fantastic, just saw it via their twitter feed. Check the restaurant service, far superior than today sadly (i suspect this is universally true!). Great footage - we should refer all winter tyre threads to this link
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?
"one of the most developed ski areas in the world and that's a fact"
nostalgia for the White Lady chair, only been a couple of times but not since it was replaced
Then you can post your own questions or snow reports...
Then you can post your own questions or snow reports...
In the first one, is that someone going up the tbar on a ski-bike at about 3.15 in?
After all it is free
After all it is free
And how did they get off the sideways chair lift?
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stephen buck wrote:
And how did they get off the sideways chair lift?
You threw yourself into the net that you see in one part of the film
Ski the Net with snowHeads
Ski the Net with snowHeads
That button lift at 6 mins 13 secs is just nuts.
I like the sideways chairlift though - be good for snowboarding
In fact I think the skiers should have been riding it with the ski's attached.
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stephen buck, I remember the sideways chairlift in the 80s. I can't remember any problems getting on or off.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
stephen buck, me neither, you just stepped off at the top station. You are not wearing the skis remember! I was told that the sideways lift was also considered the best option for the weather as well
I liked it but the queuing at the weekends was horrendous although well ordered and quite entertaining once you got joking about it!
So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much
So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much
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And how did they get off the sideways chair lift?
The chairlift was detachable, decades before they bacame fashionable in France
An exactly similar chairlift by Maag of Zurich used to run up the First from Grindlewald.
Originally you could take the same chair from just above the Cas car park right up the Ptarmigan cafe atv 3,600' via the middle station at the Shieling. Eventually they put the White lady upper section on the roof to avoid having to dig the door out.
Picture here:
There are a few more details about the lift on the Lift-World site. I had forgotten that the lift was detachable. Indeed, I wouldn't have believed it so early (1961) but the Lift-World site does say it is detachable (although wikipedia claims the first detachable lift was built in 1981 - maybe that was only Doppelmayr's models).
At first, after the upper section was built in 1961, the lift only ran from the Shieling to the Ptarmigan (though the restaurant wasn't there at the start). The lower section, saving the walk up from the car park, was built in 1967. As Peter S says, after that you could ride through all the way, until the changes were made at the middle station in the late 70s.
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
In those days jumpers were baggy and the pants were tight - now we have snowboarding.
I can definitely confirm the White Lady and Car Park Chairlifts were detachable, I have one of the grips. Which incidentally weighs an absolute ton, more than an actual chair from the lift!
The grip itself had a spring pack, the main body of the grip, the closing/opening part and a cog which turned a 'screw', there were also two small wheels which took the carriers through the chairlift station on a guide rail (with sections of rail which moved about to guide the chairs into and out of storage). The lifts used rack rails to attach the chairs to and remove them from the haul rope. Going out of the station a bank of wheels, rubber bands and chains increased the carrier from stationary to line speed, before the carrier guide rail dropped the chair down to level with the haul rope, the cog would then engage the rack rail to apply the grip to the line.
The rack rail was above the cogs going out of the station (tightening the grips) and below the cogs coming into the station (detaching the grips). There are GMD gondolas in operation using the same system, but with two of these grips per carrier. Apart from the carriers themselves a 4 person GMD gondola is identical to the old chairlift on CairnGorm.
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?
Always nice to see some old-style skiing.
Youtube then linked me to this, which I hadn't seen before:
FAQ
Poster: A snowHead
