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__Moving Upward in Skiing
____Ski Lift Mobile
_______Six Decades of Ski Lift Technology
Vermont has always been a leader in the implementation of the latest in uphill skiing transportation. This mobile consists of a sampling of the very first of several types of ski lifts used in Vermont from 1934 to the present. Each example is believed to the one of the actual lifts from the ski area in which it was first installed in the State.
Lift Type
Ski Area
Location
First Used
Manufacturer
J-Bar
Bromley
Peru
1940
Rope tow
Gilbert’s Hill
Woodstock
1934
Model T Ford/Homemade
Single Chair
Stowe
Stowe
1940-41
American Steel and Wire
T- Bar
Pico Peak
Mendon
1940-41
Constam/Roebling
Poma
High Pond
Hubbardton
1950+/-
Poma
Double Chair
Stowe
Stowe
1954
J. A. Roebling
Gondola (3 person)
Sugarbush
Warren
1958-59
Carlevaro & Savio
Gondola (6 person)
Killington
Killington
1969-70
Carlevaro & Savio
Triple Chair
Pico Peak
Mendon
1970-71
Hall
Quad Chair
Killington
Killington
1979-83
Yan
Vermont Ski Museum - Exhibit Photos displayed below:
Tuesday, February 19th
John Allen: The Culture and Sport of Skiing: From Antiquity to World War II
