Riding the brand new Canyon Express 6 chair ski lift at Mammoth on a foggy Thursday December 22,2023

Mammoth Mountain ski resort installed a brand new state of the art Doppelmayr 6 person ski lift over the summer of 2023 & it just opened last Saturday. It has inside loading & unloading, a conveyor belt for loading, and automatic safety bar with lock.

[@edcook9747]

I got it!! Canyon 6!

[@davidday2373]

Rode this a few weeks ago, didn't realize it was new.

[@marvinacklin792]

I love mammoth! What a great day on the mountain.

[@thedumplingeater]

Love the d-line lifts!

[@JaniMullen]

Your excitement is amusing.. 👍 In Central Europe resorts this has become the standart many years ago. Day tickets in Northern America are incredibly expensive.. it‘s insane 😱

[@peterlubczynski]

Nobody buys day tickets anymore, everyone has a pass. I have 2. Last season, the cost for me to ski turned out to be $39/day.

[@JollyLamaCom]

It's all a part of the push to buy Epic/Ikon passes. There are still good deals to be found, just not at destination resorts anymore.

[@qloxer1264]

Crazy how it went from a foggy day Thursday to beautiful sunny conditions rest of the weekend

[@ddelgado9902]

Never been to Mammoth but wow! In Big Bear, we just got the new pass machines installed instead of the manual checker guy and that blew my mind. Can't believe Mammoth has such new systems, how exciting!! I hope we get more powder soon

[@austinreeves5221]

now you cant give the guy 20$ to let you up in bear

[@kenprice1961]

There are so many people that absolutely can not live without massive crowds, standing in lines and 10 hour traffic jams!!

[@NED07]

those blue pads are from when mammoth hosted the world cup

[@brady3562]

drink every time he says cannon 6

[@spielboy6931]

Imagine how he going to react when he gets on a lift that has a heated seat and a wind protection bubble 🤣

[@rambultruesdell3412]

$300 lift pass

[@linde1456]

LoL we have 50€ lift passes and 170€ week pass and many heated and wind protection pubble chairs @@rambultruesdell3412

[@alfihalma4320]

Kinda crazy that you're so happy about this. This + bubble is kinda normal in the Austrian Alps - and it comes at a 1/3 of a day ticket price. US skiing resorts are quite a rip off. But why?!

[@peterlubczynski]

I’m so happy because this is the first new ski lift at Mammoth in many years & they finished it in time when it didn’t look like they would from the live cam. Park City in Utah has an Orange Bubble chair. I rode it a few years ago & have some video. I’ll try to find it. In the US, everyone buys a season pass (or two). Only those who don’t plan ahead or don’t care about money pay the $299 daily pass cost during the holidays. It cost me $39 a day to ski last year when I average out the cost of my season passes. And I can pay monthly for my passes so the cost is spread over the whole year. How much is a season pass in Europe? How many resorts does it include? I also have included days at several European resorts on my season passes: Zermatt in Switzerland, Kitzbühel in Austria, and the Dolomiti Superski in Italy. France: Les 3 Vallées, Italy: Skirama Dolomiti, Switzerland: Ski Arlberg, and Austria: Skirama Dolomiti I want to take a trip to Zermatt but with the cost of transportation & lodging, I could not find an affordable deal.

[@alfihalma4320]

@@peterlubczynski, yeah, with Ikon Pass and a lot of skiing days, it does make sense. But if you just want to go for a week, which a lot of people in Europe do, it gets pricy even with a season pass, but in Austria it's about 450 USD/week and Switzerland >500 USD/week. There is a season pass for Tyrol (~1150 USD) allowing you into 90 resorts all over Tyrol including famous Ischgl, Sölden & Kitzbühel. But, as I said, you don't need it, if you do just a week. Zermatt is crazily expensive regarding lodging - though most likely the quality might be higher than the average US hotel due to good food and authentic designs. Kitzbühel is likely much cheaper! You'll find hotels with half board (great Austrian food) + sauna for ~ 1300 USD/week. I will test Dolomiti Superski in the coming week. Regarding hotels, it's about the same pricing and quality level as Austria. Feel free to reach out if you need more info. I know the Kitzbühel resort a bit and my beloved Sölden, Serfaus-Fiss-Ladis and Ischgl a bit more...

[@joemclaughlin8657]

They are a ripoff if you buy day pass tickets yes but the vast majority of people do not do that

[@NED07]

because the wind at mammoth would rip bubble chairs off the cable. mammoth gets wind like no where else

[@TheGweedMan]

Did this lift replace the old Chair 16? Looks like it did. I was a lift operator on chair 16 back in the 70's.

