For the Love of the T-Bar

[Woodski12]

Plenty of fun unless you are skiing with someone that is way taller than you. Enjoy have the bar dig into your back the whole time.

 

[Warp daddy]

TBars .....Nope ,ain't gonna happen

 

[Milo Maltbie]

T-Bars Aren’t A Relic Of the Past, They’re The Future

At a fraction of the cost to install and operate, these surface lifts serve curious beginners and seasoned lifers alike.

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Also, there's gotta be a ski area/town bar called the T-Bar, right? If not there sure should be!

T Bar at steamboat. Ski in ski out too.

mm

 

[raisingarizona]

For small, independent ski areas they make a lot of sense imho. Especially if it's a windy place or has a lot of treeless alpine terrain.

 

[MarzNC]

Powder Mountain has a poma lift. Not likely to ever be replaced by a chairlift. It's what I think of as a "transportation lift" that has relatively little uphill pitch.

Then there is the poma at the top of Snowmass.

The steepest poma I've ever been on is at Howelsen Hill in Steamboat Springs. The chairlift (only has one) doesn't run midweek. There was a young adult beginner who was having a very hard time staying on even before getting to the start of the uphill. Her BF made the mistake of going up first so he had no idea what was happening. She was stubborn enough to keep trying. But on the way up she got off at the first open "gate," which accessed the middle of the black trail from the top. When I got to the top, I told the BF where she was. He skied down and helped her walk over to the blue trail. She'd only skied once before on a weekend when the chairlift was running.

 

[D.B. Cooper]

If you have skied at Jay, you might have ridden the Jet Chair. Imagine the Jet T-Bar, steep and unforgiving. As a teenager, I would ride that with my ski school buddies and we would sometimes pull the T from under the bum of an unsuspecting rider. A kind if bowling alley effect would ensue. Good times.

Some of those lines from the hangar were really short. I remember being airborne lots of times. You had to look at the hangar number to prep for what was coming.

T-Bar 70 at Saint Sauveur

 

[2000yroldskier]

Has anyone mentioned Castle Mt. T-Rex is aboot 1500 vert. and apre in THE T-BAR bar.

 

[SudsNBumps]

I miss Bobcat at Andes How long were theirs

 

[x10003q]

I miss Bobcat at Andes How long were theirs

3500ft long about 900vert ft
Platty was about 3000ft long and about 950vert ft. the Platty line seemed to be much steeper than the Bobcat line.

 

[Harvey]

What's the horizontal at the North Creek Ski Bowl?

Not listed here:

Gore Mountain, NY

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