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[Warren733]

My favorite lift names are interesting ones like Omigosh (stands for Oh my gosh!) Rock Island, and simple ones like Easy Way, Beginner's Luck, and Wolf Creek Hollow.

[Emax]

Bill, on Jan 5 2007, 11:21 PM, said:

Sweeeeeet!

Too bad its not "the real thing"...

BUT, one can only wish...

[SidBurn]

Naked Lady at Snowmass

[Dr Frankenstein]

La tortue (the turtle) at Mont Sainte-Anne. Deserves its name. It's a FG quad surrounded with HSQs a gondola, and relatively fast T-bars.

[k2skier]

Growing up skiing at Mt Hood and Bachelor, I like the color name, blue yellow, black, red......
And when the lifts were painted to match it made it easy to ID them.

Least favorite name, Avalanche, Mt Bachelor.

[liftmech]

Is that the original name for Rainbow or Sunrise?

[LiftTech]

Little Beaver and Big Beaver at Mount Snow always interested me.

[k2skier]

liftmech, on Mar 21 2007, 06:08 AM, said:

Is that the original name for Rainbow or Sunrise?

Sunrise, yes it was, funny no one there remembers it being called Avalanche. Rainbow is the FG triple YAN just to Sunrises East (?), I lose my sense of N, S, E and W at Bachelor for some reason, skiers right.

[SkiBachelor]

Well, the area where the former Avalanche chair was located and current Sunrise lift is an Avalanche corridor. There was an avalanche that terminated just a hundred feet from the top of Sunrise Express last year I believe.

[k2skier]

SkiBachelor, on Mar 23 2007, 03:47 PM, said:

Well, the area where the former Avalanche chair was located and current Sunrise lift is an Avalanche corridor. There was an avalanche that terminated just a hundred feet from the top of Sunrise Express last year I believe.

YEP! Almost every other year I've heard. I guess they didn't want to advertise that fact and gave the lift a "cutsie" name like Sunrise.

[EagleAce]

All our lifts and runs are named for wildlife:

Turtle (slow handle tow, appropriately named!
Bruin (same as the lift)
Badger (same as the lift)
Gray Owl
Chipmunk
Wildcat
Eagle (same as the lift)
Red Fox (same as the lift)
Rabbit
Beaver (used to be a lift there a long time ago)


and I like Solitude at Kirkwood
and of course The Wall

numbers and letters to me are boring

[skierdude9450]

I like Quadzilla at Waterville Valley. It's quite humerous. I'r guessing it's a kids' area. It would be sweet if it had a t-rex. Which reminds me that Timberline Express at Copper is commonly called T-Rex.

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[Jonni]

I kind of go for lifts that are aptly named for their location, usually servicing terrain that relates to their name either in ability level or based on natural features of the terrain:

Heaven's Gate at Sugarbush
Sun Bowl at Sunapee
Devil's Fiddle at Killington
Oz Quad at Sunday River
Timberline at Sugarloaf
Canyon at Killington
Imperial Express at Breck
9990 Express at The Canyons

Of course there are always the memorable ones:
Oh-No Double at Haystack
Quadzilla at Waterville Valley
Flying Bear Express at Attitash
Kancamagus Quad at Loon Mountain

And then there is the plain old run of the mill names:
Summit Quad at Pico, Crotched Mountain, Sugarbush, and many others
Magic Carpet at numerous ski areas
Triple Chair at Jiminy Peak
Double Chair at Whaleback, Moose Mountain, NH ([i[Lost[/i]), etc.
The Tram at Cannon Mountain and Jay Peak

[liftmech]

LiftTech, on Mar 21 2007, 10:31 AM, said:

Little Beaver and Big Beaver at Mount Snow always interested me.

In what way

[liftmech]

Skier, on Dec 29 2006, 11:31 AM, said:

Not a lift, but I didn't want to start a new topic. Did anyone notice that Crystal secretly changed Iceberg Ridge to Upper Ferk's Run this season? Iceberg Gulch is now Middle Ferk's, and Lower Bull Run is now Lower Ferk's Run. The Iceberg names have been around since 1962 when Crystal opened. What the Ferk were they thinking! Of all runs to rename, why those? Who is Ferk anyways?

I answered this somewhere else but I forgot where. Ferk is Steve Ferkovitch, a longtime volunteer patroller who became a full-time pro when he retired from his 'real' job. Thos three runs linked together are his favourite way down at the end of the day. Nice tribute, in my opinion. I enjoyed working with him and thought he was a good guy.

[DonaldMReif]

Skier, on 11 July 2006 - 08:23 PM, said:

There are at least 7 Summit Expresses that I know of:
Alpine Ski Club, Ontario
Buttermilk, Colorado
Keystone, Colorado
Mount Bachelor, Oregon
Mount Sunapee, New Hampshire
Pico, Vermont
Tamarack, Idaho
Keystone, Colorado


Also, there are 17 summit fixed grip lifts:
Berkshire East, Massachusettes
Bighorn, Wyoming
Black Mountain, New Hampshire
Blue Hills, Massachusettes
Kelly Canyon, Idaho
Lake Louise, Alberta
Mansfield Ski Club, Ontario
Panorama, British Columbia
Shawnee Peak, Maine
Silver Star, British Columbia
Snow King, Wyoming
Solitude, Utah
Spirit Mountain, Minnesota
Sugarbush, Vermont
Whiteface, New York
Whitewater, British Columbia
Winterplace, West Virginia

Keystone has the Summit Express and Vail has the likewise named Mountaintop Express, both of which are misnomers since they don't service the highest lift-served terrain at their resorts (that going likewise to the Outback Express and Pete's Express respectively).

Some of the best names in my opinion:
* Storm Peak Express at Steamboat (better since they have graphics painted next to the lift name on the terminals)
* Imperial Express SuperChair at Breckenridge has a redundant name since many places call high speed quads express lifts, or in Breckenridge's case, SuperChairs, but not both

Apologies for digging up such an old thread.

[liftmech]

My favourite lift name is unfortunately not the lift's real 'trail map' name.

[DonaldMReif]

And Keystone has the Montezuma Express lift. It's name is better than the fixed grip quad at Arapahoe Basin (which is just Zuma). I do wonder if Zuma and the Montezuma Express get confused.

[boardski]

How about Gadzoom at Snowbird (a HSQ). I thought that was a clever name instead of "Gad 1 Express" which they could have called it since that's the lift it replaced. I wonder what they will call Gad 2?

[DonaldMReif]

boardski, on 19 September 2012 - 06:03 PM, said:

How about Gadzoom at Snowbird (a HSQ). I thought that was a clever name instead of "Gad 1 Express" which they could have called it since that's the lift it replaced. I wonder what they will call Gad 2?

GadSpeed, maybe?