[@peterlubczynski]

Yup

[@Ktaurus26]

They replaced the original chair 16 in 94 with a Yan high speed quad and this new one is a six pack

[@DM-hw4cr]

"Lots of snow"...😅

[@rambultruesdell3412]

Is the Canyon Express lift terminal enclosed so fewer people will be harassed for causing a lift stop ??

[@peterlubczynski]

😂

[@user-vy9pe4jq1b]

It's the 16 NOT the 6.

[@peterlubczynski]

6 is the number of people that can ride. The old chair only had 4.

[@1Zerostyler]

bro whats wrong with the prices in Mammoth, 270$ for a daily ticket at the window? even in Switzerland its just around 110$. This is just insane

[@mattyp6908]

Even Whistler (the objectively best mountains in North America) are like ~$230 (CAD)

[@aaronherrera362]

Who buys at the window? It’s not that hard to plan ahead and buy online. Especially on a holiday week, you are begging to get ripped off.

[@1Zerostyler]

@@mattyp6908 still a lot, but much more reasonable than mammoth. I dont understand why they take so much, all of their Equipment is centuries old, except this one new chair theyve got

[@1Zerostyler]

@@aaronherrera362 yes youre right but thats not the point, some people who live in the area that dont go enough to get a season pass like to just spontaneously go for a day. I lived around Modesto in 2016-2017 and the prices raised so much. You guys will laugh but Here in germany i Pay 80$ and everything is state of the art

[@peterlubczynski]

Prices are high because it’s the holiday season. If you want to pay less then you need to ski during the week when it’s not a holiday or you can get a season pass. The season pass is the best way to go, you just need to buy it before the deadline. If you buy in the spring for the following year you can choose the monthly payment plan.

[@TheGoodStuff-wj5bc]

It’s 16

[@macawattackgaming]

It isn’t Canyon 6, it is Canyon 16

[@peterlubczynski]

6 is the number of people that can ride. The old chair only had 4.

[@macawattackgaming]

@@peterlubczynski ah thats what you meant

[@keithc5729]

It's not canyon 6, it's chair 16. Chair 15 and chair 9 have been 6 seaters for years. The only way this chair helps is if people form groups of 5 or 6 before they get on the chair. I see too many chairs going up with only 2 people on them. My hope is that Mammoth changes chair 12 to a quad. There is a lot a area under chair 12, but the chair is too slow.

[@peterlubczynski]

6 is the number of people that can ride. Canyon 4 was replaced with this lift & it really needed to be replaced because it was an old Yan lift that Doppelmayr fixed up but parts were hard to get. Next up for replacement for summer of ‘24 is the Yan Broadway lift. I mostly ski single so the new Canyon 6 chair should make the singles line move much much faster like on Eagle & Cloud 9.

[@TheLewistownTrainspotter8102]

It's both. It's chair 16, but it's also the Canyon 6.

[@keithc5729]

@@TheLewistownTrainspotter8102 No! It is Not Canyon 6. Do you call chair 8 Canyon 3? Do you call chair 2 stump alley 4? When you want to meet your friends at the bottom of chair 9 do you say, meet meet at the bottom of chair 6? It is chair 16. We already have a chair 6, it is just East of Chair one and the gondola. It is a detachable quad.

[@michaelnielsen8407]

73

[@NED07]

dont ruin ch 12. a double suits it just fine.

[@shooter7a]

"There's never going to be a line on this lift, ever..." LOL. Just watch. The idiots that pass for skiers a Mammoth will find a way to screw up boarding and stop the lift every 5 minutes. Rated lift capacity per hour means nothing with morons.

[@Matttski]

americans getting excited about automatic guard....

[@JollyLamaCom]

Hey it's rare for us to be protected at all over here.

[@peterlubczynski]

In North America, the safety bar seldom gets lowered at all. The only people who lower the safety bar are beginners or visitors from another country. In fact, there are some old chairs that don’t even have safety bars.

[@u4ia_]

@@peterlubczynskichair 22 at mammoth doesn’t have a safety bar i believe

[@peterlubczynski]

@@u4ia_ it does now, it was installed recently

[@u4ia_]

@@peterlubczynski kinda traumatized because when i was 10 i fell down that chair because my brothers skis interlinked with mine….

[@samuelsmith9999]

You’re giving Americans a bad name. More. Again. Still. Worse.

[@andrelacouture624]

When you think it cost you over 200 dollars it s insane . At. That price they better have new chairlifts. Tinges Val d Isère 70 dollars