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New lift in Jochberg by Kitzbühel
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A new lift opened at Jochberg in the Kitzbühel area today. But before the skiing came the celebration party...
... even with oompah music, playing
Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer
- Tyrolean style...
Here's the lift...
Oh, no! That was 49 years ago, Christmas 1964. Now the view up the Wagstätt slope looks like this...
The new lift is a ten-seater gondola with all mod cons, considerably more comfortable and quicker than the single-seat chair and T-bar. Here's another view looking down over Jochberg with the bottom station of the new lift (there are photos of the middle and top stations in my Kitzbühel album
here
)...
I had assumed that the whole Kitzbühel area would be opening today but only the Wagstätt gondola was running in Jochberg, so I couldn't ski to Pass Thurn as I had planned. The run at Wagstätt is a moderately steep red and was already showing mini-moguls from the many skiers out enjoying free use of the lift. Hard work, I found, but an enjoyable piste. Snow was reasonable but largely artificial, I think, and with overcast skies the visibility wasn't good. It was snowing lightly by the end of the afternoon.
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A few of us chatting about how the new lift may affect the business of the restaurant between the chairlift and the T bar. The fact there is a middle station answers the question. I thought that run is brilliant but only skied a tiny number of times in the 8 visits to Kitzbuhel because I despised the chair lift and t bar so much. Looking forward to sampling the gondola in the New Year trip there (3 weeks to go
)
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The Wagstätt Alm at the middle station has been completely rebuilt, I think. However, I wasn't able to get in because there was a
geschlossene Gesellschaft
, a private party there - presumably for folk involved in building the lift.
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Being a relatively new skier I wondered what I was having to get on when I got to the bottom and saw the single man chair. Woke me up with a nice pinch to the back of the legs and then a thought "how does the safety bar work?"
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