This thread needs a picture. Top terminal of #23 @ Mammoth.
Replaced in the mid 90s by a slightly longer fixed grip quad it has a slower than normal drive system (its a long story) and takes 22 minutes bottom to top. It is likely the longest, slowest quad in existence. Most people ride it once and never return so The Burf is loved only by the long time locals as it creates our own private non busy ski area while all the Gorbs are skiing out of the SP village, a couple kms away.
I could probably ski an additional 2 hours with mandatory 22 minute sit down breaks between the runs. My legs are toast after 2 hours of 4 minute 1K laps on a high speed lift when there are no crowds.. Riding a fixed grip lifts with longer sit down breaks increases my ski time and vert skied before calling it a day or taking a very long break inside..
I had a ski buddy who before he quit drinking, cold turkey, used to speed ahead of me down the run so he could swing by the lodge and get a single off sale beer for the The Burf chair ride.
Some places sell beer and burgers/hot dogs at the front of the corral by the base on super busy days.
QFT.I could probably ski an additional 2 hours with mandatory 22 minute sit down breaks between the runs. My legs are toast after 2 hours of 4 minute 1K laps on a high speed lift when there are no crowds.. Riding a fixed grip lifts with longer sit down breaks increases my ski time and vert skied before calling it a day or taking a very long break inside..
There's a triple at Timberline WV that's so sketchy, and not the one that collapsed, that they only load every other chair or only two per chair even though it is a triple Sounds like they should just remove a bunch of chairs and space them farther apart instead of telling people to let every other chair pass for fear of breakdowns..
@jimmy or @JohnL can conform the status. but I think they still light load the Silver Queen when she's got a full corral.Really? Was it running when we were there last year? Because I don't remember ever being told to wait... of course, there weren't any lift lines either so maybe it was just naturally spaced out by the lack of crowds.
True. The Silver Queen was built for Crested Butte, installed at Timberline in the eighties and they hung "triple" chairs on it maybe ten years ago. It used to be a double with a windshield and screen the chairs looked like Darth Vader s helmet.