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I thought I read somewhere that there used to be 12mph one in NZ but this looks even faster. Have a look at around 2m 40s.


http://youtube.com/v/wVR5Ce6PVok?t=2m40s
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I've never used one but I've read that some of the n z rope tows are as fast as a high speed chair ie. 6 m per second or 13 mph.

Our home made rope tows in the Pennines were never that fast and we moved away from them basically because we got fed up having to dig the rope out after a blizzard. How do they get around that in NZ or do they wind the rope in each night?

I can see that for a club set up a rope tow still makes sense eg the lowthert hills club although there are now more second hand overhead lifts available eg. The sheiling tow from cairngorm or the old meall odhar tbar from glenshee.
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The Lecht used portable wire tows for at least the first winter, I don't remember them being as fast as in the video.

I did wonder whether the video had been scanned at a slightly different frame rate from when it was originally shot.
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rjs wrote:
The Lecht used portable wire tows for at least the first winter, I don't remember them being as fast as in the video.

I did wonder whether the video had been scanned at a slightly different frame rate from when it was originally shot.


The skiers and their actions seem to be normal speed.
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