Looks vaguely like the old main T-bar at Snow Ridge in Turin, N.Y.! However, the lodge design and position relative to the lift base look wrong, as does the small hill behind the parking lot, so........hmm.
Those t’s are Roebling makes (the hangers give it away) but the towers and sheaves sure look like Hall.
Pretty sure this is 100% Hall. Most very early Hall T-bar installs had those straight sided hanger arms as well. It seems like the crescent shaped arms were a later design, and got retrofitted onto earlier lifts at some point.
My only other guess is that the lift make is a Constam, one of the later models. Hall borrowed and improved upon the Constam design following the patent expiration or Hall’s assumption of the patents, as I recall.
Yup I'm a big sneaker and yes I'm trying to sell a snowjournal gathering
That's why I posted the link to the get together that mentions Holiday Valley, unfortunately I couldn't link directly to a specific post so the thread loads with rbolger's bumper stickers.
Hence why I then posted a request to Bartholomew, our Admin, to look into that feature. I guess my sneaky ways were not noticed...
:-/
You ski because even if you don't do it well, it's still a blast....
Tannenbaum-- that's the old Upper Area Warming Hut--- Cal, with the battle axe used to be the lift attendant.
The old Middle Chalet was two stories with a deck on the second story and the picnic area-- the Broken Ski Pub on the lower level. The parking lot to skier's right of the lodge in the photo stretched all the way down to just above the Middle Chalet and was connected by a small road that could be closed to keep people from sliding down into the stream by the old garage, where the Freestyle Center and Patrol Room are now.
The shack over that way is the top of the Sugar Plum Rope Tow as well. That had the coolest and most intricate base set up with the rope coming on high and going through a Rube Goldberg series of pulleys made out of old automobile rims until it dropped down to ground level to have you pulled out of your boots by the rope. It was FAST.
"Making ski films is being irresponsible with other people's money, in a responsible sort of way..." <div>Greg Stump</div>
The second Cisco is the new Main Lodge--- That's Cindy's Slope Quad in the foreground and Mardi Gras in the background going up skier's left. Buchan Ridge is behind.
Family friend used to own that land--- bought it in the fifties. Sat on it for years and years until a developer approached him in the 80's, Bud later showed me mother and father with a grin one of the checks with two comma's in the figure!
"Making ski films is being irresponsible with other people's money, in a responsible sort of way..." <div>Greg Stump</div>
Tannenbaum-- that's the old Upper Area Warming Hut--- Cal, with the battle axe used to be the lift attendant.
The old Middle Chalet was two stories with a deck on the second story and the picnic area-- the Broken Ski Pub on the lower level. The parking lot to skier's right of the lodge in the photo stretched all the way down to just above the Middle Chalet and was connected by a small road that could be closed to keep people from sliding down into the stream by the old garage, where the Freestyle Center and Patrol Room are now.
The shack over that way is the top of the Sugar Plum Rope Tow as well. That had the coolest and most intricate base set up with the rope coming on high and going through a Rube Goldberg series of pulleys made out of old automobile rims until it dropped down to ground level to have you pulled out of your boots by the rope. It was FAST.
Tannenbaum-- that's the old Upper Area Warming Hut--- Cal, with the battle axe used to be the lift attendant.
The old Middle Chalet was two stories with a deck on the second story and the picnic area-- the Broken Ski Pub on the lower level. The parking lot to skier's right of the lodge in the photo stretched all the way down to just above the Middle Chalet and was connected by a small road that could be closed to keep people from sliding down into the stream by the old garage, where the Freestyle Center and Patrol Room are now.
The shack over that way is the top of the Sugar Plum Rope Tow as well. That had the coolest and most intricate base set up with the rope coming on high and going through a Rube Goldberg series of pulleys made out of old automobile rims until it dropped down to ground level to have you pulled out of your boots by the rope. It was FAST.
Bmwskier, hope you can make it in January, we will try to arrange the weekend around you and Woody and ibrake, hope you can show us around and reminisce and tell stories of the old days of yore at HV
Absolutely! I will try and digitize all of the old super eight film I have from my parents taken when we were growing up that includes the old lifts, and other things we did as well.
"Making ski films is being irresponsible with other people's money, in a responsible sort of way..." <div>Greg Stump</div>
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arms as well. It seems like the crescent shaped arms were a later
design, and got retrofitted onto earlier lifts at some
point.
As far as make or brand that's up to you guys to figure out.
All I know is where and when.( no longer running, has been replaced)
And Ted you stay out for now
I don't know brand
I don't do facebook
Modern version/addition to lodge courtesy of Mr Reilly
rhttps://www.holidayvalley.com/about/history/history/
I'm trying to find a old HV trail map
https://www.holidayvalley.com/upload/photos/page_587_history_time_line.pdf
The shack over that way is the top of the Sugar Plum Rope Tow as well. That had the coolest and most intricate base set up with the rope coming on high and going through a Rube Goldberg series of pulleys made out of old automobile rims until it dropped down to ground level to have you pulled out of your boots by the rope. It was FAST.