 Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I wouldn't feel particularly at ease on that chairlift 
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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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That was what the Pt de l'Au lift (Champoussin) was like until about 3 years ago.
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@OuatteDePhoque, it's what Mt Chery was like last time I was in Les Gets
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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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That pic brings back memories.
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| OuatteDePhoque wrote: |
| That was what the Pt de l'Au lift (Champoussin) was like until about 3 years ago. |
What? Had they put a new one in? It certainly wasn’t side saddle in 1989!
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@under a new name, Maybe not quite that shonky, but certainly along those lines.
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First chairlift I ever went on....!!
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It would be fun to know what the capital investment was to get the two chairs up to the Ptarmigan.
The irony is it "worked", for years and years! Side loaders definitely in a class of their own.
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| I wouldn't feel particularly at ease on that chairlift |
It was state of the art! We knew no other! Also the first chair I ever rode 
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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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Ace. Remember a brilliant April weekend post Easter when the other side of White Lady gully had filled in and there were genuine faceshots to be had on my board. For some reason don't remember the shuffling queue being as bad as usual.
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@OuatteDePhoque, nah, it was just a two seater and a bit old. And slow.
That was my first chair experience, probably in '75 or '76.
Nothing as bad as the old Punta Indren chocolate pots that you literally had to run after and leap into, with skis.
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You know it makes sense.
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Detachable and you could ride the same chair from the car park through the middle station up to the summit. Simple and useful in summer too. The problem was it couldn’t tolerate high winds, but neither can modern chairlifts.
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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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Poster: A snowHead
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From uann's link
".....were unable to see the lift in action - as it has to be still completed. The interior of the White Lady Shieling is also unfinished.."
So, the current problems on Cairngorm are nothing new ..!!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@Dave of the Marmottes, “other side of White Lady gully” The M2?
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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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Wonderful chair - it worked and it got people up the mountain! That's something a multimillion pound funicular doesn't seem to achieve these days.
Cherished memories; the sound of the chairs coming in to the station and the smell of oil (and the sign warning that oil may drip on your clothing - although I never remember it doing so).
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| Peter S wrote: |
| Detachable and you could ride the same chair from the car park through the middle station up to the summit. Simple and useful in summer too. The problem was it couldn’t tolerate high winds, but neither can modern chairlifts. |
Are you talking about the Cairngorm chair here? I don't remember that you could stay on the chair; I'm sure we had to trudge up the steps to the White Lady Chair?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Certainly wasn't scary. We took our boys on that chair when they were 3 and 6 almost 30 years ago. I also took both with me on the T bars at the top. That's what you did then. No carving skis either.
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That's a deluxe model compared to the pizza box 'chair' lifts
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Jan, the second stage was moved onto the roof about the same time they built the M1 Poma circa 1981. This was to avoid having to dig out the lift station at the bottom of the White lady.
Before that you got pushed through the Sheiling station on a series of overhead rails..
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| billb wrote: |
| Certainly wasn't scary. We took our boys on that chair when they were 3 and 6 almost 30 years ago. I also took both with me on the T bars at the top. That's what you did then. No carving skis either. |
So modest
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