a worse decade than I remembered. One of you two go for it!

jgreco

I nominate NewEnglandSkier13 to be the next Trebek.

NewEnglandSkier13

There is one standing chairlift in New England that was not built by a regular aerial lift manufacturer. What lift is it, and what company made it?

tedede

NewEnglandSkier13;c-36636 wroteThere is one standing chairlift in New England that was not built by a regular aerial lift manufacturer. What lift is it, and what company made it?

MRG - Single - American Steel and Wire

lotsoskiing

Duckling at Sunapee? Roebling..I knew they built bridges and made cable, don't know of other chairlifts

mapnut

Also the double at Eaton Mountain, standing but not operating, was built by Cianbro Construction.

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