We’re back with a new regular series: Schweitzer, From Google Earth. In this series, we’ll look at a new area of the mountain every time, sharing bits and pieces about Schweitzer’s past and present, from through the snow.
Today, we look at a portion of the mountain below Siberia which used to be the top station of a chairlift: Chair Six/Snow Ghost. You see, the lift was moved in 198x in order to access new terrain, including Kaniksu and the chutes, but also every run now serviced by the quad. At that time there wasn’t a lift there, just a t-bar that was seldom even used due to snow depth. Before Chair Six was moved to its present location, this was where it terminated. It serviced minimal runs and was thus moved in 198x. It was the only lift that wasn’t SBNO (standing but not operational) that serviced all of these runs for three to five years, until the Great Escape Quad was installed in 1990. It became Schweitzer’s flagship chairlift, serving roughly three quarters of the terrain on the mountain.
That’s why it would be interesting to go to this point on the mountain, and look for evidence that there was a chairlift here. If you go, send me pictures: “agillrules@yahoo.com”.
