IBRAKEFORTBARS;c-50125 wroteThe chain link lift has chairs and they can be seen in the pic; they’re very low to the ground. I skied Mount Snow in 1992 and the Mixing Bowl chain link chairlift was still standing.
Here is a pic of a chain drive chair that went from Mt Snow to Caberfae Peaks
Not every improvement went as planned, however. What was to be the resort's first chair lift was purchased from Mt. Snow, Vermont in 1957. Set up along the west side of the Number One run, the 2,000 foot, 104 bench double chair was not a typical cable lift, but instead utilized a series of chain conveyors (and was in fact called a "conveyor lift"). In addition to being very slow and incredibly noisy, the overhead chains spewed greese on the skiers riding on the chairs. Making matters worse, a poor design caused many of the metal parts to warp over the off-season. After running for the 1959-60 season, the chair was dismantled and sent back to the manufacturer.
