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The Canadian resort of Blue Mountain will probably hate me for using the term, but its new open-air gondola looks remarkably like the near-extinct bucket lifts of the Alps (last one I saw was in Alpe d'Huez, and there used to be one at Courchevel 1300 if memory serves me right).
As I understand it, the open-air cabins replace chairs or enclosed gondolas (not sure which) on an existing ski lift for summer use. An interesting idea.
By the way, if it has seats it's not a classic bucket lift!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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David Goldsmith, There are bucket lifts just like that at Tremblant to get you from the carpark to the main lifts. I know the one at Alpe d'Huez which looks so antiquated in comparison with the rest of the lift system. Flaine still has one which you have to race after and jump up on, but once you get going it seems to be soooo sloooowwwwww. They officially call it the "yoghurt pots" and that's what the ESI ski school tell you to meet for private lessons! Flaine also officially term one of their gondolas "the egg". Someone has a sense of humour I suppose.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Les Menuires has a / some "yoghurt pot" lift(s)...
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I suppose it will be cooler than a perspex bubble and easier to take photographs without the 'haze' of 'glass' crazed by ski tips, boards, finger prints, graffiti and whatever. Aren't there still 'yoghurt pots' lifts somewhere in France ? Alpe d'Huez I think ?????
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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A few of the smaller resorts too, such as Val d'Allos in the southern French Alps...
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Take a pair of skis (which have built-in shovels, remember) in one, and you've got a bucket-and-spade lift.
That's my joke output for the day.
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There is still a bucket lift in Courchevel 1850, but I have never seen it in use!
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David Goldsmith, can you guarantee us there will be no more of what you call "jokes" today? 
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Wear The Fox Hat, yes, and I can offer you a Dixons 3-year extended guarantee for a stupid amount of money if you'd like total peace of mind.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Ideal for those small, back-garden ski jumps.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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How do you know it's not full of cherries?
Also, you'll concede that my (actually not mine, it's been sold to someone else) bucket lift goes a bit higher than the average cherry tree.
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You know it makes sense.
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Ther are yoghurt pots at flaine and at Aple d'Huez in France, and Panorama in Canad also has one, although there it;'s only for getting from the carpark to the base of the slopes and doesn;t serve any slkiing
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Also one at The Canyons in Utah. It really does make sense for bike access.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Chris Reed, David Goldsmith, we learnt to ski in Flaine, it was hilarious trying to run onto the 'yogurt pots' in ski boots, carrying skis. etc. Hurling yourself on was exhausting. Most of our group managed to fall .
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Is this how Ski yoghurts got their name?
What foodstuff should be branded 'Snowboard'? [willful thread diversion]
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Cadbury's Chocolate Fingers? (in honour of the pinky that went astray in Aspen...)
I have ridden a bucket lift here:
http://mcecom.intrawest.com/photosMain.aspx (3rd shot across, top row)
- except in the North American ski industry it's now known as a "cabriolet".
And I also remember PG's "telebenne" (correct French name?) in Foux d'Allos (didn't know it was still there).
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In Alpe d'Huez they 'lovingly' refer to their's as the 'Lobster Pots' - much quicker (& warmer) to walk up/ski down.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| And I also remember PG's "telebenne" (correct French name?) in Foux d'Allos (didn't know it was still there). |
Still there last year, though I wish I had a photo, they're beginning to look so prehistoric that even the cash-strapped Allos resort will have to replace them one day soon.
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Martin Bell, Yes the one at Tremblant is called a cabriolet too. Sounds so much more snazzy than a bucket lift don't you think?
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Sounds better than 'lidless dustbin' lift, too.
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I'm not so sure. It sounds a bit 80s poseurish, to me.
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Reminds me of the old joke - "What do you call a Skoda Cabriolet ?"
A skip. ( = dumpster in US )
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Yes, the opne inf FLaine is called the Telebenne too.
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