How longs a queue?

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47d, 11h, 23m and 43s to the PSB

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47d, 11h, 17m and 23s to the PSB

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gwaelod, Yes. It is sickening to see old blokes on skins overtake underneath. The 1st time I rode it I had to keep checking for a pulse.

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gwaelod that'll be these chairs then Toofy Grin

It is still in daily use and serves 3 purposes. 1. to remind us old folk of how it use to be (esp. the whack on the calf muscle as it sweeps you up) 2. To emphasise how fast the rest of the lifts are. 3 Acces to some excellent off piste and often powder. Very Happy

The Vega chair potters along at 2.1 m/s shifting 1200 persons an hour. In comparison the Arpette 8 man chair hammers along at 5.5 m/s and shifts 3600 persons an hour (Stats from RG's site)

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After all it is free

There is a six-seater Doppelmayr fast-speed chairlift (!) somewhere in the background.
(Jasna-Chopok, Slovakia, December 2005)
OMG, sometimes it takes 40-45 mins to get to this lift.

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kerekip, I'd take up chess and retire from skiing if that was a queue I had to endure too often!

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gwaelod wrote:

boredsurfin wrote:

In comparison the Arpette 8 man chair hammers along at 5.5 m/s and shifts 3600 persons an hour

What a lift snowHead

Nope this is a lift Laughing

7.2 m/s

seem to recall quite a wait at the bottom of the Silverettabhn in Ischgl......

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No photo but the all time best (err worst?) queue I remember was on the Daylodge Poma at CairnGorm, it was either late Dec or early Jan so the days were short. The road to Coire Cas was and remained blocked all day, so everybody that came into the ski area did so by the Ciste Chair. The lifts run till pretty much dusk at that time of year, and they shut down by their usual close down pattern not taking account of the fact that people had to get back to Coire Na Ciste. This funnelled everyone down to the Daylodge where they joined a massive queue for the Daylodge Poma which promptly broke down!! By the time it was going again the queue was the full width of the path and streached from the foot of the Poma back to the Carpark Chairlift station! It was already dark when we joined it! Razz

After watching folk disspearing into the gloom for about 20minutes and making very little progress towards the DLP we wondered what the queue for the Ciste Chair was like so headed of skiing, pushing, then walking down the link road. Never did hear when the last people got up the Daylodge Poma, but they were still solid coming down the Ciste Chairlift at 5pm and it's dark before 4 at that time of year ! Laughing

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I've queued for nearly an hour at the Cime de Caron in VT. That was in March. Been since in January and virtually got straight on .. lesson learned, I now know how long the Mickey Mouse queues take to snake around the fences. Having said that skiing in France in Jan last year in Tignes never came across a single queue other than for the GM funicular and that's really just waiting for it to cycle around. Serre Chevaliar in Feb lots of queues but none really horrific, fast 6 mans each queues! End of March Avoriaz - no queues at all - ski onto the lifts - but c**p weather kept away the fair weather skiiers.

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Hurtle, can't remember how long for Les Grands Montets but seem to recall we had to get a pre-timed ticket so it wasn't that long.

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stevew, I've twice found myself, aux Grands Montets, in that irritating period of time when the lifties reckon that there aren't QUITE enough people around to operate the pre-timed ticket system. It can, it seems, get pretty bad before they do.

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boredsurfin, you need to get over to 2000 and Pre St Esprit for the slowest lift...

When the queue is backed out of the taped area, it is quicker (and this is NOT exaggerating, we have done it on a number of occasions) to wander over to the road, and catch the bus up the hill. Despite the faffing at the top stop, you are back on the slopes in better than even time. With a bus every 30 mins, you'd be very unlucky to take longer at the bus stop + 5 mins travel time, versus queuing for the 3 seat, 15 min lift journey.

Plan Bois going this year is good, but I can't WAIT for St Esprit to go too. Combourciere, of the same era... well AFAI am concerned, that can stay, as it discourages the unknowing, and leaves that end of the resort empty for the regulars!

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Glad I am not stuck in this lift queue. Makes our moans seem rasther trivial Embarassed

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being a tad claustraphobic that story is a nightmare!!!

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As has been said, the efficiency of American/Canadian lift queue systems is brilliant. They have begun rudimentary attempts to do the same here - why it's not more widely adopted I have no idea. They must get 20 - 25% more people up on busy days.
Having said that the worst queue I've ever been in was over an hour in Whistler on the only powder day in a fortnight.

Last time I cracked was as a man blatantly shouldered past me in a narrow line for a T bar lift in Tignes. It was the last straw in a day of many queue-jumpers, and I said "excuse me, there's a queue!". He stopped and waited behind me while I felt all self-satisfied and British.

Then I saw him waving at a five-year old girl who was about 6 people ahead and looking thoroughly scared. "Don't worry darling, I'll be there in a minute!"

Embarassed

I apologised and asked him to go through but he wouldn't Crying or Very sad

The embarrassment! Never again!

Scarlet Pimpernel, we've waited a long time there too if we've been unlucky (badly planned) enough to hit it at ski school time. Weird though because almost all of the other lifts in the area are modern, fast and big with hardly any queues at all, so the SB is a bit of an unexpected weak link.

The one time we hit it with no queues, we wanted to ski the deserted pistes back down to the valley when they were all freshly groomed, so we got off at the mid-station and blasted right the way to the village, only we went a bit too fast, because when we arrived at the SB, our liftpasses wouldn't go through the scanner as they were flagged as being reused too often (i.e. as if we had chucked them to a mate in the back of the queue thus avoiding paying)! So lesson to us, ski slower wink

, or don't get off at the mid-station Laughing

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We got a stern interrogation from the lifty who only seemed to relent and believe us when we pointed out H's pseudo grey hair (black hair with lots of snow in it) from his brief headstand in some deep powder, unachieveable by virtually any other method.

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