 Poster: A snowHead
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...they just keep swinging over garden decks and patios.
Mount Southington, a little ski area in Connecticut, is the latest to retire its old wooden chairlift for something that needs less maintenance and goes faster. The old chairs have been selling for $100 apiece. If memory serves me correct the chairs off the old Cairngorm Carpark and White Lady lifts in Scotland were sold for £50 a go (and they were rarities, being sideways-on low-speed detachables made in Switzerland in the early 1960s.)
Anyone know anyone who's bought one of these antiques for the garden? I wish I had!
[Report on the Mount Southington chairlift from record-journal.com.
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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, where do you get all this stuff from? I am amazed at the encyclopaedic knowledge you are able to bring to this forum!
You ought to write a book about skiing esoteria, I'd buy it for starters!
Well, now I'm going to test you out: do you know anything about skiing in the old USSR? Did Soviet Socialist Realism have any propaganda about skiing?
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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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I think that dodgy wee shop/restraunt has a couple on the way up to the cairngorms, could be wrong though but still worth a stop if just for a greasy breakfast and a bleather with the women that work there.
Check it out or www.theteuchterlads.co.uk until the season starts again. 
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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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...they just keep swinging over garden decks and patios.
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Or they get bought by other resorts... for example if you ski the la Grave off piste domain you may notice a new Chancel chairlift, this has been put in to assure skiing at the start and end of the season when snow cover is no longer enough to ensure a return to the intermediate station. You may also recognise this chair as the old Bouquetins chair from Val Thorens.
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David Goldsmith, yes, I know a few people who bought the Cairngorm chairs and unfortunately want to keep them.
They went on sale at £50 when I was on holiday and I was too late to get one. A very enterprising blacksmith was converting them to garden swings, for a charge of course.
The chairs were detachable and in the early years when arriving at the middle station, you could opt to get off or stay on and be transferred through to the top section connected by a series of overhead rails.
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handyman, I reckon they were snapped up quite snappily because I made quite a snappy enquiry but never received a reply from Cairngorm.
Transporting one down to London would have cost a bomb, though!
For the benefit of those who never rode the old Cairngorm chairs, this is what they looked like.
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