Before high speed lifts.

We had this. Pic had 1987 on the back.

Thanks for sharing!  
1987 was a great year

36 minutes bottom to top, time for a sandwich, a beer and a joint. But I never did that. When did it open? I was guessing 1964

Nice pic Raymo!  Anyone else with old pics postem.

demersal wrote

36 minutes bottom to top, time for a sandwich, a beer and a joint. But I never did that. When did it open? I was guessing 1964

I think/thought the Gondi took 18 minutes to the top?

Gondi was built 1967.

Remember the mid station with the cable switch? I can't say I've seen anything like that anywhere else.

Ok one more. Stowe 1988. Spruce peak I believe.

This was another great day in paradise...

I_BUILD_PARKS wrote

Remember the mid station with the cable switch? I can't say I've seen anything like that anywhere else.

IIRC, the original Killington gondola did.

Raymo40 wrote

We had this. Pic had 1987 on the back.

Anyone have any idea what part of the hill this is ? Above the Sunway terminal ? Tho the foreground looks kind of flat for that.

That picture is not of the Red Gondola at Gore.  It is the original Killington Gondola.  It was installed in 1968 and 1969 by Carlevaro and Savio and was ready for the 69-70 season.  It was a 4 passenger gondola that ran in 3 stages.  The first stage ran from the Route 4/Skyeship Base to the Northbrook station.  There, it made a turn and ran to the top of Skye Peak.  At Skye Peak, it made another turn and ran to the top of Killington Peak.  It was the first gondola in the world to have doors that opened and closed automatically.

This gondola was retired in spring of 1994 and removed that summer.  The lower two stages were replaced by the current Skyeship Gondola built by Poma.  The new gondola opened in December of 1994.  The Skye Peak to Killington Peak stage Poma built that in 1998 as the K1 Gondola which replaced the old K Double.

The picture was taken on the lower stage.  It is just before you go up the steep hill before the flat portion leading to the midstation.

The kid's a walking liftopedia.  Thanks Sno !

Snowballs wrote

The kid's a walking liftopedia.  Thanks Sno !

Lifts are my specialty.  

Snowballs wrote

Raymo40 wrote

We had this. Pic had 1987 on the back.

Anyone have any idea what part of the hill this is ? Above the Sunway terminal ? Tho the foreground looks kind of flat for that.

Yo, SB,

Pretty sure the ridge we be lookin' at is now known as Topridge.  Back in the day it was also known as YFN, to hike and ski it, then trudge to the original Tannery and slog to the Base.  Maybe Sno would like to replicate that misadventure?

Whadda'ya think?

64er, the picture everyone is talking about is not a picture from Gore as I said earlier.  It is from Killington.  Here is another picture of that lift.  Note the similar cabin and tower design.  The cabins in the picture are orange, not red.  Killington's original gondola was orange, Gore's was red.



Gore gondola towers look like this.  The ones in the original picture have the structure narrowing down right up to the crossarm.  The structure is also narrower to begin with.  The Gore towers have the structure finish narrowing off several feet below the crossarm.  The structure starts out much wider and narrows down much sharper.  Notice this difference.



The Killington cabins look like this.



The original Gore cabins look like this.



Don't the cabins in the original picture look much more like the Killington one?  I doesn't matter what everyone thinks, that lift is from Killington and I know that 100%.  You're going to make yourselves look like fools talking about what location that is at Gore when it is actually Killington.

Take it easy Sno. Don't go all Loco.

In that last pic,,,,, is that a young Harv ?