Belleayre Mountain: Lift 7

[@RealABGamerBoy]

Even since I been to Belleayer I never see this this lift running.

[@ne_skier3832]

I know the guys who run this lift on the regular, they are really nice (Jim and Ray). Jim worked at Highmount and went to Belleayre upon it's closing. He was originally a snowmaker and then converted to a lift operator. He has little recollection of the previous lift there, he thinks it was the first lift running that line although trail maps show a lift there before 1986, not providing a name, just having it vaguely marked as a triple. He was there when the lift first opened, saying that the lines went up expressway and to the bottom of the hill. Now, with Superchief and the gondola, this lift is an "insider's secret", no lines with the best trails (My personal favorite being Utsayantha to Big T Glades). Although no longer the first to open (That title was snagged by the Gondola due to it's ability to service Deer Run top to bottom), it is typically the last to close. There is a rumor circulating that this lift is to be removed and replaced with a high speed quad starting at the previous base of 1 and 2. Hopefully this doesn't happen for obvious reasons.

[@MichaelN12]

Well this will probably a taste of what I’ll be seeing in Breckenridge on Friday, and let us not forget Snowflake. I didn’t realize how weird that grip looked with the jaws being so hard to see.

[@TheLewistownTrainspotter8102]

Riblet grips are woven into the cable.

[@PorterTheFanCollector]

I rode some ski lifts (on the date above) today at Sandia Peak in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

[@ne_skier3832]

Well I did a bit more research and turns out that this lift replaced Lift 3, a Roebling double built some time in the 60s and likely similar to the old Lifts 6 and 7 (Replaced by the Tandem 1&2). In addition to trails serviced by the current Lift 7, it served Algonquin, Peekamoose and Seneca via the Ridge Trail (And so did the current 7 until 1999) which is now abandoned.

[@larstomars8745]

5:03

[@jasonsantasiero8431]

Did you go on the 23 or 24?

[@pinnacleskier0552]

Did you get Tomahawk?

[@collinparsons3363]

Nope. It was closed.

[@pinnacleskier0552]

They need to run it more. Typical ORDA. How redundant is it with the gondola? I’ve heard it’s still very useful for lapping the terrain though.

[@ne_skier3832]

@@pinnacleskier0552 It's good somewhat. There are never lines, but the gondola crowd overpowers the terrain. It's usually an hour after opening until everything is iced up.

[@ne_skier3832]

@@hunterbyron646 Tomahawk was a new 1998 install along with the original Superchief quad

[@mayabojmel5267]

Lift 7 is 100% the longest lift, or tomahawk

[@collinparsons3363]

7 is actually the shortest