Ultimate Ski/Snowboard Interest thread!!!

It did. Worst part was missing out on a expense paid helicopter trip to AK.

 

Hard to beleive it's May

Coverage was amazing. Blue bird and hot.

 

My local mtn is putting in a new chair for next season. As part of that, they sold off about 200 chrs today in about 30 mins.

I got myself 1 of them, and now need to build a frame to hold a triple fixed grip. Plan on building it out of pressure treated 4x4’s.

 

Nice! Double? Triple? Quad?

 

Fixed grip triple with footrest. Any idea what I’m looking at for weight on this thing? The mtn posted all the dimensions, but kept ignoring everybody’s questions of weight. I’m thinking 200-250 as a unscientific guess.

 

I found a page on the ol' interweb that says a quad chairlift is about 350lbs (its from another Resorts sale of their chairs).

 

Yea I found singles and doubles but no triple #’s.

can you imagine a bunch of yrs down the road when mtns start retiring 6packs and people buy those up?

 

This is from Stevens pass, the old Brooks chair

 

Got to hang it now. That one looks super tall.

We have a very similar chair to that at work, that was going to get hung and such. Its been sitting behind the build for yrs....

 

My armchair engineering skill is picturing something similar to a swingset frame. That should probably be sufficient

 

If you can weld, I'd consider removing a section from the bar it hangs from. Otherwise your frame will need to be really tall.

 

This is my basic sketch I made of my initial plans. I’ll build it out of 4x4’s. I need to get actual measurements off the chair(haven’t picked it up yet) but it’s about 9’ tall supposedly.

So about a 6’x6’ base and 11-12’ tall so I can lower the safety bar.

 

Based on your blueprints there, I think it'll require a few more beer supports. Gonna be a cool set up for sure.

 

Last weekend at Mary Jane

 

Barely enough snow for a final tour last Tues

Washington Pass

 

Nice... a blue bird Washington trip! Looks amazing

 

36 days until Mammoth opens.....

 

He wanted to get in "ski shape". So we are...

Banged out 4 14ers Democrat, Bross, Lincoln, and Cameron.... all 4 we will be skiing in just a few short weeks